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Richard M. Losick, who teaches the popular class Biological Sciences 52, “Introductory Molecular Biology,” was awarded yesterday a $1 million grant aimed at improving scientific education for undergraduates...
...Losick, who is Cabot professor of biology, was one of 20 science professors nationwide to receive grants from the Maryland-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The prizes are the largest-ever endowed to individuals for scientific teaching, according to Steve Barkanic, the institute’s program director for undergraduate science education...
...Losick said he was “very pleased” by the announcement of the award, which will be paid in four annual $250,000 installments. He said he has already begun one of three grant-funded projects to improve undergraduate science education at Harvard...
Cabot Professor of Biology Richard M. Losick, who is also a member of both science advisory committees, wrote in a March e-mail that he supports Summers’ goal of fostering greater collaboration “but would much prefer that [it] be done in Cambridge than in Allston...
...would be unfortunate if our research facilities were partly centered at a location removed from where undergraduate education takes place,” Losick says...