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Elie Wiesel, who won the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for his writings on the Holocaust, spoke last night about the need to combat religious fanaticism through education to a packed crowd in Memorial Church...
...different approach to Alzheimer's is being pursued at Memory Pharmaceuticals. Drawing on Nobel-prizewinning research by co-founder Eric Kandel, the company hopes to develop drugs that reverse dementia, memory loss, depression and schizophrenia. Chief executive Tony Scullion says it has already developed a drug that fights Alzheimer's by restoring the process by which short-term memories are logged in for long-term recall. Swiss drug firm Roche is now testing it on humans, with clinical results expected in the near future...
Physically, but even more so in the minds of those who study there, Widener Library is the heart of Harvard. Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, has termed visiting Widener “an almost ineffable experience.” Nobel Prize winner Dudley Herschenbach described the construction as “a huge Mayan temple.” He also wrote of “the spiritual impact” of entering the stacks, those “sacred, otherworldly precincts.” Even the recently completed renovations, which have made the library easier to navigate...
...word before opening this greasy, sweaty, gyrating can of worms. Wolfe has a purpose here, which is set out even before the novel begins. In an untitled section before the novel’s Prologue we are told of Victor Ransome Starling, Charlotte’s Nobel Prizewinning professor. His famous experiment on cats demonstrated that control animals in the presence of those biologically induced to engage in rampant sex did so too simply because of environmental pressures to conform. “In that moment,” Wolfe writes, “originated a discovery that has since...
Best known for his holocaust novel Night, writer Elie Wiesel—a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald—has also written over 40 other books. He is also a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace (1986) and the Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities at Boston University. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, free for undergrads and grad students. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Church...