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...face in the future have very important aspects that are grounded in the physical sciences but are constrained by what policy is feasible and what technology is available,” said Erich J. Muehlegger, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School who will co-teach the course on energy policy. “The important areas of knowledge are just so disparate right now,” Aziz said. With this in mind, the consortium will facilitate communication between students from different fields, according to Muhelegger. He hopes the program will focus on how economics...
...sitting in a garden chatting, a woman in a chair across the pathway calls out to Burruss. “Excuse me!” she says. “I don’t mean to eavesdrop but I overheard your conversation. Do you think you could teach my daughter to sew?” The bold and sharp-eared woman explains that her daughter is a sophomore at Harvard and that she has been on the hunt for someone to give her sewing lessons. The characteristically humble Burruss laughs, but agrees to give the woman her contact information...
...future,” Ye added. Anupriya Singhal ’09 and Cai were certified as CPR instructors together two years ago before becoming co-directors of Harvard Emergency Medical Services last summer. Although the group normally focused on training Harvard students, Cai decided to teach CPR to people in disadvantaged communities in Boston, Singhal said. “He wanted to build a sense of community in the organization, and he wanted the volunteers to understand the importance of what they were doing,” Singhal said. “You’d never guess from...
...more we learn, the more we think she’s not competent. The key question for me becomes whether I would be a better vice president than she would.”Huchra criticized in particular Palin’s view on scientific questions, including teaching creationism in public schools, which he described as “not consistent with a modern view of the world.”THE LONELY CAUSEBoth Mansfield and Ruth R. Wisse, professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, spoke at length about the difficulties facing Republican-voting faculty at Harvard.Mansfield estimated that within...
...committee approved three classes last Thursday at its second meeting of the year, bringing the total number of courses in the new curriculum to 54. Two of the three classes approved were in the sciences—an area in which the committee has had trouble recruiting professors to teach new courses for a general audience. The environmental science course Science B-35: “How To Build a Habitable Planet” will count toward Gen Ed’s Science of the Physical Universe requirement. Life and Physical Sciences A: “Foundational Chemistry and Biology?...