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...grant to increase faculty pay. A week later, Radcliffe raises room rent for 1957 by $10-$15.2/15: The largest proton accelerator in the world is under construction at Brookhaven, Long Island. The machine will be operated by Harvard and eight other institutions. Two days later, Harvard and MIT commit to building a $4 million lab, sharing operations of the giant ‘704’ computer.2/20: Drawings of the radcliffe graduate refectory were finalized. The refectory is the second building of the quadrangle to be constructed and will contain dining facilities for the graduate school as well...
Summers’ statement on the British boycott evokes echoes of his September 2002 Memorial Church address, in which he excoriated a group of Harvard and MIT professors who had called on the University to cut financial ties to Israel. “Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent,” Summers said at the time...
...institution. So, too, will they free DEAS’ hands to work with other parts of the University, both through the status change to a “school” and the addition of jointly-endowed professorships. For Harvard to compete with schools such as Princeton, Caltech, and MIT in attracting top students and professors, DEAS must expand both its faculty and its international prominence. Making it easier for undergraduate engineering concentrators to take a fifth year to complete their more rigorous requirements is important, too, as the move would enable these students to take more liberal arts electives...
...full-time faculty will expand by approximately 30 positions—through joint appointments with other graduate schools and FAS positions—to bring the total faculty size to 100. By contrast, CalTech and Princeton have cultivated faculties of more than 100 professors, and cross-town competitor MIT has nearly 360 engineering faculty, according to Venky. Keeping with tradition, the school will not segregate into academic departments under the plan. In addition, the new school will allow DEAS professors to better collaborate internally with Harvard’s other professional schools, Venky said. “I think this...
...biologically feasible, but things might have turned out differently if he had been a chimpanzee. After early human and chimpanzee ancestors branched off from a common ancestor, they may have mated to create a hybrid species, according to a new study by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard published in the journal Nature last week. The study also found that the divergence between humans and chimps occurred nearly a million years later than previously estimated. “The thing that we’ve shown very solidly is there was a complex speciation between humans...