Word: labs
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During lengthy public comment at the meeting, four area professors, a Boston city councillor, former gubenatorial candidate Grace C. Ross ’83, and a group of singing grandmothers voiced their objections to the facility, saying that the lab would endanger both its South End location and neighboring communities...
While provost, Richard insisted on continuing her research. She set aside a month every year to travel to Madagascar, often accompanied by her husband, whose research shifted so they could work in the same region. When the Peabody Museum at Yale was rebuilt, Richard had an office and lab installed for her use. She was a frequent attendee at what was known as the “brown beer”—a weekly gathering of biological anthropologists...
...about the firm unprovoked, few people even know to be impressed. Blockmate Juliet R. Girard ’07 remembers learning of the full weight of Poilâne’s responsibilities. “When I mentioned her last name offhand to this French guy in my lab, he was just like: ‘Wait—that Poilâne?’” But her close friends understand this reticence. “You don’t want people treating you differently just because you deliver bread to Tom Cruise...
...Harvard’s new study abroad program in Botswana, which focuses on HIV in Africa, students will conduct lab research while taking courses in African politics and the Setswana language at the University of Botswana...
...Harvard is to rightly consider itself a university that cares about the quality of the education that its students receive, it ought to remove from the teaching pool those professors whose allegiances are to their study carrel or their lab bench, and not to their students, undergraduates included. There is a place among the faculty for those who seek to contribute to human knowledge in the former fashion—that is, indirectly—and frankly, it’s unfortunate that we presently force them to compromise their research time for the sake of teaching wee, trivial undergraduates...