Neil Shah
Desk Editor and Reporter at The Harvard Crimson
cs + math @harvard. tech chair, faculty desk editor, and staff writer @thecrimson. researching RL and k-SAT. signal: nhs.32, email: [email protected]
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2 months ago |
thecrimson.com | Neil Shah
FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra toes an extraordinarily tough line — between being the representative of the faculty and protecting the larger institution she helps lead. As she’s found repeatedly, it’s hard to have it both ways: to simultaneously serve Harvard, the corporation churning through the news cycle, and Harvard, the collective of researchers and students filling its classrooms and labs.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
thecrimson.com | Neil Shah
Harvard University has disbanded the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates, opting instead to outsource the work. The work will be continued by American Ancestors, which is currently one of HSRP’s external research partners in the work, according to HSRP Director Richard J. Cellini and research fellow Wayne W. Tucker.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
thecrimson.com | Tilly Robinson |Neil Shah
University President Alan M. Garber '76 speaks at former University President Lawrence H. Summers' 70th birthday symposium on Friday. By Cam E. KettlesBy Tilly R. Robinson and Neil H. Shah, Crimson Staff WritersHarvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 will convene a University-wide council of faculty advisers — a move that comes after months of advocacy from faculty who want an expanded role in school-wide decisions.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
thecrimson.com | Tilly Robinson |Neil Shah
Saul Noam Zaritt, the University’s sole tenure-track Yiddish instructor, filed a grievance with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences alleging procedural irregularities in his tenure review process after Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 blocked his bid for tenure in June. Zaritt’s tenure review committee and several of his department leaders in Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations levied similar allegations in early July, urging Garber and University Provost John F.
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Nov 18, 2024 |
thecrimson.com | Neil Shah
Economics professor David I. Laibson '88 heads into University Hall for a faculty meeting in 2016. By Katherine L BorrazzoBy Neil H. Shah, Crimson Staff WriterEconomics professor David I. Laibson ’88, who many expected to be a leading candidate to become the next dean of Harvard College, has informed Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra that he does not want the job.
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Scoop from @GBH: Harvard — in a historic move — has revoked HBS professor Francesca Gino's tenure. Gino was investigated for research misconduct after data sleuths alleged that data in at least four of her studies had been manipulated. https://t.co/3eOMCSM8RF
Everyone's caught up with the fact that he's American but the more important fact is that, as far as I can tell, Robert Francis Prevost is the first math major to be Pope.
Noteworthy: Harvard President Alan Garber has now done interviews with the NYT, WSJ, Boston Globe, and NBC but has repeatedly declined requests from the school's paper @thecrimson. (Harvard pres usually does regular interviews with The Crimson. Garber has broken that precedent.)