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...experiment was under $100. Although the technique has yet to be tested in the clinic, Garraway believes his results have clinical potential as a rapid, cost-effective and accurate means of diagnosing cancer. He said that his discoveries point towards a day when tumor profiles will allow doctors to select the best cancer drugs for their patients. “When fully implemented clinically this approach will usher in an age of truly personalized cancer treatment, based on an exact understanding of the genetic changes and vulnerabilities present in an individual’s cancer,” wrote Myles...
...students will be forced to take classes that fulfill strict general education requirements regardless of their background or interests.This is particularly problematic in more technical fields, where the gulf between an introductory course and a departmental course is widest. To force students with extensive backgrounds in the sciences to select from courses that “do not strive to train students to become future scientists or to enable students to take more advanced science classes” simply to get a “real world connection” is patronizing. Similarly, a Math 55 alum required to take...
...will of course miss her tremendously, but we rest easy in the knowledge that Faust will select the next dean of the Radcliffe Institute. We cannot imagine that decision resting in better hands,” members of the institute said in a collective statement released yesterday...
Finally, the third perspective, leadership for Harvard in the 21st century: Harvard stands out among other major American universities because it is the oldest, wealthiest, and most decentralized. I once remarked to a new Harvard president, “You have only two powers—the ability to select deans, and the bully pulpit. And you have the bully pulpit because Harvard may or may not be the greatest university in America, but it is certainly the greatest in the world. And the world will be watching what...
...Richard H. Brodhead: “What a foolish question. I already have a great job”) and others with a gasp of exasperation (head of Penn Amy Gutmann ’71, who made it deep into the search that resulted in Lawrence H. Summers’ selection six years ago: “I am absolutely committed to being Penn’s president, and I am not interested in any other presidency”).Such denials have become standard in presidential searches of elite institutions as university leaders, facing pressure from trustees and other groups...