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...reaction to her nomination by President Barack Obama as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, friends and teachers of Margaret A. Hamburg ’77 described the former New York City health commissioner as a lively student with varied interests during her time on campus...
After her undergraduate years, Hamburg studied at Harvard Medical School. She then went on to conduct neuroscience research at The Rockefeller University in New York before becoming one of the youngest people ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine. Her FDA nomination, announced last week, awaits confirmation by the Senate...
...article in The New York Times earlier this week noted that common complaints have included a focus on approaches that are overly scientific, and that business schools do not produce entrepreneurs or leaders, only individuals intent on making financial gains...
Harvard Law School professor Ryan Goodman will depart for New York University this fall, NYU officials announced yesterday. Goodman, who specializes in international law, has taught at Harvard since 2002, and received tenure in 2006. He currently serves as the director of the Law School’s Human Rights Program, and co-taught a workshop on international law with Law School professor William P. Alford last semester. “He’s been a wonderful colleague in addition to being a very distinguished scholar and a very accomplished teacher, and I’m sorry...
It’s a shame that the Asian-American response was not more substantial, for anti-Asian racism is a real problem that deserves serious discussion. Subtle racism is particularly pervasive in the American media; the reporting on Chinese affairs in the New York Times, for instance, is not so different in spirit from the comments left on the Lowell walls. Take for example, a recent New York Times article on the “50th Anniversary of Democratic Reforms in Tibet,” which has a headline reading, “Tibet Atrocities Dot Official Chinese History...