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...Pellegrino University Professor Peter Galison wrote on this page at the end of the last academic year that “Allston is the hope and promise of Harvard’s long-term future. Getting it right will shape the character of the University for generations. But we could easily get it wrong...
Peter L. Galison ’77 is Pellegrino University Professor...
...learning curve as they adjust to the new curriculum.“I think it’s a mistake to expect that every detail will be worked out and that one can design a program with perfect foresight,” said science historian Peter L. Galison, the Pellegrino university professor. “There will be modifications that will be introduced and that’s fine and good.”Charles S. Maier, the Saltonstall professor of history, said implementation will be a “long-term effort?...
...expressed concern that fundamental disagreements about the future of general education at Harvard remain. “I don’t think we are of a common mind about whether we will allow advanced courses or not,” Professor of Physics and Astronomy Christopher Stubbs said. Pellegrino University Professor Peter L. Galison said that if all advanced departmental courses could be counted for general education credit, the Faculty “would immediately and without qualification have a distribution requirement, rendering useless everything we have discussed.” Since professors lacked a quorum when they gathered...
...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—will announce the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species today. The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project long supported by Harvard’s Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson, aims to compile information on over 1.8 million species and make it universally accessible free of charge, according to Laura Cinnamon, a spokeswoman for the project. Harvard has already promised over $5 million, which will go towards education, outreach, and the creation of a digital...