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Ritalin-type drugs, which have a broadly stimulating effect on the nervous system, clearly improve attention and memory. According to a 2002 study of helicopter pilots operating flight simulators, so does donepezil, a drug that raises levels of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. In another study, men on 200 mg of modafinil did better at mentally challenging games than subjects taking a placebo. But those results must be kept in perspective. Research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md., found that neither modafinil nor the military pilots' go pills were any better than several cups of coffee...
...MG: Yes, there’s a very rich dialogue—they’re our arts partners. I think of Quincy Street as the arts corridor of Harvard and we have strong connections with the art museums, with the history of art department, with the school of design. We’re talking to people from these places all the time, and there are incoming projects that we have done and are planning to do, so we’re all connected to the business of trying to make art and art-making more central to the Harvard...
...MG: As its name implies, “Visual and Environmental Studies” is an interdisciplinary department. Remember that most of our junior faculty are joint-appointed, teaching concurrently in departments such as History of Art and Architecture, Anthropology, English, and Comparative Literature. Many of our senior faculty these days are joint appointed, as well, with departments such as German and Romance Languages and English?...
...MG: It’s just a gorgeous building, it’s a landmark building, and it’s one that was built for artisans, artists – all these windows are designed to see through, so you can look across and see people who are making sculpture, making paintings. But in the future, when there’s Allston, we’re hoping that there may be a theater space there, maybe a studio space… We think an arts complex there is really essential, and we’re hoping to have some...
...film and visual studies. We will offer graduate courses starting next fall, moving towards what we hope would be a PhD program.THC: Would the purpose of additional faculty be to offer VES students a broader variety of courses, or to offer non-concentrators the opportunity to take these classes?MG: There’s a kind of expectation that you have to be a concentrator in order to get into those courses, but actually that’s not at all true. We take freshmen very regularly, faculty are free to admit any person that they like into an enrollment...