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...ethnic origins or whether characters are defined by their physical traits. The original Players, which was created under the umbrella of AAA in 1994, has served as a forum for those underrepresented in theater, including Asian American students. The AAA Players enjoyed initial success: their productions of David Henry Hwang??s “F.O.B.,” Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” and ABBA’s rock musical “Chess” attracted large crowds and received praise for their uncustomary casting decisions...
...bullhorn with pseudo-totalitarian sayings is in a league of his own. “Two of the very first things he did were tell me that he had an army of cut-out penguins, and send me a copy of his newly-created manifesto,” said Hwang??s freshman roommate, Michael E. Birnbaum ’08. “I spent the rest of my summer before freshman year terrified.” Hwang and Birnbaum are still roommates in Eliot House, where Hwang keeps Harvard on its toes in more ways than one?...
George Q. Daley, an associate professor at Harvard Medical school and a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Faculty Executive Committee, led the team that studied Hwang??s research. They determined that Hwang produced human stem cells through parthenogenesis, a process whereby an unfertilized egg begins to divide through external stimulation...
HSCI Scientific Director David T. Scadden said that while the research was unable to discover Hwang??s methods from his falsified paper, the fact that parthenogenesis is possible in humans is still a major breakthrough...
Somatic nuclear transfer is the process Hwang and his team claimed to have successfully performed in early 2004. Late the following year, Hwang??s research was discredited, as were other claims that he had cloned a dog. The disgraced scientist was also fired from his post at Seoul National University...