Word: summersã
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Friends and colleagues said Hyman returns to Harvard an experienced administrator, well qualified to be Summers?? point person...
...divinity school is also searching for a new dean, and together the searches represent Summers?? first opportunity to make his mark on Harvard’s individual schools, as the responsibility for choosing new deans lies solely with the president...
...time to pull the trigger on my life has finally arrived. I find myself deciding between working for five years for three letters (P, h, and D), or one year for (hopefully, but unlikely) six digits. I must say, after Summers?? installation, the cult of academia seems pretty cool, with all the robes and the pomp and the circumstance and the bagpipes. But scooting around on the Internet investigating graduate programs, I realized that much of science has become as stale as the moldy bread from the perennial junior-high microbiology experiment...
...Summers?? concerns regarding science education were also well-founded. In the coming decades, science and technology will play increasingly pivotal roles in daily life, and many undergraduates leaving Harvard in the next few years will find themselves unprepared for a technological future. Given the rapid advance of knowledge, especially in the life sciences, Harvard’s graduates will find knowledge of science important in a variety of contexts in the future. The understanding of the human mind and the human genome, the response to AIDS, the revolution in communications—all of these will give rise...
...simplistic representations of good and evil prevent us from deepening our understanding of the issues we will all be facing in the near future. Summers?? speech provides a prime example. By framing his otherwise provocative vision of Harvard as a “global University” immediately after introducing it as the “Torch of Truth,” Summers takes something away from his message. Should our professors “whisper in the ear of a President,” if they so choose? Absolutely. Should they continue “establishing legal...