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...have deepened the contrast between undergraduate and graduate education—the latter being inevitably more professional—and tempted many to look at the undergraduates as pre-professionals who need to become specialized early, which is a mistake: the laborious exhilaration of learning a profession should not push aside the broadening of the minds and horizons of the undergraduates, which will make them deeper and subtler specialists later. Thanks to the charismatic Homi Bhabha, the Humanities Center is helping to lower the often artificial barriers among disciplines...
...years ago, National Institutes of Health Director Elias A. Zerhouni deplored the nation’s efforts in translational science, the process of using basic scientific research to improve patient care. Later that year, Zerhouni announced a major NIH-led initiative to address the problems in translational science, a push that paid off for Harvard last week when the University landed a major grant to fund its efforts in the area, according to a Harvard Medical School spokesman.Medical School professor Lee M. Nadler will lead the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) in a University-wide initiative designed...
...President headquarters in Dubuque, Iowa with some volunteers and a field organizer, Elliot, who had been canvassing neighborhoods and knocking on doors for months. The Iowa caucuses were days away, and I had flown in with Institute of Politics Forum Director Bill White to help out with the final push...
...bringing more technology to bear on the challenges, increasing the number of police officers in the streets, and driving down crime. We’re one of the top cities in American now on drops in murders and shootings in our city...There’s just a big push on every level, but the good thing is that we are hitting a lot of singles and doubles for our city. Even a few home runs...
...Capitol Hill, she helped push through a slew of education policies during the early years of Bill Clinton’s presidency, displaying a relentless drive to shepherd legislation through the halls of Congress, according to Suzanne Day, who worked next door to Spencer and later came to Harvard at her urging...