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...proposal would mark a major departure from the current system in which residential proctors—many of whom have no academic background in the natural sciences??assume the bulk of advising responsibilities for freshmen...
Peter E. Gordon—a modern intellectual historian who is currently the Hazel Associate Professor of History in the Social Sciences??will join the ranks of Harvard’s tenured faculty next year, having recently been granted the position of Professor of History...
...ritual of spring where certain elements complain about the paucity of women in the natural sciences at Harvard has, since the Summers Scandal, become a yearlong event. (By “natural sciences?? I mean astrophysics, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, chemistry and physics, physics, mathematics, earth and planetary science, statistics and engineering.) Men and women are the same, the argument goes, and so there should be equal numbers of men and women in the sciences. If men outnumber women, it must then be because of some failing in the way Harvard teaches or promotes the natural sciences to women...
Under the agreement, Harvard will carry out 1.6 million square feet of construction over the next 25 years in the North Yard-—currently home to the Law School, the Divinity School, and the science departments of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??in exchange for providing “community benefits...
...Since [Summers’] comments were made—at least in the natural sciences??friends and acquaintances have made very clear to me that they feel that they haven’t had a chance to let professors know how they feel about the issue,” Robertson said...