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...Yale registar’s office.Professors said they find themselves unable to depend on the ratings as much as they would like.“It was more effective in the past when the number of students who filled it out was higher,” said Robert A. Lue, executive director of undergraduate education in molecular and cellular biology. “Despite pleading e-mails...we’re only seeing 60 percent of the class. What 60 percent is that? It’s hard to interpret the results.”Last year, Lue overstepped...
...didn’t participate directly in the work in a significant way, he wouldn’t attach his name to it,” Berg said of Watson. “In that regard, he’s very ethical.” Robert A. Lue, the executive director of undergraduate education in molecular and cellular biology at Harvard, called for Watson to speak out further. “A lot depends on what Jim Watson does next,” Lue said. “This is an opportunity for him to address the issue directly...
...down Harvard’s “culture of mutual avoidance.” Seated casually on sofas in the Barker Center, professors shared comical anecdotes about students who came to office hours, recalling one pupil whom Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue nicknamed “The Ocean” for his relentless stream of questions. 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, hastened to add that students don’t need to come in with a specific question or share some fascinating talent...
...academic environment is becoming more student-friendly as well. Students are now encouraged to spend some time at a foreign university, and many do. Perhaps even more importantly, the new science curriculum being rolled out by Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue and his colleagues is designed to engage the broadest number of students in the sciences and to give students high quality sections and lots of faculty support, helping them not only to succeed, but to like science. The strategy of making tough courses more student-friendly is clearly working: One third of this year?...
...After Lue outlined the current outreach programs that Harvard provides to the local area—including seminars with local high school teachers, faculty lectures, and student field trips to Harvard’s science labs—task force member Bruce Houghton said he wished the University had come to the meeting with concrete plans instead of ideas...