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By Nathalie R. Miraval
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
At the start of the first lecture for Life Sciences 1b, lecturer Andrew Berry said to his students, “Welcome to Harvard’s most unpopular class.” A round of applause followed.
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By Rebecca D. Robbins
Friday, December 2, 2011
Adeyemi was one of about five students who were exposed to ultraviolet light in LPSA lab on Tuesday while not using the proper eye protection. As a result, they suffered from what Adeyemi was told may have been “thermal retinal burn from UV radiation,” a condition that includes symptoms of eye redness, pain, and blurry vision.
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NEWS
By Daniel J. Kramer
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Pharmaceutical companies should turn to stem cells for a more effective and cost-efficient way to experiment with new medications, Harvard professor Lee L. Rubin said in a presentation yesterday.
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NEWS
By Armaghan N. Behlum
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Norman F. Ramsey, a Nobel Prize winner in physics and a former Harvard professor, died last Friday at age 96.
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NEWS
By Radhika Jain
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The vast majority—93 percent—of external funding spent by the physics department in fiscal year 2011 came from federal sources, including a number of grants from the Department of Defense.
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NEWS
By Radhika Jain
Friday, October 7, 2011
As the world reflects on Jobs’ legacy, one Harvard professor says that remembering the iconic genius primarily as an innovator would be a mistake.
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NEWS
By Radhika Jain
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
This is the first time the newly-renovated Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building has been entirely devoted to stem cell laboratories since the consolidation was proposed in early 2009.
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NEWS
By Caroline M. McKay
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The alumni discovered that the universe is not only expanding, but constantly accelerating—a discovery that shook the cosmology world by overturning the common belief that the universe was slowing down.
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NEWS
By Julie R. Barzilay
Friday, September 30, 2011
Harvard Science Club for Girls joins a growing contingent of campus organizations that support women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
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NEWS
By Michelle Denise L. Ferreol
Friday, September 30, 2011
The prize, which consists of a $10,000 personal award and $40,000 of research support, was endowed this past summer by a donation from Harvard alumnus Gardner Hendrie ’54.
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