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...motion will go before the full Faculty next Tuesday for a final vote. If approved, the policy would go into effect for next year’s incoming freshmen, the Class of 2013—also the first class that will be uniformly subject to the new General Education requirements...
...administrators also sought to assure the Council that the new General Education program—which currently has 70 courses approved for an incoming freshman class of over 1,600—remains on track. Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris, who also chairs the Gen Ed committee, said that they are continuing to urge professors to develop new Gen Ed courses...
Massachusetts General Hospital received its largest donation in history yesterday—$100 million—to create a joint institute between Harvard, MIT, and affiliated hospitals with the stated goal of finding a vaccine for AIDS within the next decade. The gift from Phillip “Terry” Ragon and his wife, Susan, will create the Ragon Institute—designed to overhaul norms of clinical research by drawing from acclaimed physicians, researchers, and engineers in various fields who have never directly worked in AIDS research before. Harvard Medical School professor Bruce D. Walker, who runs...
...Soto has always been enthralled by hip-hop music and the hip-hop community. Silkscreening, however, was Soto’s first venture into the VES department.“There seems to be a disconnect between VES, other concentrations, and the way people think about art classes in general.” said Soto. “Harvard definitely has a culture of not taking it seriously and not really understanding what’s going on over in VES.”Some students would have preferred a more comprehensive exhibit. Many of the pieces on display were...
Similar measures to "buy American" have been adopted or considered in Argentina, China, Indonesia, Ecuador, India, Russia and Vietnam. Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization, warned on Feb. 2 that any go-it-alone route would foster a spiral of retaliation. "Today we run the risk of sliding down a slippery slope of tit-for-tat measures. It was Mahatma Gandhi who said 'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,' " Lamy said...