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...from the past academic year will continue to wield an impact.A BLOOD TEST ON YOUR BLACKBERRY?Last September, Charles M. Lieber, the Hyman professor of chemistry, put the finishing touches on an invention that could revolutionize the process of detecting and monitoring diseases such as cancer.Lieber explains in an e-mail that his device consists of several hundred silicon wires, each measuring only around 10 nanometers in diameter, each containing a receptor for a specific protein—for instance, a cancer marker.The new detector allows for real-time monitoring of blood, saliva, and urine using as little...
...next half century.“President Summers’ departure should not disrupt the process in any significant way,” writes Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis Thompson, who chaired the 1997 University Physical Planning Committee and later the Allston Life Task Force, in an e-mail. “The basic goals are set, and the planning has a momentum of its own now.”But though the outgoing president may have pushed the first phase of Allston planning past the point of no return, professors say that further development will almost surely lapse...
...discussions largely focused on the chairs’ experiences with administrators, who were not welcome at the meetings.The chairs sought to construct “as detailed and objective picture as we could of what had been happening in the faculty,” Ziolkowski writes in an e-mail. But, he adds, the caucus’s long-term outlook was blurry.The group “could have fizzled or could have developed a solely negative mission,” he writes. But with McDonald in charge, the caucus became an engine of reform.A FOCUS ON THE ISSUESOne...
...also a Crimson photography editor, called Paul her best friend and mentor. “I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who didn’t like him,” she wrote in an obituary in The Philadelphia Inquirer. In an e-mail, his blockmate Hani N. Elias ’05 wrote, “It’s not a question that he would have contributed greatly as a doctor. He has had an enormous impact on my own life.” “I looked...
...undergraduate life and his direct support of campus events—events that would have otherwise not been possible—has certainly helped to raise awareness that these are important issues,” writes Zachary A Corker ’04, special assistant to Gross, in an e-mail. “Without the support of the Office of the President many initiatives, such as the Loker renovations, simply would not be happening.”Though Summers is now on his way out of the University, the culture of support for undergraduate life that he has left...