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...good portion of this financial aid assistance comes from the generosity of individual donors who establish scholarships for various slices of the student body??in other words, they give money to students like me. The Thankathon is an event at which we show our appreciation for these benefactors, many of whom are shadowy, sometimes anonymous figures whose names come up only on the bill every term...
...student body??s reaction to Souter, we caution against the extreme excitement or disappointment that has characterized students’ past reactions to the announcements of commencement and Class Day speakers—after all, there is no way to preemptively know the quality of the speech before the day of Commencement. The hype that preceded 2008 Class Day speaker Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke ’75 starkly contrasted with students’ negative attitudes after his notorious ten-citation speech, during which many attendees left. On the other hand, last year?...
...colleague Kenneth R. Chien ’73 has devoted his time to examining one of the body??s most important muscles: the heart. Last fall, in a collaboration with K. Kit Parker of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, his lab made headlines when it produced a strip of fully-functioning heart muscle from mouse stem cells. The muscle acts just as a normal heart would; it beats, contracts, and it even responds to a pacemaker. The next focus for Chien is in creating a “heart patch,” which could treat...
...discovery that they say could lead to a better understanding of the causes of metabolic diseases—including obesity and diabetes—Harvard School of Public Health researchers recently found that overconsumption of lipids and other nutrients in mice activates a molecule that triggers the body??s inflammatory response...
Inflammation is the body??s necessary response to foreign pathogens, but chronic inflammation can cause serious tissue damage...