Word: scholar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sampson, currently on leave, has served as chair of the Sociology Department for two years. Like Faust, who has only been at the University since 2001, Sampson is a relative newcomer to Harvard. A scholar of crime and neighborhood effects, he spent most of his career teaching at the University of Chicago and was hired by Harvard...
Clayton maintains his stance as a scholar of theism as well as of theoretical biology and neuroscience, seeking to “explore all the areas of tension and sometimes of harmony...
...details of the program.But former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who initiated the curricular review in 2002, encouraged professors to end the discussion. “Everything that can be said has been said, although not everyone has said it.” Kirby, an East Asia scholar, cited a 1924 vote of the Chinese Communist Party: “The motion was passed unanimously although many comrades were opposed.”The curriculum approved yesterday has its foundations in a report released in October by a task force headed by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy...
Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who initiated the curricular review in 2002, encouraged professors to end the discussion. “Everything that can be said has been said, although not everyone has said it.” Kirby, an East Asia scholar, cited a 1924 vote of the Chinese Communist Party: “The motion was passed unanimously although many comrades were opposed...
...Boonyaratglin, is himself a Muslim. With many of the killings involving Muslims targeting Buddhists (although plenty of Muslims have been murdered as well), it's not surprising that sentiment in usually tolerant Thailand is turning hostile. "Ten years ago, it would have failed," says Mettanando Bhikkhu, a prominent Buddhist scholar in Bangkok, of the movement to make the religion the country's official faith. "But among these Buddhist nationalists, burning sentiments against other religions are very strong...