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...Professor Ann M. Blair ’84 and History of Art and Architecture Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth will spearhead the effort in the humanities. Brigitte C. Madrian, a professor of public policy and corporate management at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Chair of the Sociology Department Robert J. Sampson will assume leadership in the social sciences. Rosalind A. Segal, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Astronomy Dimitar D. Sasselov will head the science initiatives...
...this as an effort to ask cross-cutting questions.” said Sampson. “It will serve as an incubator for new ideas and allow us to explore research...
...Harvard is unusual in the degree to which official departmental recommendations can be overturned by the University authorities.” Kaufman did not return requests for comment. No junior faculty member in the department has been given tenure in over a decade. However, sociology professor Robert J. Sampson, the chair of the department, said that the department remains upbeat about future tenure prospects for junior faculty. “We are optimistic given the kinds of hires we have been able to make,” he said. “We have a very, very strong group...
...Driving these statistics, researchers believe, are the same factors that drive immigration in the first place. "People who make the decision to come here from another country want to get ahead, establish a better life," says Harvard sociology professor Robert Sampson. "That dream is not something they're likely to risk by getting arrested...
...Sampson and colleagues recently examined more than 3,000 violent acts committed in Chicago from 1995 to 2003, analyzing police records, census data and a survey of more than 8,000 residents. They discovered what Sampson calls the "Latino Paradox" - first-generation Mexican immigrants were 45% less likely to engage in violence than third-generation Americans. This pattern continued into the second generation, which was 22% less likely to be violent. Similar trends have been seen in New York and Miami, both of which have large immigrant enclaves. "Immigrant communities are often responsible for revitalizing the urban neighborhoods that they...