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Biology professor Susan L. Lindquist was honored with a doctor of science. Lindquist, who received her Ph.D. in biology from Harvard in 1977 , teaches at MIT and focuses her research on complex molecular protein folding and the phenomenon's role in cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other diseases...
...simply much too easy to live life in the shadows, to avoid conclusion. We simply nod and halfheartedly agree with most statements. Think about it: We are much more likely to agree than disagree with whatever is said to our face. It’s just easier. This phenomenon is well documented. In How We Know What Isn’t So, Cornell psychologist Thomas Gilovich describes the human tendency to surround ourselves with those people who are most likely to agree with our established opinions. The result is that we all simply nod and nod and become more...
...Olympics in the triple jump—which he turned down to focus on soccer—but would go on to be one of the most decorated track and field athletes in Harvard history, holding the triple jump record for four decades. “He was a phenomenon,” Malin said...
...Faulkner and O’Connor.” The 72-page typewritten work argues that the New South’s emerging identity is manifested in the literature of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor via the motif of children that age too quickly, a phenomenon O’Brien termed “literary progeria...
...Every March Madness, I find myself completing the men’s bracket while just acknowledging the front-runners of the women’s pool. But as a graduating female athlete at Harvard, I look back on my four years and am dumbfounded as to why this phenomenon occurs on both a professional and collegiate level...