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...Guide who was helping advise this year’s editors. According to an e-mail sent to students by Harris, the new version of the Q Guide will contain extensive numerical data and the full text of all student responses to the question of whether students would recommend the course to their peers. “Regardless of the merits of this new system, we feel that the reduction of the Q Guide to only numerical evaluations and one full-text response will be detrimental to the informed choice of courses by students,” said a statement...
...hopes the Fund will “seed some very good ideas” while strengthening existing community projects. According to Michael F. Glavin, the BRA’s deputy director for institutional development, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino appointed a seven-member advisory committee to review and recommend proposals for BRA approval. The committee, which includes three members of the Harvard Allston Task Force, will be accepting grant proposals for the upcoming year through April 30. “The mayor wanted to have other faces, other names, and other perspectives,” Glavin said, explaining...
...immune cells that HIV uses to replicate and then systematically destroys - ranged between 351 and 500 cells per cubic mm of blood. These patients were compared with those who decided to defer therapy until their counts dipped below 350 cells per cubic mm, the level at which current guidelines recommend starting drug treatment...
Speaking of change, I recommend Michael Grunwald's fascinating and exclusive story about how the President and his team are using behavioral science to facilitate change in America. Their strategy is based on the idea that social science can guide people to make better and healthier choices for themselves, whether it means buying that long-lasting lightbulb or shunning that Twinkie. Facilitating change harnesses some principles that behavioral scientists have known for decades: we're a lot more irrational than we realize; we avoid pain more than we seek comfort; we tend to stick with the status...
Kenen added that the curriculum will undergo a review in 2012, five years after the Gen Ed vote in May 2007—the committee that conducts the review may recommend to the Faculty that the number of categories be reduced, depending on the results in the next few years...