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...Vogel, emeritus Ford researcher professor of social sciences who voted against her, remembers Skocpol for her broad reading and her commitment to her students. Vogel says he gave Skocpol an “A” when she was his graduate student.“Theda Skocpol is very bright, is dedicated to her work, is a dedicated teacher, and spends a great deal of time working with her students. She raises excellent questions,” Vogel says of his former student, teaching fellow, and colleague.REASONS FOR REJECTIONDespite these considerable qualifications, those professors who voted against Skocpol for tenure...
...asked her if she had ever used her writing to work out an emotional issue. Although her first instinct was to say “no,” Scott realized at that moment that the relationship between two characters in one of her books, “Burning Bright,” was similar to the one between she and her friend, who died of AIDS. “You can’t not identify with the character and write them well,” Scott says. Don Sakers, author of science-fiction novels such...
...long Harvard career. She was already a pioneer—fewer than one percent of her graduating class went to college outside of Texas—and she was the first person from her school to apply to an Ivy League institution, she says.That fall, Worth arrived as a bright-eyed freshman, “brilliant and thrilled to be at Harvard,” according to her junior- and senior-year roommate in Kirkland House, Linda S. Burrows ’81.Alice E. Hill ’81, Worth’s other roommate, remembers Worth as successfully juggling...
...beat them well in the first game, but we let them get back into the match in the second frame. I didn’t prepare our guys as well as I could have.” Fortunately for the Crimson, its prospects for 2007 will be bright. Though the team is graduating three seniors—including the dominant McKiernan—many of its younger players appear well poised to fill in. Rising sophomore middle hitter Brady Weissbourd showed signs of promise in limited action and rising junior Brian Rapp established himself as a solid option at libero...
...physics in the 1970s and confirmed the quantum theories of physicists from the early 20th century including Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein.Wilson won the 1982 Nobel Prize in physics for his development of the Renormalization Group (RG) into a central tool in physics.Wilson’s father, E. Bright Wilson Jr. was a professor of chemistry at Harvard. As an undergraduate, Wilson concentrated in mathematics, though he also studied physics. He won the prestigious Putnam fellowship, awarded to high scorers on a national collegiate math competition.Wilson described his time at Harvard as a “stimulating environment...