Harvard Medical School fetes scholar, names chair
By Corydon Ireland / June 25
Harvard Medical School (HMS) will endow a new
chair named for child psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg, the
School’s longtime Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of
Social Medicine, starting July 1.
Designer dreams
By Corydon Ireland / July 14
Callum Gilbert was an unemployed bricklayer and
high school dropout when in 2006 he was attacked outside a hip-hop
concert in his native Liverpool, England. This summer, Gilbert
– now 22 – is studying at Harvard’s Graduate
School of Design (GSD), one of six young British students grinding
through a six-week crash course in architecture.
‘Water guy’ John Briscoe stays in motion
By Michael Patrick Rutter / June 11
For someone who deep-sixed his BlackBerry
(instant e-mail was taking over his life) and traded the local
newspaper for a good book (“What do I need to know about
Celtics’ scores?”), John Briscoe ’76 is as
worldly a person as you are ever likely to meet.
An attempt to define ‘academic
excellence’
By Amy Lavoie / March 19
Many people talk about academic excellence
— but who or what really defines this elusive quality?
Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European
Studies and professor of sociology and of African and African
American studies, analyzes the system of peer review in her new
book “How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of
Academic Judgment” (Harvard University Press, 2009). By
examining the process of scholarly evaluation, she also addresses
larger questions about academia.
Preseason media poll votes Harvard Ivy favorite
By Gervis A. Menzies Jr. / August 24
Expectations are high for No. 23-ranked Crimson
football team, who were named the Ivy championship favorite at the
league’s annual media day.
