Professor David Cutler has been named as one of five FAS faculty to receive Harvard College Professorships for excellence in teaching.
Dean Michael Smith (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) named Mahzarin R. Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics; David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and professor in the department of global health and population; Hopi Hoekstra, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology and molecular and cellular biology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and curator of mammals there; Melissa McCormick, professor of Japanese art and culture in the department of history of art and architecture; and Greg Morrisett, Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science.
“I want to challenge students in their thinking,” said Cutler of his approach to teaching. “One of the hard things that everyone has to do in life is to think through complex problems, using data, intuition, and theory to draw conclusions. I want to guide the students through that situation so they have experience with it. That will contribute not just to the problems we examine in class, but to everything they have to deal with.”
The Harvard College Professorships are one of several efforts dedicated to highlighting exceptional teaching at Harvard.
-- 5 named Harvard College Professors, The Harvard Gazette, June 20, 2014
David Cutler is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics. He specializes in research on health economics and public economics.