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Report Said Communists Shouldn't Teach at Universities
Every Friday, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past. April 2, 1929: Historic Engine Makes Debut in Square Today At exactly five minutes past one today a fire engine of the Cambridge Catamounts, historic New England fire-fighting aggregation, drawn by six "Fire B'hoys" will make its appearance on Harvard Square. The engine, the one to be used by the Hasty Pudding Club for its production "Fireman, Save my Child," will start from an unrevealed place on Church Street and go up to the Square.
Harvard Professors Discuss University Investments
Harvard professors discussed the challenges of maximizing returns on the University’s investments while simultaneously integrating environmental, social, and governance considerations at a panel hosted by the Undergraduate Council yesterday.
New SEAS Engineering Field Planned
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ new mechanical engineering and electrical engineering concentrations will provide students with the opportunity for more unique and personalized plans of study.
FAS Highlights Pedagogy in Videos
The Faculty of Arts Sciences launched its “Great Teachers” video series Wednesday, a project which highlights pedagogy in video clips that showcase the teaching methods of prominent professors across the University.
Pinker Visits Allston Library To Discuss Violence
According to Harvard psychology professor Steven A. Pinker, who gave a talk at the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library Tuesday evening, we are in the least violent era of human history.
Faculty To Report All Financial Interests
Faculty members will have one month to disclose their significant financial interests to the University, under the proposed implementation plan of university conflict of interest policies presented for the first time yesterday.
Cohn, Early Female Professor, Remembered for Mentorship
When Dorrit Cohn ’45 came to Harvard in 1971, the Boston Globe announced: “Harvard University more than doubled the number of female professors on its faculty by appointing six women yesterday.”
Faculty Notebook: FAS Shows Some Love
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting Tuesday night featured expressions of mutual love, in stark contrast to the contentious ...
Faculty Proposes Doctorate Program in Education
An overwhelming majority of faculty agreed that Harvard must develop a Ph.D. program in education to stay on par with its peer institutions, at Tuesday’s Faculty Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Professors Explore Alternatives to Traditional Lectures
In physics and applied physics professor Eric Mazur’s classes, hundreds of students debate physics problems in small groups, consulting their laptops and phones as they search for the right answer.
Junior Faculty Suffer From Reduced Research Funding
Harvard faculty expressed mixed opinions over the role the Faculty of Arts and Sciences should play in supporting junior faculty’s ...
WikiCells: Food Packaging You Can Eat
Professor David A. Edwards is at it again. Having already developed creations that include inhalable chocolate, inhalable caffeine, and a tuberculosis vaccine in the form of a spray, the innovative biomedical engineer from Harvard is now introducing WikiCells: a new edible packaging technology that allows individuals to eat and transport food without plastic.
Six Faculty Members, Six Summer Stories
While trudging through freshly fallen snow may not induce thoughts of summertime, this coming summer is no doubt on many of our minds as we apply to programs, internships, and travel opportunities that will take us away from Harvard in just a few months' time.
TOP 10 NEWS STORIES OF 2011
As 2011 comes to an end, The Crimson looks back at the most important events at Harvard over the year.
Teaching, Tenure, and Trade-offs
This emphasis on teaching and research as a “zero-sum game” is misplaced and greatly detracts from a forthright discussion of tenure practices on campus. Strong teaching and innovative research are not mutually exclusive goals, traded off and balanced against one another.
Harvard Faculty Members Dish On Their Meals
During their lunch hours, Harvard professors make use of many dining options, both on and off campus.
Faculty Talks Occupy, Free Speech, and Holiday Brownies
Tuesday’s Faculty Meeting—the last of the calendar year—had not one, but two impassioned discussions, forcing faculty members into the first vote on a motion in the past year.
Faculty Cancel Controversial Summer School Instructor's Courses, Debate Reaction to 'Occupy'
At Tuesday's Faculty Meeting, faculty members challenged the University's response to Occupy Harvard and voted to remove two summer economics courses taught by controversial Indian politician Subramanian Swamy from the course catalog.
HSPH Professor Helps with Vermont Health Care Reform
HSPH Professor William C. Hsiao's research in Vermont is making some advocates of health care reform—and specifically of a single-payer model—hopeful that the reform effort in that state could serve as a model for other states.