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...person-to-person transmissibility of H1N1. The researchers calculate that every person infected by the virus will go on to infect 1.3 to 1.7 other people on average. (That number will probably be higher for schoolchildren - in one outbreak at a private school in New York City in the spring, each sick student infected 2.4 classmates.) As flus go, that makes H1N1 more transmissible than most - on par with the moderate 1957 Asian flu pandemic - which makes it particularly important to get a large chunk of the population vaccinated early...
After a dormant period, the Standing Committee on Ethnic Studies is meeting again, boasting increased faculty participation, a book of courses, and a pair of visiting professors, while looking ahead to the creation of a General Education portal course and even a secondary field.Until this past spring, the Standing Committee had not met for at least two years, said current committee chair and Professor of English and African and African American Studies Werner Sollors.In the past few decades, faculty bodies coordinating ethnic studies have shifted from ad hoc to standing committees. In multiple instances, students have organized to demand more...
...fire for its perceived restriction on freedom of speech, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts contacted school officials to discuss the policy. Long an advocate of the freedom of expression on university campuses, the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts wrote a letter to Clark University in Worcester last spring, urging university officials to reconsider a decision to cancel a talk by controversial political scientist Norman G. Finkelstein...
...accountable” for recent Middle East policy including a much-publicized speech in Cairo, a delayed show of support for protestors after the presidential elections in Iran, and sustained pressure on Israel to halt settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Pollak gained brief media attention last spring when he took Mass. Representative Barney Frank to task during a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School. “It is a true test of our ability as citizens to engage in democracy,” Pollak said. “Many Jewish-Americans voted for Obama...
...according to Lipsitch. He said that he hoped the Center will also actively educate the next generation of “data-savvy modelers” by offering graduate courses and funding research opportunities. The idea of a new research center solely devoted to modeling infectious diseases arose last spring when NIH announced the possibility of new funding, said Lipsitch. According to Irene Eckstrand, a MIDAS Scientific Officer, the Harvard center will be “differentiated not by the questions they seek to answer, but by the methods they use.” HSPH’s researchers will...