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Christakis was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2006, and though he continues research at HMS, the professor continues to teach a popular course at the College, Sociology 190: “Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context?...
Simonton rather dismissively calls this the "drudge theory." He thinks the real story is more complicated: deliberate practice, he says, is a necessary but not sufficient condition for creating genius. For one thing, you need to be smart enough for practice to teach you something. In a 2002 study, Simonton showed that the average IQ of 64 eminent scientists was around 150, fully 50 points higher than the average IQ for the general population. And most of the variation in IQs (about 80%, according to Simonton) is explained by genetics. (See pictures of Bobby Fischer, chess prodigy...
...teach at a school in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. It’s an underachieving school even by the standards of where Teach for America places its members. We take students who weren’t able to pass out of eighth grade before they became too old to start high school. Some have been thrown out of two or three middle schools, and many served time in juvenile detention for a colorful range of offenses. Others simply lost a year as orphans of the storm, Katrina kids mishandled by overwhelmed officials in Houston, Atlanta, or Arkansas who fell behind...
...Aidan Kelly ’08, a former chair of Fifteen Minutes magazine, is a 2008 Teach for America—Greater New Orleans corps member...
...University can still provide an innovative arts curriculum despite an economic downturn. “Of course the economy is impacting everything that this university is doing,” says Megan. “But I think that continuing to seed new intensive, high impact engagements with teaching artists remains important.” Smaller initiatives like this seminar can maintain the momentum that the first report generated and provide students with new opportunities to interact with the art world.According to Megan, Harvard will host a number of artists in residence in the next few years. These professionals will...