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Olena Hankivsky, an associate professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada joined an intimate group of undergraduates and graduate students for a discussion about the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender and class in health research and social policy yesterday. The informal session was organized by Laurie A. Nsiah-Jefferson, a lecturer on Women, Gender and Sexuality, who teaches courses on race and gender. Nsiah-Jefferson said that she invited Hankivsky to Harvard after hearing her talk about her work at a conference a year ago. “I drew a lot of my inspiration [for my class] from...
...Politics to discuss art and politics with Carlos Fuentes, and internationally renowned Latin-American literary giant known particularly for his novels. Carlos Fuentes served as Mexico’s ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977 and was appointed Harvard University’s first Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies in 1987. Fuentes, who has taught at many prestigious institutions and currently teaches at Brown University, addressed the audience with frankness and humor. In a conversation with Maria Hinojosa, the host of National Public Radio’s Latino USA, he discussed the need...
...fixation on athletics? What makes sacrificing classes for 20 hours of practice each week any different from 20 hours at rehearsal or, for that matter, any non-academic use of a student’s time? Josephine R. Potuto, a co-author of the 2006 study, is a law professor at the University of Nebraska and the chair of the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions. An outspoken critic of the escalation in college athletics, Potuto points out that unlike with any other activity, the university itself plays a dominating role in taking students away from their studies...
...dogs really man’s best friend? The Harvard Cognitive Evolution Lab in William James Hall, now home to more than 1,000 dogs, may hold the answer. The dogs will be used in behavior studies, which, according to Psychology Professor Marc D. Hauser, the leader of the study, will reveal “the extent to which domestication will change dogs into the proximity of human thinking.” The lab formerly housed 40 cottontop tamarin monkeys but were recently replaced by dogs because of the high cost of caring for the monkeys. This switch from monkeys...
...total nonsense to cite our study in this context," said Dr. Bernd Kundermann, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Marburg...