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...California, Berkeley. He won a Nobel prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms with laser lights. He was confirmed for his cabinet post by the U.S. Senate in January. Chu had previously served as a head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley The Harvard Alumni Association chooses the speaker. —Check TheCrimson.com for updates throughout...
...soon noticed by college coaches. “I’d always wanted to play sports in college; I just realized that my chances were a lot better in volleyball than basketball,” Jones says.Like many kids on the West Coast, Jones set his sights on Stanford. But after being deferred in the early admissions process, he began to look at the Ivy League.“One day, I got a call from Harvard,” Jones says. “It was kind of funny because I didn’t know my parents...
...questions from all areas of physics, chemistry, biology, and statistics. The second round was geared more towards a discussion of what the applicant intended to do with his fellowship. Kovachy said that he was up to the challenge, having spent his last three summers doing research in physics at Stanford, and experimenting with physical principles on his own. The Winthrop house resident is especially interested in utilizing “atomic interferometers” to measure gravitational forces at the quantum level. “Essentially, I measure how two atoms fall simultaneously, much like Galileo measured how two balls...
...Zhou Fan ’09, Rosen D. Kralev ’09, Yi Sun ’09, Dmitry Vaintrob ’11, Ameya A. Velingker ’09 and Neal Wadhwa ’09 all received honorable mentions. Behind Harvard, teams from Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech rounded out the top five teams this year. —Staff writer Michael J. Ding can be reached at ding2@fas.harvard.edu
...findings come from an imaginative experiment conducted by a group of business professors from Stanford, Brigham Young and Northwestern universities. The investigators first recruited 200 student volunteers from various fraternity and sorority houses and divided them into 50 same-sex, four-person teams. The teams were brought in two at a time and given 20 minutes to solve an imaginary murder mystery, relying on made-up evidence and detective interviews. One of the suspects in the mystery was indeed guilty, which meant that the test did have a right answer...