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Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ’94 planned to leave last night’s Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize award ceremony early to put his 10-month-old daughter to bed. But the quality of the dessert served at the catered Eliot House event persuaded him to stay, and it was fortunate that he did: Liu, along with Professor of History Daniel Lord Smail, was awarded the senior faculty award for excellence in teaching. The Levenson Prize is awarded each year by the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) of the Undergraduate Council...
...read a lot about successful university administrators. And, it turns out, she is one who had a personal as well as professional understanding of the stresses of our rsum culture. It would be a useful lesson for M.I.T.'s students if the gatekeeper who gets to award the golden credential of a degree from the world's most prestigious technical institution is someone who lacks that kind of credential. It would say, "Don't let it go to your head. An M.I.T. diploma isn't necessary. In fact, it isn't sufficient either. There are qualities that M.I.T...
...fiat, but we're more interested in innovators like Monty Jones, the Sierra Leone scientist who has developed a strain of rice that can save African agriculture. Or heroes like the great chess master Garry Kasparov, who is leading a lonely fight for greater democracy in Russia. Or Academy Award--winning actor George Clooney, who has leveraged his celebrity to bring attention to the tragedy in Darfur...
...Strong ’70 and David G. Richenthal, a 1974 graduate of Harvard Law School, shared their experiences of working in the theater industry to an intimate crowd of Harvard actors, writers, and producers yesterday evening at the Loeb Drama Center. Strong, who co-produced the 2006 Tony Award-winning musical “Jersey Boys,” as well as “Urinetown,” opened the presentation by saying, “Describing the journey from this perspective now feels a lot more coherent than it was.” Strong started his career...
...prestigious award recognizes individual achievement, but Cutler said such individual success depends upon help from others...