scholarly journals The Faculty of Arts and Sciences

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton Keller ◽  
Phyllis Keller
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientists ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Frederick Jackson Turner ◽  
Undergraduate Instruction ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Carnegie Corporation ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
World Class ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Prevailing View

It was in his dealings with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that Conant’s attempt to create a more meritocratic Harvard met its severest test. Out of this often tumultuous relationship came one of Harvard’s most influential academic innovations: a system for the appointment of tenured faculty that became standard practice in American universities. Conant inherited a faculty that was not necessarily the nation’s best. Because of Lowell’s stress on undergraduate instruction, the number and proportion of tutors and instructors steadily increased during the 1920s. At the same time, many of the best known Harvard professors during the Lowell years—Charles Townsend “Copey” Copeland and LeBaron Russell Briggs of the English Department, Roger B. “Frisky” Merriman in History—were not world-class scholars but charismatic classroom performers. Harvard had only one Nobelist, Conant’s chemist father-inlaw, Theodore W. Richards, before 1934; Chicago had three. Nor did its social scientists compare to those at Chicago or Columbia. The rather small stable of Harvard’s scholarly stars included historian Frederick Jackson Turner and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, whose major accomplishments, done elsewhere, were long behind them. Carnegie Corporation president Frederick Keppel reported the prevailing view in 1934: “Harvard is still princeps but no longer facile princeps; and the story is current that at one of America’s great universities [no doubt Chicago] it is considered the height of academic distinction to receive an invitation from Harvard and to decline it.” Conant warned early on that the growing appeal of other universities and Harvard’s standardized salary, teaching, and research scales made it “increasingly difficult to attract from other universities and research institutes the outstanding men whom we desire.” The dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was English professor Kenneth Murdock. Though he resented Conant for having gotten the Harvard presidency, Murdock was “quite willing” to continue to be dean if Conant wanted him. Conant did not. He appointed the less assertive George D. Birkhoff (among his qualities were exceptional mathematical ability and a keen anti-Semitism), who stayed in the job until 1939, when he was succeeded by the even more unassertive historian William S. Ferguson. Weak deans meant that Conant was in effect his own dean, deeply engaged in curriculum, student recruitment, and above all the selection of faculty.

International Relations an a World of Revolutionary Change

1949 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Easton Rothwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New York ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Carnegie Corporation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wartime Experience

A PROJECT of collaborative research concerning major world trends affecting international relations has been launched this year at the Hoover Institute and Library. This project has been made possible by a three-year grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.1Beneath the original planning for the project lay the conviction born of wartime experience, that a deeper understanding of the dynamics of international relations could be obtained by pooling the contributions of the social sciences and related disciplines and by taking account of practical experience in the international field. The need for new and more penetrating approaches to international relations had been put by Arnold Toynbee in a few challenging words: “There is nothing to prevent our Western Civilization from following historical precedent, if it chooses, by committing social suicide. But we are not doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us through our own efforts, to give history, in our case, some new unprecedented turn.” Natural scientists, as well as social scientists are agreed that any “new unprecedented turn” must be sought in deeper understanding of relations among people and among nations.

Multi-disciplinarity as a way to strengthen the positions of Russian technical universities in international rankings

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 1798-1817
Author(s):  
Leonid B. SOBOLEV
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Integrated Research ◽  
World Class ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Russian Research

Subject. The article is devoted to the problem of improving the ranking of the leading Russian technical universities by transforming them into multidisciplinary research universities with the limitation of technical faculties (programs) to 40–50% of the admission plan of entrants. Objectives. The study focuses on improving the position of Russian technical universities in international rankings, providing an opportunity for students to change their specialty or shape it, according to the requirements of the employer. Methods. I analyzed the structure of world-class technical universities in terms of differentiation of specialties and methods of improving the rankings. Results. The analysis shows that the leading positions in international rankings belong to multidisciplinary research universities that provide training and conduct integrated research at the intersection of different sciences. Conclusions. There is a need for gradual reforms of Russian research technical universities, in terms of compliance with global trends in multidisciplinarity, differentiation of funding, and research activities. Such reforms can be carried out in the form of mergers and creation of network structures on the basis of agreements on cooperation between technical universities and research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Holocaust in European History

