Word: professor
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Joel S. Migdal, associate professor of Government, gave an opening speech on international relations before the first work session began...
Thomas McMahon, McKay Professor of Applied Engineering and author of McKay's Bees, and his research assistant Peter Greene specialize in biomechanics, a newly invented scientific method which unites biology and engineering. Constructing synthetic models of limbs, eyes and other body parts, the pair attempt to solve medical problems by discovering, simply, what went wrong in the mechanics. They have already made headlines for their peculiar specialty: in 1977, they experimented with artificial legs to discover the ideal running ground and came up with the celebrated new track for Harvard's Indoor Tennis and Track Building. The track has both...
Recent experiments with animals led McMahon and Greene to apply their methods to eyes. Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel, professor of Neurobiology, and Dr. Elio Raviola, professor of Anatomy at the Medical School, did experiments in which they forced monkeys to read, and found that they quickly developed myopia. Dr. J. Wallman at New York University discovered that chickens, when forced with blinders to look straight ahead instead of sideways as they normally do, also become near-sighted. These results indicate that myopia can be induced. Further, because the animals' eyes degenerated at similar rates, which can be computed mathematically, McMahon...
Harberger would probably enhance HIID's ties to the Economics faculty. The vote to tenure Harberger within Economics was, reportedly, 18 to 1, with Stephen A. Marglin, professor of Economics, casting the lone dissenting vote. Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the department, was chairman of the search committee that recommended Harberger to Bok. Harberger is well-respected in his field as an accomplished and technically proficient economist. (This is not to say that the faculty of the Economics Department unanimously believe he is the right choice for the HIID. There are some prominent faculty members who privately oppose the appointment...
...same would be true for HIID staff--and for Harvard scholars not necessarily even associated with the HIID--in their work abroad. John Coatsworth, associate professor of history at Chicago who directed the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies, said he "found it necessary to spend a good portion of my time trying to convey to the public in this country and especially in Latin America a sense of the diversity of viewpoints represented on our faculty." He told of one of his students who was denied access to an historical archive. "The director of the archive...