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Ending their Harvard careers on a high note, 55 senior were awarded the 1997-98 Hoopes Prize, the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday...
Endowed by Thomas T. Hoopes '19, the Hoopes Prize was founded to recognize "excellence in undergraduate work" which takes the form of a long-tern project, often a senior thesis, Winners receive a $2,500 cash award...
...order to be considered for the prize, a student must be nominated by a member of the teaching staff who supervised the project. In addition to the $2,500 cash prize award to the student, the nominating teacher also receives a $750 stipend...
...About 99.9 percent of the nominations are theses, but they don't have to be theses," said Deborah Foster, the assistant dean for undergraduate education and director of the Hoopes Prize...
...well as in cancer. So disrupting them could cause harm. "Whether the therapy is going to be a major advance, a modest improvement or a disappointment is not clear," says Dr. J. Michael Bishop, molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who shared a 1989 Nobel Prize with Dr. Harold Varmus for their pioneering work on oncogenes. But Bishop is impressed that the field is moving so swiftly, and most researchers are convinced that they are at least on the right track. Says Joseph Schlessinger, a New York University scientist who helped develop SU101: "Early in the next...