Gender Gains? trants use multiple identities to tease out At a time of heightened campus interest quiz answers and then enter the correct in diversity and inclusiveness (see page Brevia ones in their main account. That perver- 24), and addressing sexual assault (see sion of “experiential” engagement aside, page 18), The Harvard Crimson reported two researchers from Carnegie Mellon dem- challenges to traditionally male campus onstrated the teaching power of exercises enclaves: The Spee, a (as opposed to mere final club, extended watching of videos) invitations for its in online courses—as membership “punch” in classrooms. Nobel to women, an initial laureate Carl Wie- step in prospective- man, now a professor ly going coed, and of education at Stan- women tried out for ford, has proposed acting parts in the all- evaluating teachers male Hasty Pudding (always a fuzzy art) Theatricals drag objectively by mea- revue. The Pudding suring their use of declined to cast any practices shown to women (who have promote student out- long held technical, comes, at least in the writing, music, and sciences. Coursera, support roles), at least for this year. Science center schematic: edX’s for-profit rival, raised a $49.5-million Harvard planners have introduced the round of new financing, and published design for the science and engineering Retaining Recruits complex in Allston, encompassing a survey of registrants who completed Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Mi- 586,000 square feet of new construc- courses, revealing career advancement as chael D. Smith’s 2015 annual report, re- tion and repurposed space at 114 an even greater motivation for enrolling leased in early October, highlights a Western Avenue. The new building than general educational advancement. will house much of the School of troubling phenomenon, persistent since Engineering and Applied Sciences; a And Harvard Business School began of- 2007, in efforts to diversify faculty ranks: a rendering of the south-facing side, fering its HBX courses for college credit smaller percentage of eligible women than shown here, shows green space—sites through the Extension School. for future development. The center, men decide to stand for tenure, departing the first academic anchor of Harvard’s before the scheduled review year. Tenure- expanded campus, is to begin con- On Other Campuses track women in FAS reported lower sat- struction next year, with occupancy The University of Michigan has isfaction with faculty membership than scheduled in 2020. For details, see launched a $100-million Data Science harvardmag.com/seascenter-15. their counterparts in any other Harvard Initiative, aiming to hire 35 new faculty school. Interviews with departing women members during the next four years to uncovered “striking” dissatisfaction with members and made grants to encourage augment work on “big data” issues. (In departmental culture; the report stated innovations in classroom practice and a September interview with the Harvard that respondents said the culture “was learning assessments. The integrated re- Gazette, President Drew Faust disclosed not conducive to their productivity and search group reflects convergence in on- that planning for an academic “Gate- was a significant factor in their decision line and classroom techniques and trends, way” building in Allston may encom- to leave.” Smith has asked academic deans and professionalizes the scholarship of pass “a big-data initiative [that] can be to review departments’ formal mentoring the group, which is hiring full-time re- moved forward intellectually and also plans, and FAS will launch seminars and search scientists. Professor of government in terms of a physical presence there in symposiums on leadership and other sub- Dustin Tingley directs the new group; he the years to come”—near the Business jects important for tenure-track faculty has pursued a deep interest in experiential School and the science and engineering members’ careers. learning in the social sciences. Professor of complex. Units such as Harvard’s In- education Andrew Ho, who directed Har- stitute for Quantitative Social Science Teaching and Learning vardX research, will now chair a faculty have long been bruited about as possible Peter Bol, vice provost for advances in committee advising Tingley’s staff. candidates for that location.) Separately, learning, has combined the separate re- the University of Wisconsin, squeezed search organizations serving HarvardX, Learning Online by state budget cuts, announced that a which produces online courses, and the Harvard and MIT researchers for edX matching-gift program had raised $250 Harvard Initiative for Learning and have documented the new phenomenon million to endow professorships and Teaching, which has convened faculty of cheating in online courses, as regis- chairs, doubling the number to 300.
