Faculty Member Quotes

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

A Harvard professor is an educator who thinks the American Eagle has two left wings.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.

In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

I did go to university and I did teach school for a year.

I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.