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Part of what makes a science fiction class such a draw for Harvard students is attributable to Burt himself, whose lecture antics are the stuff of legend amongst his pupils. “He’s a fantastic lecturer??he throws candy at us, he jumps out windows, he gets his point across,” says Betsy C. Isaacson ’10. This year, Burt’s dynamic style attracted such a large number of students that additional Teaching Fellows had to be hired and a bigger lecture venue procured...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taking Sci Fi Into the Classroom | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...still for an hour and to reduce others’ thoughts to halfway comprehensible scribbles.[no paragraph break here] Part of the trick to remaining sane while sitting still for so long is to allow the mind to wander invisibly. At best, it wanders to a place where the lecturer??s ideas are tested and challenged, which means that one has also missed ten minutes of the ongoing lecture. At worst, the mind simply counts the minutes until class is over. There is never a guarantee that all, or even most students, will...

Author: By J. lorand Matory | Title: What Harvard Has Taught Me | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

It’s not unheard of—a few weeks into the term, one realizes that shopping week was not representative of a class. Whether it’s because of the course’s content, the lecturer??s style, or the late realization that a 9 a.m. lecture just won’t happen, students often discover that they must reevaluate the classes on their study cards after they’ve been turned...

Author: By Matthew H. Ghazarian | Title: Ten Dollars, No Sense | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...contender in biomedical research, LaBaer said that he would rise to the occasion. “It’s precisely this that makes ASU a challenge but an remarkable opportunity,” he said. The University administration said it has no current plans to replace LaBaer. The lecturer??s research will be halted in the meantime, and about half a dozen of his current staff will also transfer with...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Arizona State Snags Lecturer | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...lone microscope perched on a table in the corner hints at his day-to-day responsibilities as a lecturer??one of five who leads the popular fall course Life Sciences...

Author: By Brenda C. Maldonado, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bio Prof Animates Cellular World | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

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