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...integral part of a college education in general. He believes that undergraduate research is valuable, among other reasons, because it is a method to train creative thinkers regardless of their final career choice: “The scholarship at the core of academic research lays the foundation for innovation: Well-designed research projects intrinsically encourage risk taking as they explore the unknown. Research promotes critical and creative thinking, the habits of mind that nurture innovation; creates a sense of intellectual excitement and adventure; and provides the satisfaction of real accomplishment...
...filling Kagan’s shoes, Minow has emerged as a well-regarded leader who will build on her predecessor’s reforms while advancing an agenda focused on academic programming and collaboration...
...only a handful of female professor when she joined the Law School faculty in 1981, Minow has since pushed through various changes—she spearheaded the overhaul of a century-old curriculum at the Law School under Kagan—and established herself as a thoughtful listener as well as an effective doer...
Svilen N. Kanev ’12, who has taken two classes with Professor Wei, said he found Wei to be an enthusiastic instructor as well as a helpful mentor...
Though most deans teach occasionally, Minow managed to teach a yearlong course and a class during the winter term—as well as lectured at various universities and completed a book on Brown v. Board of Education to be published this summer—an academic load that Jackson says is unusually heavy...