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...Yorkers, take heart: your city is a den of dirt and grime and gluttony no more. According to David Owen, author of Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability, the Big Apple is actually the greenest city in America. Residents of New York City walk more, drive less and leave a significantly smaller carbon footprint than people living anywhere else in the U.S. - even Vermont. Owen talks to TIME about the wastefulness of rural life, the reason local produce isn't environmentally friendly and the one good thing to come...
...during a yearlong stay at the Radcliffe Institute between 2003 and 2004. Her research interests include “colonial violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, and violence and the decline of the British Empire,” according to her history department Web site. Elkins is currently teaching both Historical Study A-21: “Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World” and History 2709: “Themes in Modern Sub-Saharan African History: Proseminar.” She will also teach another course in the spring...
...have huge trust issues. That's basically it. I've worked with these guys for so long and we understand each other incredibly well, there's a near-psychic thing going on which means I can work incredibly fast. I don't have to explain things or teach anyone anything. It serves me well...
...basis will be facts.” The program’s resources, for student and junior faculty research, have also enabled the department to invite visiting faculty to the economics department even as budget troubles have caused FAS to restrict conventional funding for visiting faculty. Visitors will teach short-term seminars, but Chetty said their presence will be their greatest contribution. The literal proximity of their offices—and those of other Harvard applied economics professors—to the empty room will bring a plethora of great minds together, including students, junior professors, and Harvard?...
...program is designed for students who already have a few years of work experience and possibly an “entry-level” leadership position in the workplace. It offers a year-long residency program at a Harvard-approved education organization—including Teach for America, well-developed urban school districts across the country, or the Massachusetts Department of Education—during their third year...