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...just as the best education should be centered on asking questions, so should the best teaching. I could have continued to ignore the problems that the lecture format poses, but as a scientist I’ve learned not to ignore the data: something had to change...
...meant to be a catalyst for working toward concrete improvements in society.” Sounds like pretty standard do-gooder stuff, right? Well, any amount of time with Sarkar will introduce you to a thoughtful person who is unafraid to challenge certain paradigmatic assumptions. “Social scientists and policymakers sometimes use data as an indestructible science on which to base policy,” Sarkar says in a tone that hints at a fundamental skepticism. “I want to be someone who is well versed enough in statistics to understand how it can help policy...
...three years I spent writing for The Crimson, this was a response that came not too infrequently when I told my friends that I spent more time in the Science Center than in Sever Hall. My fellow writers were always surprised to find a scientist—a budding scientist, anyway—stashed among a staff comprised largely of social studies, government, and history and literature concentrators. My grounding in the sciences made me a bit of a curiosity. And a geek...
...Another scientist, Broad Institute Director Eric S. Lander, was considered seriously by the committee in December, according to two individuals close to committee members...
...can’t just go around and say we really want a very strong woman in a high position, therefore, ‘Condi Rice, give up your job and come be president of Harvard,’” said political scientist Sidney Verba ’53, chairman of the faculty committee advising the search...