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...draft Summers has sketched. Instead, Summers’ audacious approach, far more than the specifics of his views, may be his greatest legacy to Harvard. His approach has already laid the groundwork for a science-oriented, interdisciplinary campus in Allston and encouraged members of the Harvard College Curricular Review to adopt the same interdisciplinary approach to introductory undergraduate courses. It was the president’s outspokenness that spurred even the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), which for the past year has defined itself in opposition to Summers, to assert itself in ways that will have a lasting influence...
...have certainty when it comes to the Harvard College Curricular Review, but it is clear that there is lively consensus about the need for courses with interdisciplinary breadth and disciplinary depth, and humanities faculty are eager to teach them...
...officials at HSCI, will each lead a team of researchers in an attempt to use a process called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to create disease- and patient-specific stem cell lines from cloned embryos.The research was approved after more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review by eight separate boards, said University Provost Steven E. Hyman at a press conference yesterday.If successful, the research will represent one of the most significant advances in the field. While preliminary SCNT work has been done at the University of California-San Francisco and by Advanced Cell Technology, a private biotechnology...
...some success through a system of faculty-led tutorial and conference courses; its student-faculty ratio of less than 7 to 1 helps as well. The number of freshman seminars has soared, Harvard is midway through an effort to expand the Faculty by 15 percent, and the ongoing curricular review aims to increase faculty-student interactions by raising the number of small classes and promoting opportunities that foster such dialogue. But most of the curricular review has focused on sexier issues like general education. The future of the Core Curriculum is admittedly important, but expending so much breath...
...Greenhouse, who lived in North House—now Pforzheimer—writes in an e-mail.She was one of three freshmen to be elected to The Crimson in 1964. She later rose to be the paper’s features editor and the editor of the Confidential Guide, a review of courses published by The Crimson. But she was unable to gain admission to the Signet, the arts and letters society that included many Crimson editors at the time, and she says that fact “really rankled” her. The Signet first opened its doors to female...