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...Jackson expressed a desire to return to his research in an interview with The Crimson in May, and in a town hall with students early this semester quipped that he had promised his wife only six months of “this madness...
...Over the last year, some of the people involved in the Committee on House Life synthesized research obtained from focus groups, five House Program Planning Subcommittees, and student surveys. Chief among their findings, Nelson says, was that the Houses needed to be modernized—and not merely with cosmetic improvements like fresh coats of paint, but rather with extensive interior renovations like replacing internal plumbing...
...Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris says that one early roadblock to incorporating courses during this period was identifying faculty members who would be willing to teach during J-Term, as the idea was met with some resistance among the faculty, especially from those who would already be losing research time as a result of a condensed summer break.But Reva P. Minkoff ’08, a student representative on the Conley committee, says that the body had anticipated that these issues would be resolved in time to implement J-Term programming as early as 2007.MORE PRESSING MATTERSThis effort was sidetracked...
...year planned expansion. Now, with the University’s budgets critically strained, some have suggested that Harvard’s present fiscal challenges have arisen in part because financial planning for Allston was given short shrift by Summers, who instead set his sights on loftier institutional and research goals.“I think the Allston project was a combination of genuine ambition for Harvard to remain at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs and for President Summers to have created something for which he would be remembered,” says former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...questions, even before reaching the stage of setting up models.The pressure on academic economists to publish prolifically, especially at the start of their careers, tends to encourage them to focus on problems that existing analytical tools can solve.“The recipe for something to be a successful research project,” Stein says, “is that it has to be interesting to some people and has to offer an idea or tool that others can easily work with.”In this sense, running more sophisticated regressions on a dataset may appeal more...