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While much of Assistant Professor of Geochemistry Sujoy Mukhopadhyay’s work might seem rather esoteric—he uses noble gasses as geochemical tracers to study the Earth’s processes and history—his research findings may help scientists understand everything from global warming to desertification in Africa. Colleagues say that Mukhopadhyay is not the type to focus on one specific interest or area of research. Instead, he uses noble gasses—a group of inert, unreactive elements—as a tool to study a variety of geologic processes...
...door to office M314 in the Mallinckrodt Chemsitry lab is open. Through the doorway sits a large, smudgy whiteboard—just begging to be written on. And across from that whiteboard, behind a chic, silver-grey desk sits Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Tobias Ritter. Though Ritter has the difficult job of teaching the second half of the notoriously grueling Chem 20-Chem 30 sequence of organic chemistry, his Q ratings glow—a breathtaking 4.7 for fall 2007-2008. “I take every single student as seriously as I do my colleagues...
Steven Shapin, a History of Science professor who was also elected, said he will “continue to do teaching research and writing as much as I have been...
...comes a beautiful but deadly bronze pike head, from some indeterminate Chinese dynasty. One thing is for sure: Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature, is full of surprises...
Harvard Law School Professor Michael J. Klarman, another of the new honorees, said the award is likely due to his book “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” which won the Bancroft Prize...