Word: scholarships
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Robin E. Kelsey, formerly an associate professor specializing in the history of photography, has achieved tenure in the history of art and architecture department. At Harvard since 2001, Kelsey has been recognized by students and faculty for his devotion to teaching and his innovative scholarship. “He is really and truly the complete package—an amazing scholar, beloved teacher, and a really generous and congenial colleague,” said fellow HAA professor Jennifer L. Roberts. Pedagogically, Kelsey is known for his vibrant lectures and close attention to students. “He?...
...plea, then, to Harvard’s splendid new graduating class of 2009. When you leave the university, be wary of seductive ideas not sufficiently vetted by academic scholarship. When endorsement by academic specialists is missing, there are usually good reasons. Also, think globally, not just locally, before you embrace a fashionable new choice. The non-academic purveyors of fashion seldom do. Robert Paarlberg is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of “Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa...
...thought into a weapon against received wisdom might get an A for the elementary school lesson of sitting still. The student who learns the quickest route to a legitimizing degree and a six-figure salary gets an A for the lessons of vocational school. But the student who uses scholarship and words to resist the authoritarianism and the injustice of senescent power gets an A for the lessons of Harvard College. In the history of Harvard, many students and professors will mistake the socialist student activism of the 1930s, the African-American and anti-ROTC activism...
...those days, still vaguely unusual: Denver was remote and provincial, far from the colorful melting pots of 19th century New Orleans, or ancient Rome. His storytelling father, a newspaperman, died when Howe was eight years old, widowing his mother and making money scarce. It was only a National Scholarship from Harvard that allowed Howe to afford an Ivy League education. Recalling his early days of transition between Denver and Harvard, Howe interrupts himself to say, “By the way, in those days transportation meant the train,” he said, “It was a night...
...Nelson said that he was influenced to go into the field by former editors like David Halberstam ’55 and Anthony Lewis ’48 who became Pulitzer Prize winning journalists. Former editors also inspired Nelson to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship. After receiving the scholarship, Nelson went on to attain an M. Phil in politics from Oxford. He began his career after graduate school as an instructor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Washington D.C. to report on Congressional and foreign affairs for the Washington Post...