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FAS Dean Expected To Give Financial Update
Many faculty members say they hope next year’s budget will address the needs of growing departments, several of which say they have been short-staffed in recent years.
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Report Suggests Changes for Optional Winter Activities Week
Amid complaints about the lack of appealing programming and poor communication of available opportunities, Optional Winter Activities Week failed to attract the participation of the large majority of the student body, according to a report presented by the Dean of the College.
Former Dean Questions Response to Professor's Past Financial Ties to Libya’s Gaddafi
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 questioned University President Drew G. Faust on whether the University should actively criticize a University professor for his financial ties with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Faculty Notebook: Hammonds Discusses Renaming OWAW
Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds has acquiesced to pressure and agreed to change the name of the Optional Winter Activities Week, she said at yesterday’s Faculty meeting.
Dean Hosts Teaching Panel
Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds led a panel discussion on the importance of using collections to teach.
Pipe Bursts at Faculty Club
A burst pipe sent water spewing over the dark-stained wood of the Harvard Faculty Club yesterday, forcing residents to evacuate the building and leaving the club’s elegant carpeting covered in an orange tarp..
Out with Woods, In with Brady
Budding economists eager to learn about opportunity cost will soon be faced with football, not golf, when they hit the third chapter of their economics textbook.
Marisa Silveri, Medical School Professor, Calls Alcohol’s Impact ‘No-Brainer'
Binge drinking among young adults—whose brains are in a critical stage of development—can lead to brain damage and impairments in neurological function, warned Assistant Psychiatry Professor and behavioral neuroscientist Marisa M. Silveri in a lecture last night.
Community Reflects On Rev. Peter Gomes’ Legacy
A small group of students and faculty gathered to remember the late Reverend Peter J. Gomes at a tea in the basement of Memorial Church.
Faculty Recall ROTC History
Harvard’s recognition of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps last Friday—following a 40-year hiatus of the program on campus—marks a turning point in University relations with the military.
Awards Ceremony
Michael D. Smith presents awards to administrators at a ceremony held in University Hall yesterday.
Office Hours Draw Few Students
He’s a best-selling author and teaches one of the largest introductory courses at Harvard. But Psychology Professor Steven A. Pinker says that during his office hours, he finds himself awaiting the knock of an intrepid student.
Harvard Community Remembers Rev. Peter J. Gomes
The death of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes has sparked an outpouring of emotion from those who knew him both at Harvard and across the country. This post highlights statements issued today in memory of Gomes, who died yesterday following complications from a stroke.
Government Department Lacks Scholar Specializing In Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard’s Government Department remains without an expert in the field of Middle Eastern political science.
Closing the HKS Gender Imbalance
In spite of efforts to raise awareness on the issue of gender imbalance, the percentage of female faculty at the Kennedy School—although improving from year to year—has remained very low over the past decade.
Faculty Review Honors, Expos 30
In the first Faculty meeting of the new semester, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris introduced a proposal for a new advanced course, Expository Writing 30.
Faculty Notebook: Professors Debate Honors Criteria
“I have been teaching at Harvard for 37 years now, and the two students I’ve taught who have had the biggest impact on the world didn’t even earn their degrees, much less with honors,” Computer Science Professor Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in an e-mail to the Crimson after the meeting.
Department Extends Economics 1010a Change
Continuing an experiment that began this fall, the Harvard economics department will offer three versions of intermediate microeconomics in the next academic year.
Obama: Time for ROTC to Return
President Obama’s State of the Union address last night touched upon several issues that are likely to affect the University, including the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, funding for science research and technology, and the DREAM Act.
Larry Summers To Teach At Harvard College, Kennedy School
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will teach economics classes both at the College and at the Harvard Kennedy School this spring.
Faust Names New Library Board
University President Drew G. Faust named eleven professors and administrators last Friday to serve as members of the first Harvard Library Board—an overseeing body that will name an executive director of the newly designed, centralized library structure as its first order of business.
FAS Discusses Dept. Renaming, Teaching Mission
Faculty members expressed favor for a proposal to rename the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies the Department of South Asian Studies as of July 1. The proposal, conceived this April, also involves incorporating faculty members from other departments in pursuit of a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of the subcontinent.