Social Sciences Division
Large Departments Encourage Students and Professors To Connect
The government and psychology departments have introduced new initiatives meant to encourage undergraduates to make personal connections with their professors, as large concentrations work to counteract the idea that their size allows for little contact between faculty and students.
Feldstein's Top Secret Economics Notes Left on an Airplane?
"Some people left their economics notes on the plane. Can Martin Feldstein, Lawrence Summers, and Jeff Liebmann please come to gate C10 to retrieve your economics notes?"
Government Professors Caution Against Political Science Spending Cuts
A Congressional budgetary amendment severely limiting National Science Foundation funding for political science research poses a significant threat to that field’s most promising academic work, Harvard government professors warned Monday.
Professor Tree
Students admire their professors, but professors have professors they admire, too. This week, FM wrote to Professor Daniel T. Gilbert ...
Harvard Researcher: Google-Generated Ads Show Racial Bias
A Harvard researcher has found that typically African-American names are more likely to be linked to a criminal record in Google-generated advertisements on the online search engine and on the news site Reuters.com, a website to which Google supplies advertisements.
Research Conversations
Professors and students gathered together to discuss research in the humanities, social sciences, hard sciences, and quantitative studies at the second annual National Collegiate Research Conference.
Research Conference Stresses Diversity
Speaking at the second annual National Collegiate Research Conference, MIT physics professor Walter H. G. Lewin kicked off the three-day symposium with a bang—the big bang.
Global Classroom
As part of an innovative educational experiment titled The Global Classroom, Government Professor Michael Sandel conducts lecture before students of the University of Shangai, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and New Delhi through a live, video‐linked class discussion. Harvard students in his "Justice" course had the opportunity to join this international discussion.
InternationalLecture
As part of an innovative educational experiment titled The Global Classroom, Government Professor Michael Sandel conducts lecture before students of the University of Shangai, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and New Delhi through a live, video‐linked class discussion. Harvard students in his "Justice" course had the opportunity to join this international discussion.
Global Lecture
As part of an innovative educational experiment titled The Global Classroom, Government Professor Michael Sandel conducts lecture before students of the University of Shangai, Tokyo, Sao Paulo and New Delhi through a live, video‐linked class discussion. Harvard students in his "Justice" course had the opportunity to join this international discussion.
Chef José Andrés
Inspired by artist Dale Chihuly, Spanish Chef José Andrés explains his incorporation of crystallized olive oil into his cooking. In the lecture, Andrés encouraged the application of creativity, science, and art to the world of cuisine.
Faculty Report Announces Contraction
The total number of ladder faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences dropped from 722 to 712 between 2011 and 2012, a 1.4 percent contraction in the size of the faculty, according to the 2012 FAS Annual Report released last Thursday.
Economics Professor Wins "Genius Grant"
The MacArthur Foundation announced Monday that Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty ’00 has been awarded a 2012 “genius grant” of $500,000 to explore creative passions and to pursue meaningful scholarship.
Gender Imbalances Persist in Academics
In 1992, a Teen Talk Barbie doll was released. Shortly after it began selling, it went from saying 270 phrases to 269. The manufacturing company, Mattel, Inc., took out one phrase—”math class is tough”—after receiving criticisms for fueling a stereotype that women were less capable at quantitative disciplines.
