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During the question and answer session of a recent Harvard School of Public Health seminar with University President Lawrence H. Summers entitled, “Public Health Crisis in Africa: How May Harvard Help,” one particular exchange provided telling insight into the mind of Harvard’s top policy-maker—and it was not encouraging...
...interest in studying Buddhism is not a 21st century development. In fact, it goes back to the late 19th century and to some of the men who gave their names to important Harvard buildings. According to Christopher S. Queen, Lecturer on the Study of Religion and teacher of a seminar on American Buddhism, Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, were very interested in Buddhism and Hinduism, though they were not entirely clear on the difference between the two. Thoreau even translated a portion of a Buddhist text from the French version. A more...
Rachel E.E. Garwin ’07 heard DeBergalis speak in her freshman seminar, “Activism, Bargaining, and Conflict: Democratic Decision Making in the United States...
Maizlish praised Gienapp as a scholar, recalling that when he first met him in 1965 at an undergraduate seminar at the University of California at Berkeley, Gienapp was “unabashedly forthright, and direct in all that he said, did and wrote...
Mika C. Morse ’05 spent eight days in Nicaragua with her freshman seminar, “The Latin American Political and Economic Landscape,” taught by Sylvia Maxfield, a visiting professor. But their trip was hardly handed to them on a silver platter. Morse took the lead in seeking out funding sources and applying for grants to pay for travel expenses for the entire class, while other students oversaw the logistical issues of the trip. Eventually Morse was able to secure funds, primarily from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American studies...