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...affinity toward this area.” The first found of funding—awarded last fall—was geared toward marketable research to combat widespread diseases, such as HIV, cancer, and diabetes. “My personal feeling is that academic researchers can really have significant impact on health care and society by lending their expertise to projects that can be translated into therapeutic intervention,” said Joan S. Brugge, a professor of cell biology who sits on the Accelerator Advisory Committee. The fund has already helped one breakthrough—which emerged from the work...
...weave together the fabric of a student’s educational experience, and programs aimed at integration must be careful not to drastically disrupt these elements of a child’s schooling. Moreover, integration programs should pay special attention to the abundance of social-scientific research detailing the impact of such efforts on student learning outcomes. Ultimately, public schooling, be it race-conscious or not, must be primarily focused on the overall quality of a student’s education. Such an end entails far more than just the success of an individual teacher or textbook, but the entirety...
...dismantle its nuclear facilities. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew from Lee's inaugural to Beijing to reiterate that point to the Chinese authorities. No harm in that, but the real lesson of the past few years is that the Chinese get it. Alarmed by the potentially destabilizing impact of nuclear weapons on the peninsula, Beijing, Pyongyang's old ally, has been deeply engaged in the six-party talks between the North and the South along with Japan, the U.S. and Russia. Lee would like others to be involved in thinking about the Korean question, too; he thinks that...
Today's artists are fascinated by popular culture, and want their art to compete with the mass media in its impact and pizazz. So they produce objects that tend to be lurid. It is as if the whole endeavor of art cannot be taken seriously unless the artists lead celebrity lifestyles, and unless their output has the packaging and sheen of Hollywood movies or expensive cars. Duchamp's circle lived for outrageous gestures, yet there was no sense of an already streamlined system for them to operate within professionally, as there is today. Or, where there was, they instinctively undermined...
...little too much. The Yard has always been this harmonious place and I think it should be free from being bombarded with things you might not want to hear about.”Danyellé R. M. Thorpe ’11, a member of Harvard Christian Impact, says, “I believe there’s a time and a place. I don’t really think you should single people out in the Science Center. [Religion] is a sensitive subject for a lot of people.” Nagy agrees that being approached on campus often...