Keyword Results ( "Academia" )

1. The Power House

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

Not many people know just what the Harvard Corporation does, and that's exactly how the group's seven members like it. But after Lawrence Summers's departure, can Harvard's ruling council maintain its wall of silence, even as it handpicks the university's next president? An inside look at the power behind Harvard's throne.

2. Risky Business

Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

The evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby explain why, when it comes to money, men are anything but rational.

3. Face Off: War of the Words

Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

Harvard linguists take verbal jousting to new heights.

4. The Brawl at Depaul

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Supposedly about the Middle East, the raucous Dershowitz-Finkelstein feud has now descended into career meddling.

5. The Healer

Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

Once again, Derek Bok has become president of Harvard at a time of crisis. But can he—or anyone—heal the wounded university?

6. The Search for Harvard's Next Leader

Magazine Archives Article : Spring 2007

The inside story on how the Corporation's second choice became the next president of Harvard.

7. Online Publishing: The Faculty Votes Aye

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 02/13/2008

Harvard approves a plan to bypass scholarly journals. But does the faculty really know what it's voting for?

8. Blinded by Science

Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

In the years ahead, Harvard plans to spend billions of dollars on a massive science complex in Allston. But James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and former director of the Human Genome Project, has bad news: Unless the university changes course, Allston will be the greatest waste of money Harvard has ever known.

9. A Million Little Writers

Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Welcome to the world of celebrity academics–and the behind-the-scenes scribes who help make their fame and fortune possible.

10. The Secretive Seven

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

11. If you can't join 'em...

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12. Shelf Shocked

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

The media attention Harvard generates is unique among American universities, and more than a few books taking aim at the institution’s good name have surfaced in the past few years. 02138 compares some recent Harvard-bashing books.

13. Good Fellas

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

For this block in Quincy House, the success fix is in.

14. The Z-List is the New A-List

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Golden’s analysis of Harvard admissions reveals both embarrassment and riches: The children of big-donor alums are systematically given preference over legacy offspring of lesser means.

15. How to Run Harvard

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

What Drew Faust can learn from Derek Bok.

16. Harvard's First Husband

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Charles Rosenberg is boldly going where no man has gone before.

17. Lady in Waiting

Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

As Drew Gilpin Faust prepares to take Harvard’s helm, the president-elect remains a little-known figure to many faculty, students, and alumni. How did the Civil War historian and Radcliffe dean make her way to the top of the world’s most powerful university? And what does she intend to do now that she’s there? Richard Bradley reports on the big questions surrounding Harvard’s new president.

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1. Why Professors Are Miserable

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 04/22/2008

Academics are constantly lamenting their lot in life. Are they grouchy, or—uh-oh—are they right?

2. Planet Harvard

Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

What’s in the cards for some of Harvard’s most prominent players? Astrologer Noel Tyl reads the horoscopes of three stars.

3. Future Fuel

Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Biotech whiz kid Dave Berry is trying to invent artificial petroleum.

4. Universities Go Left

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 11/14/2007

Are American universities getting more liberal? American conservatives think so.

5. Caroline M. Hoxby, AB '88

Tribe Posting : Names in the News : 10/31/2007

One of Harvard's top economists - and only African-American economics professor - has been lured away by Stanford. The Wall Street Journal recently stated this was 'possibly the biggest catch' yet in academia.

6. Larry Summers: Banned in California

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 09/15/2007

Harvard's ex-president was invited to speak by the University of California...and then he was disinvited.

7. The National Review Trashes Howard Gardner

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 09/13/2007

A liberal Harvard professor gets the National Review's dander up.

8. The Harvard 100

Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

It's back! Our second annual list of the university's most influential alumni.

9. Larry Summers in the Times

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 06/09/2007

A profile of Larry Summers in the New York Times Magazine reminds us of the former president's impressive intellectual energy--and his knack for attracting attention.

10. Feminists for Faust

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 05/08/2007

Ms. magazine hails the selection of Drew Faust—but says it isn't good enough.

11. Sticking up for Larry Summers

Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 03/28/2007

The author of a new book unfairly criticizes Larry Summers.

12. Lobby? What Lobby?

Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

When a controversy about Israel erupted at Harvard, a university publication crossed the line.

13. Books Radar

Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

A few things we're looking forward to after the jeremiads of election season vacate the shelves.

14. Louis B. Sohn, 92

Tribe Posting : Lives : 06/27/2006

Harvard Law School professor; became one of the world's top legal specialists in international law; played an important role in the development of human rights laws and laws that govern the world's oceans.

15. James O. Freedman, 70; President Emeritus of Dartmouth

Tribe Posting : Lives : 03/22/2006

James O. Freedman, "staunch advocate of intellectualism" (The Dartmouth), leading voice against “intolerance on college campuses” (NY Times), “lightning rod of the academic culture wars” (Boston Globe), constant opponent of the Dartmouth Review, purveyor of “anti-conservative outrages” (National Review), “opportunist and demagogue” (New Criterion), Jew and Nazi (according to a 1988 Dartmouth Review cartoon portraying him as Hitler) died March 21st from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 70.