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...conjunction with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office of Physical Resources. Over the next six months, the Initiative will be keeping track of the energy consumption of 11 different buildings, including some of the biggest energy guzzlers on campus, like the Science Center and the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Lab. Each month of the competition will focus on a different aspect of energy conservation, such as turning off computers, closing blinds, and lowering thermostats. The contest will end on Earth Day, March 20, and the initiative will bestow its highest honors on the building with the largest percentage decrease...
Allegra S. Goodman ’89 writes about a similar deceit in her novel “Intuition,” which, coincidentally, was published around the same time the Hwang scandal broke out. Setting her story in a lab at the fictitious Philpot Institute in Cambridge, Goodman—whose first book of short stories, “Total Immersion,” was published the year she graduated from Harvard—chronicles the meteoric rise of a young scientist who falls victim to a poisonous cloud of suspicion over his research. While the novel...
...heavily shaped by the dialogue between and thoughts of each individual character. At the beginning, Cliff, one of the lab’s dashing young scientists, believes he has achieved a scientific breakthrough when a virus he injects into cancer-ridden mice surpisingly shrinks tumors. However, the entire lab soon falls under a cloud of suspicion when Robin, his girlfriend, begins to question the validity of his work. As the lab transitions from a period of jubilation to embarrassment, each character’s behavior is candidly relayed by Goodman, shedding light on a rarely-seen dimension of the scientific...
...characters are often juxtaposed to reveal the dualities that exist within the scientific world, sometimes fueled by overwhelming outside pressure. Sandy Glass, one of the directors, brilliantly raises funds for the lab, but his “motives were not entirely pure.” Marion Mendelsohn, the other director, masterfully grooms the young incoming scientists, but is too conservative and very seldom takes any risks. Robin is an ambitious scientist derailed by her obsession with trying to dig up evidence against Cliff, and Cliff is an obsessed scientist derailed by his ambition...
Cliff comes across as an attention-monger who appears more concerned about his image in newspapers than his own lab tests. And Robin comes across as a spoiled brat who only blows the whistle because she has an axe to grind with her ex. The characters’ antics sometimes go beyond the strange into the bizarre. While walking along the Charles River, the Stanford-educated Cliff comes up with a “profound idea” to “walk across the river.” He soon discovers that his idea isn?...