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...which ACT introduced major changes into the MCATs two years ago provides an interesting comparison with ETS's methodology. Five years before the change, ACT began testing experimental questions in preparation. "This was a long, gradual process, and the med schools knew about it from the start," Sentress, of ACT, said...
...possible for research, he says. In addition, University faculty members are on disciplinary advisory commissions that oversee applications for grants falling within their disciplines. "Practically any full professor at the Medical School and the Biology Department has served," Dr. Bernard C. Davis, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology at the Med School, says...
Harvard DNA researchers are subject to both the University's own biohazards committees and the Cambridge Biohazards Committee. Harvard has three such committees, two at the Med School and one at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Faculty biohazards committee is comprised of one undergraduate, one graduate student, a postdoctoral fellow, a lab employee, a faculty scientist, and a community member, with Koehler as an ex-officio member. With this varied membership, Koehler says, the committee can be objective in its evaluations and enforcement of NIH regulations. However, skeptics could point to the case last year of Dr. Charles...
Reports issued by the Med School and NIH released earlier this spring state Thomas essentially followed the NIH guidelines although he did not have NIH approval for the experiments. Thomas is now on leave in California...
Eliminating the subcommittee would be a backwards step in the Med School's effort to desegregate a traditionally white and male profession. The review committee the Med School faculty has appointed to deal with the issue should realize this, and send Paul packing to make sure his recruitment and admissions processes maintain and exceed the high standards they've already achieved...