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...Grammy-winning album Risin' with the Blues. He was 76. He held one of the most prestigious posts in academia before a slur, uttered while he was ill, ended his career. In 1990, as editor in chief of the project to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, esteemed biblical scholar John Strugnell was under pressure to speed up the Scrolls' publication. In an interview, Strugnell, who had started studying the Scrolls four decades earlier at age 23, called Judaism a "horrible religion" and "Christian heresy." In the furor that followed, his family disclosed he was battling manic depression and alcoholism. Though...
...fellow Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) member Matthew F. Basilico ’08, is characteristic of Connie E. Chen ’08—and perhaps misleading. A snapshot of Chen’s resume reveals a person of Herculean capabilities: a Detur Book Prize winner, John Harvard Scholar, pre-med econ major interviewing for both medical schools and consulting firms (just landing a job at McKinsey & Co.) who has also spent one summer drafting a $31 million grant for malaria and AIDS intervention in Cambodia, another documenting sex workers in Kenya, and the times in between working...
...recent of seven new professors to receive tenure under University President Drew G. Faust this fall, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert P. Mitchell.“We are very excited about having Professor Levitsky as a tenured member of our faculty. He is an outstanding scholar, wonderful teacher, and excellent University citizen,” Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith said in an e-mailed statement.Levitsky, who currently holds a prestigious John L. Loeb associate professorship in the social sciences, is being tenured in the government department. He also has an appointment...
...noted scholar made his mark as a part of the original team working on the Dead Sea Scrolls, documents concerning the history of Judaism and the origins of Christianity that were discovered in the caves near the Dead Sea from...
Strugnell’s students remember him as a inspirational teacher and scholar...