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...traction for the rest of the semester. Guest lecturers finished the class, and Hartl calls it one of the best courses of his college experience.Now the Higgins professor of biology, Hartl doesn’t need to break a leg for his students to have a team-taught experience. He is one of four professors of the new Life Sciences 1b, “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences: Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution.” Along with its 1a counterpart, “Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology,” the life sciences course joins...
...passions come across in her teaching.“She just has boundless energy,” says Bethany L. Hoag ’06, who took Historical Studies A-21, “Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World,” taught by Elkins. “I left lecture every time with my hand hurting.”In the History Department, Elkins “engages in all kinds of issues...and is not afraid to speak out on them,” says Chair Andrew D. Gordon...
...Chicago at age 15. By 23, he had a doctorate in psychology and social relations from Harvard. He began teaching here in 1960 and remained on the faculty for the rest of his life. Stone devoted much of his research to studying interpersonal and group dynamics. At Harvard, he taught Psychology 1501, “Social Psychology of Organizations” and Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology”—a course he developed and led for several years before handing it off to his protégé, Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar...
...person today as she delivers the female Harvard Oration—the more serious of the seniors’ Class Day speeches—in Tercentenary Theatre. “Shaniqua” is just one of Wilson’s many creations. The Minneapolis, Minn., native taught herself web design freshman year because she was “sick of Dorm Crew.” Since then, Wilson has created websites for professors and Harvard courses as well as redesigned the website for Leverett, her house. She also created the cover of the Committee on Undergraduate Education?...
...opportunity to look back at Harvard’s tumultuous educational history and even build up an “emeritus” section in my phonebook. But my extracurricular pursuit at The Crimson not only gave me access to the professors who make this University great. It also taught me many practical lessons, foremost among them, that leadership is about standing with others, not standing above them—a lesson that I could not have acquired in the classroom, where the professor stands above, removed from the students, lecturing from the podium. All around us, we see images...