Word: helmholtz
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...When Helmholtz Professor of Health Sciences Lee Gehrke and his wife, Deborah, arrived at Quincy House last fall as Acting Masters, there wasn’t much in the way of House spirit awaiting them. But within months, the Gehrkes had done more for House community than Quincy’s official Masters, Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70 and Jayne Loader, had managed in years...
...masters. The administrative and symbolic leaders of their houses, House masters set the tenor that gives each House a distinctive personality and, more broadly, determines whether the House succeeds or fails. Residents of Quincy House witnessed the community-building power of House masters this year, as interim house masters Helmholtz Professor of Health Sciences Lee and Deborah J. Gehrke filled in for Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70 and Jayne Loader. During their term, the Gehrkes made a continual, ongoing effort to actively participate in House life, dining regularly in Quincy’s dining...
...commend the recent contract signed by German Education and Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn in Jakarta on March 14 to install an early-warning system, designed by Germany’s largest research institution, the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers. The system will be effective in registering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis and is estimated to cost Germany’s national research center for geosciences, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, roughly 45 million Euro ($60.3 million), a paltry price to pay for the potential lives that will be saved by this early alert system...