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Schama Considering Columbia Offer
Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences Simon M. Schama is considering a tenure offer from Columbia University's history and art
WANTED
A scholar who is a leader in the field, willing to work long hours, will participate in the committees which
S. Asian Program In Fiscal Trouble
A significant part of Harvard's South Asian program will be discontinued at the end of the academic year if funds
Funding to Be Top Issue for Next GSAS Dean
Reducing teaching loads and increasing stipends will likely be the top issues confronting the successor to outgoing Dean of the
Conflict-of-Interest Committee Chosen
The Faculty Council selected four of its members yesterday to advise it on how to address the Corporation's request that
ROTC Advising Proposed
The Faculty Council decided to appoint several of its members to advise the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the
Math Department Seeking Women Profs.
A June article in Science magazine ranked Harvard's Mathematics Department among the top 10 in the nation, but noted that
From Art to Barthes, and Back Again
At 16, Yve-Alain Bois was a self-proclaimed artist--an abstract painter, no less. He later abandoned that identity, but not the
The Same Conviction at a Different Harvard
When Jann Matlock first visited Harvard more than a quarter century ago, at age 10, the College did not admit
Knowles Knows FAS
Biochemist Jeremy R. Knowles, the newly appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, hardly fits the stereotype of
Knowles Knows FAS
Biochemist Jeremy R. Knowles, the newly appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, hardly fits the stereotype of
The Same Conviction at a Different Harvard
When Jann Matlock first visited Harvard more than a quarter century ago, at age 10, the College did not admit
A Shot in the Arm
The oft-bemoaned social life of Harvard's graduate students is likely to get a big shot in the arm this fall.
The Faculty Feuds Over The Politics of Scholarship
Three years ago, a Harvard professor was publicly criticized for allegedly displaying racial insensitivity in a lecture to a Core
Internationalization: Now What?
Derek Bok's vision of an "international" Harvard moved ahead slowly this year, boosted by several innovative "debt-for-scholarship" deals, but tempered
