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...remains largely a mystery. It is clear that she is a woman accustomed to being in a man’s world: first as a historian of the antebellum South, then as an administrator, and now as a woman in a 367-year succession of 27 men. And her scholarship, charm, judgment, fundraising ability, administrative skill, and vision were all abundantly on display during her six years as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.Yet Massachusetts Hall is a far cry from Fay House. The challenges Faust faces as president—from laying the groundwork for a campus...
Milner, of Montreal, Quebec, will study children’s mental health at Oxford on his Rhodes scholarship...
...Darfur is important, climate change is important...Iraq is important, and he gets that.” The son of two college professors, Kristof came to Harvard from rural Yamhill, Oregon. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1981, he attended Oxford to study law on a Rhodes scholarship. His first Pulitzer, which he won jointly with his wife, came in 1990 for coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. According to Yiting Shen, a member of the KSG Class of 2007, the selection of a reporter who could “actually voice out his opinions?...
...architecture, while working creatively to connect technology with a broad array of other fields.” Smith, who teaches the popular undergraduate course Computer Science 50, “Introduction to Computer Science 1,” noted the “importance of a vibrant environment for scholarship across the arts and sciences and the offering of an education second to none.” “This is a moment of rare opportunity, as we renew our curriculum, explore new connections across fields, and plan for a presence in Allston that reflects and strengthens our academic...
...feeling as I did in the pool: The system is sick, because of the organization kid mentality. I overheard one student describe writing a thesis as “Hoopes-ing it up.” I saw one student cry with envy when another student won a Rhodes scholarship. I know someone who took a class hoping that the big name professor would help her with an internship...