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...McCarty said. “That’s a key element that’s missing here...We have to create something where someone has an incentive to get the faculty to get their book orders in.”The chair of the statistics department, Xiao-Li Meng, proposed an alternative solution to that problem. Meng suggested that every department appoint a staff person to remind professors to send their book titles to the Coop and collect information on those books. Such a procedure already exists in the statistics department, Meng said. “I view this...
...suffering from high blood pressure. Nor is he. At its peak two years ago, Ho's blood pressure clocked in at 140/90, slightly above normal but not high enough to elicit a pill or much alarm. But when he went to see Dr. Ting Choon Meng, the Singapore general practitioner decided to monitor Ho's blood pressure with a black plastic wristwatch he had designed and named the BPro. The device, worn for 24 hours, revealed a wave pattern showing how fast and hard his heart was beating, as well as worrying patterns in Ho's pressure. Ting...
...Statistics Department celebrated its 50th anniversary this weekend with a two-day symposium, uniting professors, students, and alums with a shared passion for data sets, regressions, and standard deviations. The event kicked off on Friday morning with speeches from Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng, Dean for the Physical Sciences Jeremy Bloxham, and University President Drew G. Faust, among others. The celebration featured panels on how sectors of the field have changed over the past 50 years, and speakers sought to show the impact that Harvard statistics faculty have had within their discipline. The weekend’s proceedings also served...
...report’s recommendations.Thomas F. Kelly, Knafel professor of music, said he feared that the task force’s ideas might simply remain “a very handsome report that we will remember for a great many years.”Statistics Department Chair Xiao-Li Meng, another of the report’s authors, said he was optimistic.“We need to put all our beautiful minds together to come with practical and sustainable strategies for teaching,” he said.OTHER BUSINESSTen members of the Faculty have already been chosen to assist President...
...must have been a relief. Last week China issued a report outlining the discovery of large mineral deposits that could significantly reduce its economy's growing dependence on imports. The finds "will fundamentally alleviate the serious bottleneck and big restrictions our country faces with regard to mineral resources," said Meng Xianlai, director of the China Geological Survey...