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Fast-forward 20 years. You are now living in California, when a colleague reveals he is from Boston. “Oh, I know Boston!” you reply. “I went to school in the area.” His face lights up as he begins to fire off batting averages for every Red Sox player, praise the outcome of the Big Dig, and lament the loss of Brigham’s best ice-cream flavor. Somehow, replying with “Yup, it sure was cold during Primal Scream” does not seem like...
...science with a passionate devotion to education and to the public good. It will be a pleasure to welcome and hear from him on Commencement day.” Chu graduated from the University of Rochester in 1970 before going on to receive a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. He won a Nobel prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms with laser lights. He was confirmed for his cabinet post by the U.S. Senate in January. Chu had previously served as a head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley...
...week by the Food and Drug Administration about salmonella contamination of products from Setton Pistachios of Terra Bella, Inc. Just two months ago, Harvard University Dining Services eliminated all peanuts from their dishes in the wake of a salmonella outbreak attributed to several peanut products. The FDA and the California Department of Public Health is still investigating the incident, and Setton has voluntarily recalled around one million pounds of pistachios—both shelled and unshelled—while completely stopping distribution. Setton has also contacted all its wholesalers and asked them to recall their products. HUDS, in consultation with...
Venky received his doctoral degree in physics from Cornell University and worked at both Sandia National Laboratories and Bell Labs, where he managed groups that explored the interface of business and engineering. He then served as Dean of the School of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara before coming to Harvard...
...Coming from California, we have the ability to play year round,” Shaw said. “I really enjoyed it and when I had the opportunity to do it in college, I thought why not? I enjoyed the people around me and had a good time...