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...Drew Faust is a highly experienced scholar with a record of success in all she undertakes, a fine sense of values, and a deep understanding of universities," he said in an e-mail. "I believe that she is an excellent choice to lead Harvard during a very important and promising period in its history...
...Drew is an inspiring and accomplished institutional leader, a superb scholar, an outstanding teacher, and a wonderful human being," he wrote in the e-mail. "Harvard will benefit from her experience, her energy, and her wisdom in the years to come...
Drew Gilpin Faust, a Civil War scholar, will tackle a “reconstruction” of her own as the new president of Harvard—bringing the University back together after the tumultuous tenure of Lawrence H. Summers.Faust, whose selection still needs to be confirmed by the Board of Overseers in a meeting on Sunday, has served as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, leading its transformation from a college for women into an institute for advanced study in a wide range of disciplines. At the institute, Faust oversees 81 staff members, fewer than...
...innovation and creativity.” While other schools–including MIT—offer classes in ludology, the University of California-Santa Cruz took the academic study of video games one step further by making it an official major in 2006. Furthermore, this scholarly take on a traditional college pastime has manifested itself in a new student organization on Harvard’s campus. Decker recently founded the Harvard Interactive Media Group with the assistance of Alice J. Robison, a visiting scholar at MIT. Decker said that the organization seeks to be a recreational...
Makgetla, the other South African Rhodes Scholar and former social studies concentrator, is currently a reporter at the Mail & Guardian, one of South Africa’s top national papers...