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...article notes that there is a considerable discrepancy between the number of entering freshmen who declare the intention to enroll in the life sciences and the number of students who actually do so. This striking pattern of high-school-to-college-major science attrition is a well-documented educational phenomenon; it is certainly not specific to Harvard. A nationwide study of 115,300 Life Sciences undergraduates reported in the National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators (2008) found that 51 percent of students entering university intending to major in the life sciences switched out of the life...
...Artists are not just concerned with the creation of visually profound works of art, but with addressing salient issues that are important for them and for their communities,” she says. Blier emphasizes a desire in the artists to explore and think through the major changes facing the new generation in this era of post-independence and globalization.Although the conference’s focus is contemporary African art, van Wyk believes the issue of new geographies is applicable to everyone. “We are all caught up in this,” he says...
...pervades our community. Indeed, according to my recent conversations with University Health Services and Bureau of Study Counsel counselors and Dr. Paul Barreira, Director of Behavioral Health & Academic Counseling, depression on campus is far more common than one would expect. The stigma of mental illness, though unfounded, remains a major obstacle for many who could benefit from the ample mental health services on campus. According to a 2006 senior thesis studying the state of mental health at Harvard, 56 percent of Harvard undergraduates surveyed reported needing, but not seeking, mental health help. Of those students, 20 percent identified shame...
...gender in his art.The Harvard Crimson: Considering your upcoming visit to Harvard, what role did your college experience play in your work?Adrian Tomine: Distracted me and slowed me down probably. I wasn’t going to art school. I was going to Berkeley as an English major and I basically had to keep the two aspects of my life separate at that time. I would go to class and do what I had to [do] to get through my classes and then I would go home and stay up late working on my comics.THC: Do you ever have...
...socially conservative supporters on the SBOE election that has raised concerns in some quarters. Longtime Texas Republicans like Royal Masset, a former political director of the Texas Republican Party, fear that if moderate Republicans leave the party to support Barack Obama - and there is some local polling in major urban areas to suggest that may happen - it will reinforce the hold the social conservatives and the religious right has on the state party's apparatus...