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Medical care can be a gamble--and patients often don't understand the odds. University of California researchers aim to change that, with an interactive Web-based tool that they are calling the roulette wheel. This color-coded visual model uses a computer algorithm to help patients and their doctors assess the possible outcomes of different treatments. Take the prostate-specific-antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer, for example. The wheel for PSA screening shows a typical patient the potential harm (incontinence, impotence, death) or benefit (no symptoms) that could result from treatment following a PSA test in which high...
...Harvard’s Cultural Agents Initiative. Sommer’s program collaborates with the Boston Public Schools to integrate art forms into education.At Harvard, Bakshi began to see arts as a medium for change rather than just a subject of analysis. A joint concentrator in social studies and visual and environmental studies, he has produced documentaries on topics ranging from drug abuse in Cambridge to the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. Now, Bakshi is headed home to Washington, D.C., where he is working for The Washington Post as well as for the D.C. School Board. But oceans...
...Harvard courses as well as redesigned the website for Leverett, her house. She also created the cover of the Committee on Undergraduate Education’s 2004-2005 course evaluation guide. After mastering the art of web design herself, she turned toward animation sophomore year—taking Visual and Environmental Studies classes on the subject. She also threw herself into Leverett life and became publicity chair of the House Committee. “Pretty much anything you can do around Leverett House I’ve done. I live in the dining hall, I help pick tutors...
...take advantage of Harvard’s opportunities. Worth, an English and American literature and language concentrator, says that her favorite and most challenging classes included English 200, “Old English,” a course on the history and literature of Ireland, Applied Math 110, and Visual and Environmental Studies 40, a studio class in design. A LIFE-LONG DEVOTIONUpon her graduation from the College, Worth went to work for the Harvard Admissions Office and became a freshman proctor.“I knew I wouldn’t have been admitted to Harvard...
...sales to go up.3/27: George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, backs Health Secretary Marion Folsom’s stand opposing increased federal aid for medical research at this time. The Faculty rejects the freshman petition for extended parietal hours on Saturday nights. 4/9: Committee on the Visual Arts recommends a $6.5m expansion in program to include a Harvard theatre and a new design center. Two days later, the Corporation votes to increase all salaries for members of the Faculty and administration by five percent. 4/13: Administrative organization of the Harvard College library undergoes a complete overhauling...