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...continues to offer classes - and students continue to graduate. I firmly believe that education is the way to promote positive change in the Middle East. Not only will it help bridge the knowledge and technology gaps in the region and help develop the Middle East's intellectual and human capital, but it will also help people succeed and live together more peacefully. Joseph J. Jabbra, PRESIDENT, LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, BEIRUT...
...Medical School spokesman.Medical School professor Lee M. Nadler will lead the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) in a University-wide initiative designed to use research to address health problems.“This grant will enable people who naturally would not come together to solve problems that affect humans who have illnesses,” said Nadler, who was appointed dean for clinical and translational research last year.The initiative will affect not just the institutions at the Longwood Medical Area, but may also lead to the creation of courses for undergraduates as well as new research programs at Harvard...
...more outspoken than Faust in calling for an increased role of the military on campus, saying that "degree of cleavage between the military and the academy is very detrimental for both," he also criticized "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the harshest of terms, calling it "offensive to human dignity and to principles of nondiscrimination...
...Cambridge at that time did not fit the bill.In 1981, after another 13 years at Yale, Pilbeam came to Harvard—the only place he would go other than Yale, he said.Pilbeam quickly immersed himself in the University community, acting as a professor, a head tutor for the human and evolutionary biology concentration, the dean of undergraduate education, a senior adviser to the dean of the College, the interim dean of the Faculty, and the dean of the College on an interim basis at some point during the past 27 years. University President Drew G. Faust termed...
...increasingly difficult to come by. Perhaps this will convince more students to consider other options after graduation, namely serving their country and people through public service, politics, or non-profit volunteering. If President Eliot’s call to “serve thy kind” refers to human kind, then the past year surely has echoed that sentiment, with the natural disasters in Asia and South America, a global food crisis, various election crises in Africa, ongoing oil hikes, and the threat of recession...