Word: directorship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After serving as a Harvard professor for almost 15 years, renowned Dante scholar Lino Pertile will assume the directorship of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, next summer, the University announced Wednesday...
When the Nazis came to power in Dessau, the Bauhaus moved again, this time to Berlin under the directorship of none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He did what he could to appease the Nazis, forbidding left-wing student gatherings and producing exhibitions of what he hoped would be seen as apolitical abstract work, but it was no use. In 1933, with Hitler firmly in power, Mies arrived one morning at the converted factory where the school was housed to find it surrounded by black-uniformed Gestapo. Soon after, he shut it down for good and made...
Hayden expressed dismay over the political storm that broke after Panetta briefed Congress about the program, which started under the directorship of George Tenet, was then cancelled and revived again under two subsequent directors. It was "not a very prominent thing when I was director," Hayden said. "When I heard [that Panetta had briefed Congress], I thought, 'What are you talking about? What program is this...
...work on Internet law has broken fresh ground and that she expects his more recent research—which is on government and political corruption—to be equally visionary. “I am thrilled that he is returning to Harvard Law School and assuming the directorship of the [Safra] Center to advance those efforts,” she said. Kagan has aggressively pursued the lateral hiring market during her tenure, snagging 20 tenured professors since her deanship began in 2003, compared to 18 in the preceding two decades. Last year alone, the Law School landed six tenured...
...June, Kevin Jennings ’85 was elected to be a Director of the Harvard Alumni Association and, as such, became only the second person in the university’s history to run for and win an HAA Directorship as an openly LGBT person...