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...every senior thesis gets accepted to theÂ??Festival de Cannes orÂ??praised by Michael Lewis and The Wall Street Journal, but that's not necessarily a reflection on the thesis writer. In fact, many of the College's most successful alumni didn't even write a thesis. And many of those who did might agree with Conan C. O'Brien '85: "A lot of hard work [goes] into [a] thesis. And no one is ever going to care...
...RenÃ??e C. Fox, who received her doctorate in sociology from Harvard in 1954, received an honorary doctor of law. Fox was a visiting lecturer at Harvard's social relations department before joining the University of Pennsylvania's sociology department...
...????Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu...
...Cech received an honorary doctor of science degree. A 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry, Cech is currently the director of the Colorado Institute for Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Colorado. Cech's research served a pivotal role in the discovery that RNA can act as an enzymeâ????a function that had previously been viewed as exclusive to proteins. In 1987, Cech was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer Society...
...honorary doctor of law. He is the president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he co-founded the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program to increase the diversity of future leaders in science, technology, engineering, and related fields in 1988. In 2009, Time magazine named Hrabowski one of Americaâ????s 10 best college presidents...