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...Brandt’s lectures have also helped him to gain popularity with his undergraduate students. Katherine E. O’Donnell ’10, who took his freshman seminar, “The Tobacco Pandemic,” last year, remembered a professor who made it impossible to “zone out” during class...
...talking to my friends a lot about dating, and a lot of common questions came up: Do I go down on him? Or does he go down on me? Or how do I masturbate?” Mellor said. So her freshman year, she organized the Female Orgasm Seminar. “There’s real empowerment that comes with understanding your body,” said Mellor, a social studies concentrator. “She makes everyone feel good about themselves. That’s what sexuality is all about and she’s involved with that...
...been a wonderful opportunity to work with someone who gives so much thought to pedagogy.” “He is extremely engaging and really passionate about what he is teaching,” said Katherine A. Beck ’08, who took his junior seminar last spring. “He is a fantastic discussion leader and made me excited about coming to class.”Over the last few years, Levitsky’s course enrollment numbers have climbed significantly. Gov 20 now has 270 students enrolled as opposed to 149 last fall...
...major progress” in carbon emissions in the U.S. over the next two years. The event, which attracted approximately 100 faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduates, was organized by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP). Kolstad is the second visiting scholar in this seminar series. Director of HEEP Robert N. Stavins, an economist at the Kennedy School of Government, whose own research in environmental economics deals with global climate change policies, said he was very pleased with the turnout. “Charlie did a great job presenting, and more importantly, there were really good questions from the audience...
...Harvard Law School, Professor Duncan Kennedy—who has no expertise in international law or Middle East studies—is teaching a seminar on legal issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The course focuses almost exclusively on Israeli abuses of Palestinian rights. Kennedy is the faculty advisor for the “Justice For Palestine” group at HLS, and has flown in radical critics of Israel, at Harvard’s expense, for guest lectures. Nobody has contested his right to criticize Israel in the classroom...