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Endless Variety. At the University of Wisconsin, a group headed by a distinguished Indian-born molecular biologist, Har Gobind Khorana. 47, reported that it had achieved the first artificial synthesis of a gene-the basic unit of heredity in the nuclei of all cells. Although genetic material has been made in the laboratory before, scientists have always had to use at least some natural cellular material in the process. The Wisconsin achievement marks the first time that a single gene has been created entirely out of off-the-shelf chemicals...
...motion approved by the Faculty- proposed initially by Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, with amendments by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, and Mark Ptashne, lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular. Biology- provides several options...
Members of the Committee on Students and Community Relations, including six Faculty members who are not on the Council. are: Dunlop, chairman; Mark Ptashne, lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Edwin O. Reischaner, University Professor; (members not on the Council) Edward L. Keenan '57, lecturer on History: Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government: Lee Rainwater, professor of Sociology; Doris H. Kearns, assistant professor of Government; Myron B. Fiering '55. Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics; and Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry...
Natural Science, tenured: Nicholas Bloembergen, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics; Andrew M. Gleason, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology. Nontenured: Ronald V. Book, assistant professor of Computer Sciences, and Mark Ptashne, lecturer on Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...
Nevertheless, some interesting ideas remained buried in the curriculum. One was the University Course. Another was inter-departmental concentration. Some of these fields (Applied Mathematics, and Molecular Biology) were not novel, at least by Harvard standards. But others were truly interdisciplinary, like Ancient Civilization or International Relations, and offered the possibility of release from the established concerns of traditional departments. A third idea was independent study, which was authorized for all students, including freshmen. Students who had "demonstrated ability to profit" from independent work could take two courses each term in this manner...