Faculty honored with PBK Teaching Prizes

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Phi Beta Kappa Alpha Iota Chapter of Massachusetts announced three recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize in Excellence in Teaching for this academic year. The recipients are David Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering; David Morin, lecturer on physics and associate director of undergraduate studies in physics; and Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History.

Candidates for the prize are nominated by undergraduate members of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) and are chosen by a committee of PBK marshals, officers, and former prize-winners. The recipients will receive their prizes at the annual Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises on May 22, in Sanders Theatre.

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China's stability during war, revolution, and unrest

Daniel Koss, a doctoral student in Harvard's Government Department, has spent nearly a year in China, studying how such a large, diverse nation could remain intact through decades of warfare, revolution, and unrest, and emerge to wield growing influence on the global stage.