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...Maniatis, an MCB professor renowned for his work in molecular cloning, has made plans to leave Harvard to chair Columbia’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, according to his lab administrator William C. McCallum...
...William Friedkin doesn’t know how he survived the making of “The French Connection,” his 1971 police-procedural classic.As the Oscar-winning director tells it, his appearance some 35 years later at the Harvard Film Archive’s two-week retrospective of his work can only be explained by miracle. “It was the Movie God again,” he said. Only some sort of cinematic deity could’ve saved him, he says, from the perils of one of the movie’s most famous...
...help patients live longer and better,” he said. Harlow, who was been studying melanoma for about three years, is working to find an indirect way to treat this cancer by targeting genes that support harmful mutations, a method originally proposed in 2005 by Medical School Professor William G. Kaelin, Jr. Harlow is focusing on genes supporting MITF—a gene critical to melanoma growth—and hopes to find a way to control the gene in order to stunt tumor growth. In collaboration with David E. Fisher, the chief of dermatology and director...
...tier schools such as Yale or Stanford—which have been characterized as having happier students—Harvard’s class size is roughly three times as large.“It was easy to think you were one of a million,” says William K. Kelley, a fellow student who worked under Kagan on the Law Review.As Dean, Kagan embarked on an ambitious expansion of the faculty to decrease class sizes, bringing the total number to 102 full-time professors before recent departures for the Obama administration. In the process, she has poached more...
...Bill provided returning veterans with money for college, businesses and home mortgages. Suddenly, millions of servicemen were able to afford homes of their own for the first time. As a result, residential construction jumped from 114,000 new homes in 1944 to 1.7 million in 1950. In 1947, William Levitt turned 4,000 acres of Long Island, New York, potato farms into the then largest privately planned housing project in American history. With 30 houses built in assembly-line fashion every day - each with a tree in the front yard - the American subdivision was born...