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Upholding a commitment the University made earlier this year to support developing nations by providing new technologies, the Harvard Technology Development Office and a microbiology researcher have agreed to help distribute novel vaccine-production techniques to communities in need. John J. Mekalanos, chair of the Harvard Medical School??s Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, developed a cheaper, faster technique for manufacturing conjugate vaccines, which protect against multiple diseases caused by bacteria such as pneumococcus, which can cause everything from ear infections to pneumonia. The vaccines’ capacity to protect against a variety of diseases at once...
...stunned to see almost every person that I am related to on earth sitting here in the first four rows. And I would like to offer a special greeting of my own to my teachers who are here—teachers from grade school, high school, college and graduate school??teachers, who taught me to love learning and the institutions that nurture...
...small scale, Harvard could open its shuttles to residents; extend bike paths and green streets into the neighborhood; allow the local elementary school??which currently lacks art space—to have consistent access to the new museum...
...monitor students’ online activity for illegal file-sharing. The bill echoes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) proposal, which was withdrawn in July after vocal opposition from universities and across the country. Wendy Seltzer ’96, a fellow at Harvard Law School??s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, wrote in an e-mail that such legislation could “limit academic freedom” because existing software cannot distinguish between legal and illegal downloading, and would place pressure on universities. “It would require them to allocate...
...students tuition, is intimately acquainted with tuition-free models. His grandmother started the Curtis Institute of Music—one of the most prestigious music schools in the world—which has never charged tuition. But Bok says that because of the different socioeconomic demographics of each school??the Curtis Institute has very few students who are very wealthy—different tuition models are warranted.“Should we allow the really wealthiest families in America to send their children to Harvard for free?” he asks. “I think even...