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...Board. “People don’t have anywhere to go for impartial advice.”Wong mounted a failed UC campaign alongside Charles T. James ’09-’10 that had Ad Board reform as a central tenet.Richard M. Losick, a biology professor who has been a vocal advocate of Ad Board reform and has served as an advisor to students who have gone in front of the board, agreed that resident deans often serve in a conflicted role.“The resident dean, who is supposed to be neutral...
...Even Losick, the biology professor, describes the challenges of engaging students in “cookbook” labs that do not allow them to have hands-on experiences in the sciences...
...proliferation of large science lectures is unfortunate, says biology professor Richard M. Losick, not just because students are driven away from the concentrations, but also because large introductory courses fail to provide students with a real taste of science. [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW...
...Science is about discovery in the context of a laboratory,” Losick says. “My view is to increase the number of opportunities for students to have hands-on science experiences. [...] It reminds them why they were excited about science in the first place...
...editing error, the Feb. 7 story "Students Defect from Sciences" mischaracterized the words of biology professor Richard M. Losick. While the story said large lecture courses in the sciences have been proliferating—implying that the number of such courses has increased—the predominance of large science lectures is not a new trend. In fact, in a follow-up e-mail, Losick noted that the life sciences faculty has actually made attempts to move toward smaller concentrations in recent years...