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...these effects is that Harvard is graduating fewer science concentrators than it ought to. The exact number of defections is difficult to finger, but Harvard’s own published numbers can give a rough sense. Many students enter Harvard expressing an interest in concentrating in science??Harvard news releases from the past few years state that just under half of matriculating students are prospective life science, physical science, mathematics, engineering, or computer science concentrators. Meanwhile, a tabulation of data in this year’s Handbook for Students shows that just over a quarter of students with...
...When I said to Mike, would you consider doing a job like this, he said the thing worried him most was the thought of him having to give up his undergraduate teaching.” Last night, Faust and her husband—Charles Rosenberg, a historian of science??went out to dinner with Smith and his wife—Chris K. Smith, owner of the Capstone Mortage Company in Lexington.This was the first time the four have broken bread. Perhaps up for discussion, along with the future of Harvard’s Faculty, was Smith?...
Even this year, through Clayton’s presence as a visiting professor, students at HDS as well as the College were able to test the waters of the field through Clayton’s two classes—“Rethinking Religion in Light of Contemporary Science?? and “Scientific Perspectives on Consciousness and Religious Experience...
...Donald Knuth, a laureate of computer science??s highest honor, the Turing Award, wrote a long letter to his colleagues on the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Algorithms in protest of climbing prices and restrictions on access. After consultation, they followed a dozen other journals’ editors before them by resigning en masse and forming a new open-access journal with a friendlier publisher. Similarly, the Open Access Law Program has 34 law journals (and counting), pledged to making the legal scholarship they publish freely available...
...book “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science?? was a finalist for the National Book Award, and in 2006 he received the MacArthur “genius grant” for his research and writing...