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...University just announced that Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will be this year's Commencement speaker. Not a huge surprise, considering Harvard's new green initiative and Al Gore's recent speech in Tercentenary Theatre. Green is the new Crimson, baby. But although Harvard is digging that Chu is a passionate advocate for renewable energy, his passion for academics went somewhat...unappreciated by the Ivy Leagues in an earlier go-round. In his autobiography on the Nobel Prize web site, he writes of how he was rejected...
...Physicist Cherry A. Murray has been selected as the Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.Murray, who is currently the principal associate director for science and technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will also be appointed the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences.The selection was announced to SEAS faculty in an e-mail sent yesterday afternoon, according to Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, a professor of physics at SEAS who served as dean for a decade. He was succeeded in the interim by Applied...
...League has been the early stomping ground for bankers, politicians, and a range of other six-figure professionals. Though it counts amongst its alumni famous names in the humanities and arts, on any campus of the Great Eight you are more likely to find an amateur particle physicist than an actor or actress. Sure, Natalie Portman ’03 shot a few “Star Wars” movies while at Harvard, but she studied Psychology, and the movies trashed George Lucas’ career.The few examples of Ivy cinematic glory notwithstanding, the overall dearth of our representation...
...nuclear physicist who studied at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi, Cover worked as a contract scientist on NASA's Apollo moon program. It was during this period in the 1960s--an era of civil unrest, airplane hijackings and urban violence--that he began to ponder the need for a nonlethal weapon...
...been offered the position of U.S. ambassador to Japan, lauded the likely nomination as a “terrific choice.” Nye, who worked with Carter at the Pentagon during the Clinton administration, noted his unique background as an asset to the position—a physicist by training, Carter received a doctorate from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. “We don’t often have a physicist who understands policy,” Nye said. “He’s a great scientist and policy maker...