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Healthy prion proteins spur the formation of brain cells, according to a new study published in the Proccedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Harvard-affiliated researchers. Prior to the study, which was conducted in the laboratory of MIT Professor Susan L. Lindquist at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, investigations had focused on the importance of the abnormal folding of certain prions, often associated with “mad cow” disease. This abnormal structure results in the inability of the proteins to be broken down by enzymes, and subsequently in the accumulation of the protein...
More than 90 mountaineers, competing in categories that ranged from “Good” to “Wicked Good,” participated in the fourth annual MIT Climbing Competition held this weekend at MIT’s Bouldering Wall...
Although Harvard usually has a large and notable presence at the event, according to organizers at MIT, this year’s competition only included five Harvard students...
...genuine intellectual.” As director of undergraduate studies, Buck’s central responsibilities were supervising the tutorial program and advising undergraduates. Buck first began teaching as a junior faculty member at Harvard in 1966. He left the University to teach for ten years at MIT, but returned to Harvard in 1987 when he was appointed dean of the summer school and became a member of the History of Science department. Buck said the department only included three faculty members, 30 undergraduates, and 20 graduate students when he first joined. Today, the numbers have risen to more than...
...Derek C. Bok, an articulate leader of this University and of American higher education for 20 years. Other admirable leaders in the recent past include Vartan Gregorian at Brown University, William G. Bowen at Princeton University, Nannerl O. Keohane at Duke University, and Charles M. Vest at MIT. Nor is there a dearth of impressive leaders today: Leon Botstein of Bard University has been a vigorous spokesperson on a variety of issues for many years, and Shirley M. Tilghman has already put a distinctive mark on Princeton University in a much shorter period of time.This is neither the time...