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...genome, and their canvass the brain. Lichtman and his colleague Joshua R. Sanes, both molecular and cellular biology professors at Harvard, are mapping neurons with a pioneering method, dubbed “brainbow” for its psychedelic appearance. Already, the technique—recently honored with a Nobel Prize in chemistry—is shedding light on the development of the human mind, and how disorders such as Alzheimer’s and even anxiety alter the brain.“To get an idea of how the wiring of the brain changes, we have to figure...
...women. And clearly, it's working for her. Her two most recent performances - as Hanna Schmitz, the illiterate former concentration-camp guard in The Reader, and as April Wheeler, the anguished, rageful 1950s wife and mother in Revolutionary Road - have earned her two Golden Globes, a Screen Actors Guild prize, a British Academy Award (BAFTA) and her sixth Oscar nomination, a benchmark that no actor so young has ever before reached. (See the Oscar's youngest Best Actress nominees...
...plan’s failure to answer these questions is not merely a matter of benign vagueness, which Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has called “no harm, no foul.” It is rather a watershed moment that could determine the future of this potential public-private relationship as the United States continues to grapple with recession. Like Harrison’s hasty actions in March 1933, Geithner’s imprecision risks alienating those with whom he hopes to partner...
...nominee in this year’s election, Walter K. Clair ’77, who is a professor at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said he was contacted by the alumni association several months before candidates were announced to gauge his interest in serving as an Overseer. Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and former Crimson editor Linda J. Greenhouse ’68—who for three decades covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times until her retirement last year—was perhaps the most high-profile figure on the HAA roster...
...list two self-nominated candidates, who had to petition for over 200 alumni signatures to be considered in the election. Such write-in candidates have historically faced an uphill battle in the voting process. The last self-nominated candidate to win a seat on the board was Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist Desmond Tutu...