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Roseman
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Total War ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Unique Event ◽  
Fundamental Causes ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
The Holocaust

This chapter outlines some of the Holocaust’s fundamental causes and characteristics, and its parallels and contrasts with other genocides. It begins by reminding readers of the profound questioning and uncertainty about human progress that emerged in the wake of the experience of National Socialism and the Holocaust, as a result of which our relationship to the modern world has changed. It notes the continuing difficulty historians, social scientists, and others face in applying general models or frameworks to explain the Holocaust, despite a growing consensus that it is neither uniquely mysterious nor a unique event. It then identifies a series of causal moments—crisis, ideology and specifically anti-Semitism, participation, total war, imperialism, and collaboration—that provide entry points to understanding the Holocaust, and at the same time illustrate the ways it mirrors and diverges from other genocides and mega-murders. It concludes with one of the Holocaust’s most distinctive features—the scale and sophistication of victim chronicles of the event.

General Information & Statistics

2002 ◽  
Vol 06 (23) ◽  
pp. 881-890
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
Medical Engineering ◽  
General Information ◽  
Smoking Rate ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Oncology Research ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
High Mercury ◽  
Engineering Conference ◽  
To Receive

Major Health Research Institutes to Receive Funding. Record Number of Hepatitis C Infections in Australia. Needle Schemes Prevents HIV and HCV Infections. Sino-French Life Sciences Center Established. Ten Percent of HK Students Have High Mercury Exposure. India Emerges as Biotech R&D Hub. Adult Smoking Rate at All-time Low. Japan’s Nobel Laureates Hope to Inspire Science Boom. NZ Lays out Biotechnology Strategy. IRRI Sets up Rice Knowledge Bank. Students to Learn Life Sciences through BioCamp. Singapore Sets Up Oncology Research Institute. Agrobiology Scientists Move into New Institution. Survey Shows Singapore Biomed Industry Highly Rated. Biological and Medical Engineering Conference in Singapore. Taiwan Shares Malaria Experience.

scholarly journals Supporting the expatriate social scientist: Faculty research and information access in post-Soviet Kazakhstan

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia Emmelhainz
Keyword(s):  
Social Scientist ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
World Class ◽  
Support Research

Librarians in America and Europe find that social scientists rely heavily on journal articles, specialized data, and feedback from colleagues in directing their research. This project uses 21 ethnographic interviews with librarians, students, and faculty at “Atameken University” in post-Soviet Kazakhstan to explore how social scientists adjust such research habits to a context of distant information sources and limited access. By developing technological adaptations to the local context, expatriate scholars can surmount most barriers to access—and yet librarians are then less able to effectively support research. Increased access to information and skilled librarians remains essential for Eurasian universities seeking to support world-class research in the developing world.

scholarly journals Gyöngyi Szabó Földesi as Scientist and University Teacher in Hungarian and International Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Gyöngyi Szabó Földesi ◽  
Jerzy Kosiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Third ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
World Class ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Individual

Abstract This is the third article of the cycle of portraits of the members of the Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research, who are eminent social scientists researching the issue of sport. Among them, there are many world-class professors, rectors and deans of excellent universities, founders, presidents and secretaries-general of continental and international scientific societies and editors of high-scoring journals related to social sciences focusing on sport. The journal Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research started its activities in 2008 and gathered many readers, distinguished authors and outstanding reviewers. It is worth taking a moment to present the profiles of the individual editors, thanks to whom the journal keeps getting better and better. The journal is increasingly appreciated internationally particular among the scientists from the humanist and social areas of investigations. The rapidly increasing number of its readers and its surprisingly wide reception, indicated by the number of visits and downloads in English-speaking countries, including hundreds of universities (up to 791 were interested in the content of issue 62 of our magazine), research institutes and related libraries, as well as academics, researchers and students, should be celebrated. These data are derived only from one bibliographic data base (EBSCO). It must be noted that the journal is indexed in 41 bases.

