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Harvard’s shorter semester means less teaching time, but Miron says teaching at Harvard is more interesting than at BU, where tighter resources meant the economics department had to “stick to the nuts and bolts of having faculty teach macro and micro...
...government agency, and the third party we’re bringing to the table is tribal leaders.” And Norman said that he hoped the collaboration would be a “two-way street.” “These kinds of partnerships teach medicine an awful lot about how to be effective,” Norman said. —Staff writer Laurence H. M. Holland can be reached at lholland@fas.harvard.edu...
...fact that I get to teach courses that mesh with my research interests makes life very pleasant,” says Miron, whose current interests include libertarian economics, crime, recycling, global warming, and terrorism. “You don’t have this tension of ‘should I focus on research or teaching’—the two are almost one and the same...
...orators” chased Summers out. The most visible rebuke came on the Op-Ed page of Saturday’s New York Times. Columnist John Tierney cast Summers as a victim of professors with “delicate psyches” who are “accustomed to teaching whatever’s in their latest book.” Frustrated by these and other attacks in the national media that are painting them as reactionary, lazy, radical, and worse, professors are pondering whether to launch a counter-offensive. Compounding their dilemma, Faculty members say, is the fact that...
...Star Wars’ is an important movie in the history of movie making,” he says. “In terms of cultural history, it’s an important moment.” John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Jason Kaufman, who teaches Sociology 153: “Media and the American Mind,” sees the trend towards pop culture inclusions on syllabi as both a relief and a duty.“Just because we’re Harvard professors doesn’t mean we don?...