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Debora L. Spar, a 16-year-veteran of the Harvard Business School, will be the 11th president of Barnard College, the New-York-based women’s college announced Tuesday. At 44, Spar is more than two decades younger than her predecessor at Barnard, Judith R. Shapiro. “She’s got a lot of energy, and the room lights up when she walks in,” said Business School professor Janice H. Hammond. “The bulb is a little dimmer without her, as someone put it today.” While...
...you’d rather read “Lolita,” and don’t mind doing it surrounded by reinforced concrete, then you may want to consider Mather’s house seminar on Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, taught by Professor James R. Russell. The course—Mather 77: “Nabokov”—will focus on Nabokov’s life and work using his English-language autobiography and his major literary works...
With Valentine’s Day looming, students looking for a date can turn to OkCupid, the brainchild of three math-savvy alums. Christopher R. Coyne ’99, Sam A. Yagan ’99, and Maxwell N. Krohn ’99, three dorm-mates from Straus Hall, have lead numerous online ventures in the decade since their graduation. In 2004, the trio turned their creative energy to the Internet dating market when they launched OkCupid.com. The rudimentary pairing service, says Coyne, was inspired by a classmate’s software to help seniors seeking their hook...
...while Summers claimed that the Faculty were critical of his original plan for HFAI, Jeremy R. Knowles, a former FAS dean who is known for his fiscal conservatism, said that previous Faculties had made undergraduate financial aid a priority...
...comments made by Jeremy R. Knowles—dean of the Faculty from 1991 to 2002, and again from April to July 2007—about increases in financial aid during his own administration were a defense of both prior faculties as well as prior deans...