scholarly journals Reaching Consensus on Organ Donation

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-157
Author(s):  
Jay Willoughby
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Organ Donation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Legal Ethics ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Donation Process ◽  
High Degree ◽  
To Receive

On July 20, 2016, IIIT held a forum entitled “Reaching Consensus on OrganDonation,” in collaboration with the Washington Regional Transplant Community(WRTC; http://www.beadonor.org), to hear presentations by medicalprofessionals, community leaders, religious scholars, and social scientists. Eachof the four panels was followed by a robust Question and Answer session.Panel 1: Conceptual Framework. Lori Bingham (president and CEO,WRTC) outlined the organ donation process in terms of which organizationsand partners are involved, how medical suitability is determined, consultingwith the surviving members, and deciding who receives the available organ.After listing the agencies and the high degree of regulation involved, shethanked Imam Johari Abdul-Malik (outreach director, Dar al-Hijrah IslamicCenter) for his help in reaching out to area Muslims, some of whom declineto donate their organs on religious grounds.Muzammil Siddiqi (chairman, Fiqh Council of North America) said thatsuch decisions require ijtihād, for there are no relevant Qur’anic verses or hadiths.Although widely accepted by jurists, questions remain, such as whichorgans can be donated, should this be encouraged before or after death, can afamily donate an organ if the deceased died without a will, does donating “deform”the body, how is death determined, is the patient obliged to receive it,can he/she buy it or should it be made available for free, and so on.In his “Organization of Islamic Legal Ethics.”Abdulzziz Sachedina (professorand IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies, George Mason University) stated thatthe main issue is procuring organs, a topic surrounded by “cultural impedimentsand religious misunderstandings.” People are asking to whom does thebody belong (the person or God), can one donate that which will not growback, and if the donated organ will be returned on the Day of Judgment. Asthis is a modern issue, imams and scholars need to identiy ethical grounds in ...

Land symbol in the trilogy The House of Earth by Pearl S. Buck

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (8) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Anh Le Thi Ngoc
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
World Literature ◽  
William Dean Howells ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
To Receive

Pearl S. Buck was the first American female writer (later Toni Morrison) to receive the prestigious Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. Her writing pages have created streaks of spectroscopy that have a strong, lasting effect on world literature from the 30s of the twentieth century. In particular, with Good Land, Divided Sons and Families are works in the trilogy of The House of Earth, and she received the William Dean Howells medal from the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Arts and Literature for the best writing in 1931-1935, at the same time, it also helps her name in the world. Up to the present time, nearly 70 of her compositions can still be found in isolated villages and farms in Tanzania, New Guinea, India, Colombia or in a hut in Malawi. The object of literature, after all the "land" and "the", and each writer often "freeze" a land of their own, a social class to tell, to describe and dissect. Pearl Buck chose vast country like China and the most populous in the world, rather than her native country, to "ground" his art. Despite of living in the land of China only about three decades, time only a third of the life she lived, but the land and the people here have written off the source of her career, which she wrote more works profound value. Through the land symbol in the trilogy of The Real Estate, Pearl S. Buck pointed out the organic relationship between land and people.

scholarly journals ANTI-SEMITISM AND PROGRESSIVE ERA SOCIAL SCIENCE: THE CASE OF JOHN R. COMMONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Fiorito ◽  
Cosma Orsi
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Anti Semitism

This paper explores John Commons’s views toward Jews in order to assess whether his published writings contain assertions that today would be stigmatized as anti-Semitic. The evidence we provide shows that Commons’s racial characterization of Jews was framed within a broad and indiscriminate xenophobic framework. With other leading Progressive Era social scientists, in fact, Commons shared the idea that the new immigration from eastern and southern Europe would increase competition in the labor market, drive down wages, and lead Anglo-Saxon men and women to have fewer children, since they would not want them to compete with those who survive on less. Within this general xenophobic context, Commons developed assertions regarding immigrant Jews that show traces of explicit anti-Semitic accusations.

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