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...former faculty dean for medical education at HMS, Goldman played a leading role in replacing the school’s traditional, lecture-focused teaching style with problem-based learning, an innovative approach that presents medical students with problems to be solved in a tutorial manner. The method is still in use today...
...slipped into the wound-healing business in a roundabout way. Schultz was studying uncontrolled cancer growth and teaching biochemistry at the University of Louisville in 1985 when a student who had worked in a burn unit suggested that the way cells respond to cancer could point to a new method to help burn victims heal without their wounds becoming infected. The notion intrigued Schultz and led to the invention of his antibacterial bandages 20 years later...
...corn tortilla products per day find themselves in the greatest risk bracket for passing neural-tube defects to their offspring. Researchers found that women with NTD-positive children ate more tortillas on average during their pregnancy than those who did not. Suarez defended the study’s method of asking women to recall the quantity of tortillas consumed over the past year, claiming the margin of error due to inaccurate memory was approximately the same for mothers of NTD-positive children as for mothers in the control group. When asked what effect this study might have on the consumption...
...integrate them into the greater Harvard community,” says Jaffe.This approach to the study of art has its roots in the early 1930s, when the building at 32 Quincy Street first pioneered the “Fogg method”: a revolutionary approach to art history. This method, which has since been adopted by other institutions in the same realm of academia, “uses the scientific method to study art, giving you a one-on-one encounter with what you’re studying,” says Paolo J. A. Yap ’07.This...
...born, we don’t know where we are. We find ourselves in the locations of shape, form, knowledge, art,” says Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Tom Conley. Such creatively provocative statements characterize Conley’s artistic and critical method: he examines the world through unexpected lenses, bringing forth questions and meanings that might otherwise remain undiscovered. Born in New Haven, Conn., and raised by parents who did not attend college, Conley never expected to find himself at Harvard as a professor and co-master of Kirkland House. After studying at Lawrence...