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Nota Bene Foundation’s 24 fellows for 2015 (each re- SoldierS field rip? Harvard Athletics has CUratorial cohort. ceives $625,000 of unrestricted support): renamed Soldiers Field, the lacrosse and Refreshing its curato- associate professor of sociology and of soccer venue, in honor of sports benefac- tion er da
rial ranks, Harvard Art ass social studies Matthew S. Desmond tor Gerald R. Jordan ’61, and reflagged the oun Museums has made four n L (whose work on eviction previous Jordan Field, home of field hockey, ha ur f t h
appointments, effective y E and poverty was featured the Harvard Field Hockey Stadium. Left s this fall. Ethan Lasser in “Disrupted Lives,” the cArt somewhat in the lurch is Soldiers Field e Ma h is now Stebbins cura- courte January-February 2014 itself, the 1890 gift from great University f t
tor of American art and Ethan Lasser cover story); assistant y o benefactor Henry Lee Higginson, LL.D. s head of the division of professor of neurology 1882, whose donation was “absolutely
European and American art (he joined Beth Stevens (cited for courte without condition of any kind,” but me- the staff in 2012 and had been acting head work on brain develop- Matthew S. morialized his friends who served during since December 2014). A. Cassandra Al- ment); Heidi Williams, Desmond the Civil War (see “Civil Soldiers,” The binson, arriving from the Yale Center Ph.D. ’10 (a healthcare economist at MIT); College Pump, May-June 2002, page 76). for British Art, is Winthrop curator of and Peidong Yang, Ph.D. ’97 (an inorganic The Soldiers Field name lives on, generi- European art. Elizabeth chemist at the University of California, cally, for the area as a whole, and for soft- M. Rudy, a staff member Berkeley). ball games. since 2011, is now Weyer- haeuser associate curator Genetics giants. Mendel professor of Miscellany. Amid extensive building of prints. Rachel Saun- genetics and of medicine Stephen J. at Harvard (see “Campuses Under Con- ders, her Harvard dis- Elledge and Evelyn M. Witkin of Rut- struction,” September-October, page
Antoinette HocboAntoinette sertation just completed, gers have been awarded the Lasker Basic 16), the University’s chief for all things A. Cassandra is Rockefeller associate Medical Research Award, a preeminent construction-related, Mark R. Johnson, Albinson curator of Asian art. honor in biomedical science, for their vice president for capital planning and studies of DNA damage and responses to project management since 2010, departed Humanities honorands. Thomas profes- protect the cell. in late October to join a private devel- sor of history and of African and African oper undertaking a huge project in east American studies Evelyn Brooks Hig- Dueling developments. As Harvard pro- Cambridge.…Consumer advocate Ralph ginbotham has been recognized with the ceeds to clean the site and plan for its Nader, LL.B. ’58, in September opened National Humanities Medal, conferred future “enterprise research campus” the American Museum of Tort Law in by President Barack Obama on Septem- along Western Avenue and the Charles Winsted, Connecticut, his home town.… ber 10. Everett L. Fly, who in 1977 became River (see “A New Era in Allston,” March- Architect Richard Rogers has reportedly the first African American to earn a mas- April, page 18), MIT is proceeding to add donated to the Graduate School of De- ter of landscape architecture degree from six buildings with offices, labs, housing, sign a house he co-designed in 1967 near the Graduate School of Design, was also and stores along Main Street, and Bos- Wimbledon as a home for his parents; it honored. Their work is described at har- ton Properties is pursuing rezoning for is intended as a center for advanced ar- vardmag.com/fly-15. 1 million square feet of new development chitecture students to stay and study along Broadway. Both sites are in Ken when their work takes them to London.… MacArthUr fellows. Two professors and dall Square, perhaps the nation’s strong Former School of Engineering and Ap- two alumni are among the MacArthur est market for biomedical and technol- plied Sciences dean Cherry A. Murray ogy research space. The has been nominated as director of the Harvard zone, when office of science in the U.S. Department developed, could be a of Energy.… Robert Steven Kaplan, for- competing venue for merly Marshall professor of management such tenants. practice and senior associate dean for external relations at Harvard Business Cold comfort: Bright-Landry Hockey School—a capital-campaign leadership Center has expanded role—has been appointed president and and renovated in CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dal- recent years, with new las. He was previously vice chair of Gold- locker rooms, sports-medicine and man Sachs.…The Crimson reported that workout facilities, and qualifying students enrolled in the Hu- more. This season, it’s manities 10 colloquium will be able to the fans’ turn, as the use it to fulfill their 20-level rink features new, very Expository Crimson-friendly Writing course, a departure from the seating. prevailing required writing class.
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