Page 6 - Drew Faust News Today

Soborno Bari is a professor who specialises in maths and science. He is an Asian-American author and the world's youngest professor.

Soborno Bari is a professor who specialises in maths and science. He is an Asian-American author and the world's youngest professor.

The Philosophers Magazine F M Kamm on comparing deaths. When the number of people who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. reached 500,000 special notice was taken of this great tragedy. As a way of helping people appreciate how enormous an event this was, some commentators thought it would help to compare it to other events that involved a comparable number of people losing their lives. For example, it was compared to all the...

Not since President Obamas speech to graduating cadets of the class of 2014 at West Point have there been remarks to a military academy as atonal as those Vice President Harris just delivered to the midshipmen at Annapolis. Ms. Harris talked to our

A panel on achieving gender equity, and a conversation with Radcliffe Medalist Melinda French Gates

The trailblazing work of Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist, advocate for the rights of women and girls, and fighter for gender equity, was the focus of Radcliffe Day on Friday afternoon, Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s annual event to honor a leader who has devoted his or her life to excellence, opportunity, and service.

Suzannah Omonuk learned about slavery as a child growing up in Uganda. But her history books were “whitewashed,” she said, sheltering her “from the true horrors” and ignoring the ways slavery’s toxic effects rippled throughout the U.S. and beyond. “In Uganda it was different because it almost felt like this was a terrible thing that happened in the world, but it’s over now, like we all can breathe a sigh of relief,” said Omonuk, a master’s candidate at Harvard Divinity School....

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Harvard has apparently concluded its review of its relationship to the convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey E. Epstein. In September 2019, after expressing that he “profoundly regret[s]” Harvard’s association with Epstein, University President Lawrence S. Bacow promised “to review how we prevent these situations in the future.” In May 2020, the University released a report compl...

The entire world is facing an economic crisis and the tertiary educatio...

1911 The Corporation proposes that needy boys entering the College from Cambridge high schools be exempted from paying tuition during their first year, and that summer-school fees be substantially reduced for Cambridge public-school teachers. 1926 In response to grumbles from alumni that the modern Harvard student is “too self-conscious to enjoy tomfoolery, too sophisticated to do anything that isn’t done,” the Bulletin shares a string of recent undergraduate antics, including a student ...