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...during the term, perhaps less if the lab is located off-campus. During the summer, however, students can work on their research project full time. This focused experience allows them to become immersed in the research culture at Harvard and more fully integrated into their research group. Taking part in regular group meetings or simply engaging in informal conversations with experienced researchers often leads to new ideas and insights in the practice of science. Moreover, having the uninterrupted time to conduct significant experiments and to collect, analyze, and discuss data is more likely to yield meaningful results. These results...
...fundamental component of the College’s educational mission. Indeed, as one of the foremost research institutions in the world, Harvard must meet the challenge of ensuring that all undergraduates at Harvard, and especially those in the sciences, have the opportunity to engage in research as part of their education...
...seems one of her goals is to be dean without giving up being an academic,” Manning says. “She thinks of teaching and writing as part...
What does it mean for science to be an integral part of a liberal-arts education? How does understanding science productively complement the ability to read Shakespeare closely or to dissect a painter’s artistic intent? Part of the answer rests on the intellectual value of tackling a wide range of problems, hence gaining broad facility with ideas drawn from many fields. Problems are infamously disrespectful of boundaries, and thus solutions often demand openness to the approaches and lessons learned from seemingly disparate fields. To focus one’s intellectual passion is clearly worthwhile...
Interdisciplinarity does not replace deep and detailed engagement with individual fields; rather, it provides freshmen with an engaging context that motivates the in-depth pursuit of a particular science. Thus, not only does science belong as an integral part of a liberal-arts curriculum, but the fundamental principles of the liberal-arts approach are fully convergent with the interdisciplinary teaching of science. It is time we stopped viewing science as simply one of several specialized plug-ins that go into a liberal-arts curriculum and focused instead on the benefits of integrative thinking both within the natural sciences and between...