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...General Education areas. Moreover, as Etienne Benson, a graduate student who chairs Harvard’s animal history group, notes, the multidisciplinary nature of animal studies fosters dialogue. At a recent meeting of the group, Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Darwin scholar Janet Browne engaged with MIT cultural historian Harriet Ritvo on the history of sheep domestication in England...
...Muslim student at MIT, who also asked to remain anonymous to preserve his relationship with the Islamic community, said the chaplain’s remarks wrongly suggested that only Westerners and Westernized Muslims who did not fully understand Islam would find the killing of apostates objectionable...
More than 90 students and activists from Harvard, MIT, and the Greater Boston area hoisted picket signs in Harvard Square on Friday afternoon to protest the incumbent Communist Party’s victory in Moldova’s general parliamentary elections last week. Accusations of electoral fraud sparked peaceful protests throughout the former communist satellite state the day after the election, but the situation quickly escalated to violent riots and retaliations by authorities. By Tuesday, Moldova had reached a state of unrest that remains perilous to citizens and journalists, according to media reports. Friday’s demonstration in Cambridge...
...Harvard men’s lightweight rowers swept Dartmouth and MIT to win the Biglin Bowl, and the heavyweight team took three out of five races from Brown to capture the Stein Cup Saturday morning on the Charles River. The second-ranked lightweight varsity eight never trailed en route to a 12.1 second win over Dartmouth. The Crimson led by a length at the halfway point and continued to stretch the lead for the duration of the course. The win improves the varsity eight to 6-0.The second varsity eight followed suit by getting ahead early and never trailing...
When Cherry A. Murray was applying to college, she says her older brother, then a physics graduate student at MIT, told her, “There’s no way you can succeed in physics, and definitely not at MIT.” So she went to MIT. And majored in physics.Today she is a world-renowned physicist, president of the American Physical Society, and the incoming Dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a role she assumes at time of great financial turmoil for Harvard’s schools.But colleagues say Murray?...