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Former Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and the deans of the School of Public Health and the Medical School appointed the 24 members of UPCSE, which was co-chaired by Stubbs, Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics Andrew Murray, and Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Christopher...
Explaining the report’s emphasis on undergraduate and graduate education, Stubbs said that current laboratory sessions in Harvard science courses “are, in many cases, fairly cookbook procedures where people go through a well-specified set of steps.”
Stubbs added that a “learning by doing” approach to laboratory instruction would improve the Harvard science experience.
Stubbs held up the Astronomy department’s sophomore tutorial as an example of hands-on learning, where students learn the process behind acquiring and analyzing astronomical data sets in the tutorial, whereas before the tutorial program only included chalkboard lectures from astronomy professors about their own research.
“We go through everyday tools and techniques that astronomers use,” Stubbs said. “That’s meant to try to set [students] up so that they can become involved in the research that’s taking place in the department...