Word: scholarship
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It’s all done for good reason. Fasting has great spiritual importance in Islam; a blindingly vast corpus of religious tradition, scholarship, and run-of-the-mill ritual accompanies the month of Ramadan. Leaving all of that aside, however, fasting also offers important secular lessons. Whether or not one is religiously inclined, it offers considerable personal benefits. Few other methods are so effective in teaching discipline and humility coupled with an awe and respect for the human spirit. Islamic virtues, yes—but hardly exclusively...
...Meghan brings a combination of a really rare intelligence with practical, on the ground experience,” said Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75. “What we are trying to do at the Kennedy School is to combine the world of scholarship with the world of practice, and Meghan bridges that boundary beautifully.” The school has also recently added two other professors of practice with international diplomacy expertise, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO R. Nicholas Burns as well as British diplomat...
...village of Kathakkurichi to brick-kiln workers in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, she was a versatile athlete in school, competing in field hockey, middle-distance running and javelin. In 2004, an engineering college in Chennai, the state's biggest city, recruited Soundarajan with a scholarship to study computer technology. She was soon the college's star performer, setting an Indian record for the women's 3,000-m steeplechase. At a national meet in Bangalore in July 2005 she won the 800 m, 1,500 m and 3,000 m. She won the silver medal...
...History,” which developed from her dissertation at Yale. The book examines how the work of land artist Smithson “absorbed, transformed, and sometimes refused the historical traditions that it connected to,” Roberts said. In the vein of her wide-ranging scholarship, Roberts’s current project—“Pictures in Transit: Matter, Memory, and Migration in Early American Art”—studies how art travels and creates a web of communication between disparate sites. In her time at Harvard, Roberts—the three-time...
...liberating that you can explore more areas and do so with utter psychological freedom.” McCormick said she intends to do further research on women’s roles in 16th- and 17th-century Japan, a period after the Tale of Genji was produced when dominant scholarship holds that women were not as influential as they had been in the 15th century. By studying paintings called Hakubyo—literally “white lines,” for the negative space around the ink of the illustrations—McCormick said she is “trying...