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...showing that women have a harder time finding new jobs when families relocate.The consortium is the first of its kind in the area and is modelled off of arrangements already in existence in California. The report also sets aside family funds for faculty and students engaged in research-related travel and increases scholarships and spots at Harvard-affiliated daycare centers.But professors say that such measures are still largely symbolic.“You know this is kind of a drop in the bucket,” says Mansbridge of the childcare initiative. “You could spend...
...professors at Boston University who co-authored the study, led by geographers William P. Anderson and Tiruvarur R. Lakshmanan, investigated how automotive transport will be affected by these climatic disruptions. “Whenever you have a major storm event, you have major delays in people’s travel,” Anderson said. The researchers estimate aggregate traffic delays, measured in hours, under two scenarios—one with no climate change, and a second with climate-change-induced flooding. They found that climate change would increase aggregate traffic delays by 80 percent over the next century. Researchers...
Next fall, Stephen Greenblatt and Louis Menand will team up to offer an introductory humanities colloquium that will be listed in next year’s catalog along with over a dozen new divisional courses in the humanities. Students will also have the opportunity to travel along the “Silk Road” with Mark Elliott from East Asian Languages and Civilizations and with Richard Wolf from the Music Department as their guides. Michael Puett of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Roberto Mangabeira Unger from the Law School will reflect on the contrast between two attitudes?...
...proposition that could only be made in person. Just one day after Summers had submitted his formal resignation to the Corporation, Houghton called Bok to notify him that he and Keohane would travel to Florida to discuss the situation further. On Saturday, Feb. 18, Keohane and Houghton met Bok for a secret rendezvous in Sarasota, Fla. They explained the circumstances to the former president, outlined their expectations, and told Bok that he would only have to serve for, at most, one academic year...
...College continues to encourage students to spend time across the pond, it is simultaneously making it easier for students to do so. One year after imposing stricter restrictions on students’ international study, the College decided to reinstate some nations still under State Department travel warnings. The old policy relied too heavily on general blanket warnings and ignored regional variations in safety in different countries. For example, students could not obtain grants (or course credit) for studying in relatively safe countries such as Israel, Lebanon, and Kenya...