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...Steven Shapin, a History of Science professor who was also elected, said he will “continue to do teaching research and writing as much as I have been...
Food experts dispelled the notion that locally-grown food is necessarily more costly and explained the recent interest in sustainability at a panel discussion yesterday hosted by the Harvard Culinary Society, Real Food Harvard, and the Food Literacy Project. Panelist and History of Science professor Steven Shapin, who teaches a class on the “History of Dietetics, noted the “immense popularity of food porn,” attributing the increased interest in ingredient origins to the media’s recent focus on the culinary world. “Fewer people sit down...
...Some students regard the thesis as a crowning achievement and others quite frankly feel like they could benefit from more coursework,” Shapin said...
...Medicine and Society,” one of the two honors-only subfields within the “Science and Society” track, allows students to combine medical school requirements with a more holistic look at health through a social and humanities angle. Shapin said that the creation of this option reflects the trend of senior theses about biomedicine’s role in the modern world...
...While the department wants to expand—“everyone hopes that there will be more concentrators,” Shapin said—the department still wants to preserve its best attributes...