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...assume since she was successful enough as provost at Yale to be courted a vice chancellor at Cambridge, she’s very much the sort of person that would do well as a university president here.” said Ford II Professor of Human Evolution David R. Pilbeam, who taught Richard as an undergraduate at Cambridge in the late 1960s...
...Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07 is a history concentrator in Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...previous notion that the heart’s different cell types are so diverse that they must generate from disparate sources. “This is the first study that shows that a single cell can give rise to all cardiac tissues and structures,” said Kenneth R. Chien ’73, the senior author of the paper and the director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at MGH, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. Current therapies for recovering damaged heart tissue due to disorders such as heart attacks involve injection of bone marrow or blood cells...
...Leah R. Lussier ’07, the alumni coordinator for Native Americans at Harvard College—citing research conducted by Stephanie Fryberg at the University of Arizona—said there is a negative emotional and psychological toll on Native American students at schools that use Native American imagery...
...fact, in response to public pressure about discrimination and quotas in 1988, Harvard’s Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 asserted that “while Asian Americans are slightly stronger than whites on academic criteria, they are slightly less strong on extracurricular criteria.” These comments are eerily reminiscent of the stereotyping of Jews in attempts to limit their enrollment in the early 20th century...