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...American Mind” was one of Harvard’s only courses directly addressing new media topics, but it is no longer offered since Kaufman left the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At the Berkman Center—Harvard’s main organization for Internet-related studies??Kaufman has been using data from social networks and user-stated cultural preferences on Facebook to study “the nature of affiliation,” which he feels is a central aspect in new media and cultural changes spurred by the Internet...
...reported to be more interactive, engaging, and practical by the student body. Beyond the improvement to classroom atmosphere are the gains in graduate preparedness: No doubt, future classes of HSPH grads will be better armed to tackle the actual problems of public health. Having to deal with real case studies??from the health repercussions of Astroturf to the dangers of the international sex trade—will effectively combat the insular nature of academic study, which too often looks at single issues in isolation. Instead, case studies will force students to take into account all of the real...
...fireplace so that he could get up a couple more inches above everybody else,” said Joseph W. Esherick ’64, Crichton’s freshman year roommate.Though the pair differed in academic interests—Crichton studied physical anthropology and Esherick studied Chinese studies??Esherick said he “always thought we were put together as freshmen by height.” The three residents of Weld 17 were all over 6’4”, with Crichton standing the tallest.The kid known as tallest in class would graduate from Harvard...
...studies??by School of Public Health professors Howard K. Koh and Gregory N. Connolly, and researcher Hillel R. Alpert—examine the state of the American tobacco industry in the wake of the 1998 settlement that included a $200-billion payment by tobacco companies and a ban on marketing cigarettes to teens...
...political views—have helped to highlight important issues for their specific constituencies, many of which might have been overlooked in a less specific context for discussion. Last week’s debate on Latin American relations—sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies??and this coming week’s discussion on women’s issues in the upcoming presidential election—sponsored by the Association of Black Harvard Women, the Asian American Women’s Association, the South Asian Women’s Collective, Radcliffe Union...