October 13, 2006

Manchester-Harvard Project Will Serve as Incubator for Trans-Atlantic Policy Debates; Emeritus Professor at Yale Is Connecticut's New Poet Laureate; Ex-President of Colorado System Moves to Iowa

By DAVID GLENN and PIPER FOGG

NEW CROSSINGS: In the 1998 book Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Belknap Press), the historian Daniel T. Rodgers argued that Jane Addams and other early 20-century American reformers were crucially influenced by their encounters with their British counterparts — and vice versa.

Now one of America's most prominent social scientists — Robert D. Putnam, a professor of public policy at Harvard University — has announced plans to