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...longer accused of lecturing from my lecture notes. The main and often vocal complaint now is that I don’t teach my students anything—they have to learn it all on their...
...would be wonderful for us if there were programs in Allston involving the human genome and cutting-edge technology, as well as links to the important research activities of the Harvard hospitals. But perhaps most exciting, the opportunity to teach and inspire Harvard undergraduates to think about problems of public health nationally and globally would be an exciting extension of our faculty’s commitment to education at all levels and would open new worlds to the brightest young people on the planet...
...anything break us apart after that.” Though they will finally be together again after the wedding, their Bay Area apartment will only have one occupant for most of the summer. Sawlit will find herself in Long Beach, Calif. training to be an elementary school teacher with Teach for America in Oakland in the fall. Indeed, the turnaround will be quick. They will be married on a Friday, fly out to California at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning, and “honeymoon for two days,” says Sawlit, who then has to show...
...Eighteen years of a lack of failure teaches Harvard students to avoid it at all costs; we become extremely risk-averse. Ironically, classes might teach about the risk-reward relationship, but students who are too afraid to fail can only understand the former part of that relationship after experiencing...
...fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library, where he will work on an intellectual history of the Cold War. Menand said he postponed his leave for a year in order to complete the general education proposal, as well as to co-teach Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” with Renaissance scholar and fellow English professor Stephen Greenblatt. When he returns in the fall of 2008, Menand said it is unlikely that he will continue to teach English 177, “Art and Thought...