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...traditionally and historically perhaps the highest academic award or honor that we have,” Coakley said. Students are first selected for candidacy based on their GPA, according to Coakley. Students are divided into one of three broad areas—social sciences, humanities, or natural sciences??based on their concentration, and a GPA cutoff is then established for each area. Coakley said the committe looks at grades, difficulty of courses on the transcript, and evidence of other outstanding achievements. Students accepted into the society said they were grateful for the honor and excited to be recognized...
...this field, the university must be proactive in seeking non-traditional sources of financial support, including philanthropic foundations and alumni champions. Although the challenges to each field are distinct—NTD research necessitates significant contributions from basic science, while global health delivery science is rooted in the social sciences??the opportunities for productive synergies between NTD and delivery research initiatives are numerous, including collaborations in the development of research capacity overseas. Many Harvard professors, including Jim Kim, Bruce Walker, Dyann Wirth, Sue Goldie and Paul Farmer have made extensive contributions to these fields...
...follows a campaign at Harvard to increase access to scholarly articles published by members of the faculty. A proposal by the Faculty Council—the highest governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences??in September 2007 proposed that scholarly work be immediately placed online for free access...
...told stories about his compassionate, offbeat personality. Hillel Rabbi Akiva Herzfeld delivered a religiously-focused eulogy, in which he characterized Meyers as a “beautiful” spirit. He said the death of Meyers—who was studying classics at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences??was a “loss to the world.” “Isaac was a person whose life in this world was filled with acts of tremendous ‘chesed,’ [or] goodness,” Herzfeld said...
...write to respond to some of the conclusions presented in “Students Defect from Sciences?? (news article, Feb. 7). The article makes many important points about sources of student dissatisfaction in the sciences, including large course sizes and an overly competitive environment. We are well aware of these problems. The new (as of 2006-07) Life Sciences concentrations are, as the article notes, one way of addressing some of these issues. In the smaller concentrations, each with a dedicated advising staff and more access to faculty, our goal is to provide an intellectual and human environment...