Word: hollande
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...court to serve 20 years in prison for molesting a young boy whom he was mentoring. Yet the real surprise came prior to the sentencing, when Lasaga was defended by three of his eminent professorial peers, including Harvard’s own Dudley Professor of Economic Geology Heinrich D. Holland...
Harvard’s Heinrich D. Holland, Dudley research professor of economic geology, as well as two professors from Pennsylvania State University, asked Superior Court Judge Roland D. Fasano for a light sentence for Lasaga on Friday. They argued that Lasaga’s academic expertise should be considered in the sentencing...
...science are expendable, but the loss of the most capable are felt the most strongly,” Holland said in his testimony according to the Hartford Courant...
Lasaga was conducting studies in global warming and the safe disposal of nuclear waste at the time of his arrest. His work is still taught in Harvard’s Earth and Planetary Sciences courses, Holland said...
...Holland, a former professor and mentor of Lasaga, said yesterday that the revelations had come as a “horrendous shock.” He said Lasaga was well-respected and considered to be “the perfect student, the perfect professor and perfect friend...