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...complaining, but I certainly don’t feel that Harvard faculty are especially pampered or privileged compared to faculty at other, similar universities,” Elizabeth Spelke, who is Berkman professor of psychology and has worked at Penn, Cornell, and MIT in the past, writes in an e-mail.Professors with children say they do not have sufficient access to daycare and do not receive the same financial support that their colleagues at other schools get for their children’s tuition.And many female professors say they are especially concerned about what they call Harvard’s lack...
...Sigma Alpha Epsilon Philanthropy Chair Justin A. Monticello ’09 said. He added that his fraternity placed eighth in the Boston area, raising more than $3,400. Harvard organized the event with Boston College and Boston University and put forth 30 of the 120 teams. MIT, Simmons, Emerson, and Wellesley were also represented by teams at the relay. While Relay for Life takes place at different venues all over the country, the Cambridge area relay at Gordon Track is one of the ten largest college relays, Co-Director of the Harvard Relay, Hanzich said. Each team was responsible...
Last Friday, a team of researchers primarily from the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT published a report that may bring scientists much closer to finally understanding how embryonic stem (ES) cells differentiate themselves, with potential implications for future regenerative therapies. Every cell in the human body contains the same genes, but the cells in a particular type of tissue will only have the master regulatory genes associated with that tissue type activated. For example, if a cell is a muscle tissue cell, it will only have the master regulatory genes for muscle tissue activated and will have other master...
...contemporary environmentalist movement faces a stark choice: change tactics or fade into irrelevance. Over the past decade, environmentalists have achieved few political victories and utterly failed to influence the general public. As indicated by a recent MIT study, the public knows little about environmental problems, and cares less. Out of 21 national and international issues, Americans ranked environmental problems 13th, well below terrorism, taxes, crime, and drugs...
Though Pinker says he finds Harvard’s intellectual atmosphere stimulating, his move here required some sacrifices. He is required to teach one more class here each semester, for instance, than he taught at MIT...