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Leading professors on the future of their fields

Leading professors on the future of their fields

From The September-October 2011 Issue

Pamela Silver

For Harvard’s 375th anniversary, leading professors predict the future of their fields:

Biology in This Century, by Pamela A. Silver

Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century, by Nitin Nohria

Reading Is Elemental, by Helen Vendler

Engineering in the Twenty-First Century,  by Cherry A. Murray

Sciences Still Young, by Edward L. Glaeser

 

Published in the September-October 2011 print issue under the headline “The Progress of the Disciplines,” in the Features section.

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