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...five percent. 4/13: Administrative organization of the Harvard College library undergoes a complete overhauling. A Lowell House student tried to find out how a fridge worked, ruptured the machine’s gas pipe and had to be rescued by the fire department. 4/23: Harvard, MIT get largest electron accelerator in the world. Costing $6.5 million, the project will be completed by 1960. 5/7: Robert B. Woodward, Loeb professor of chemistry, synthesized reserpine, an important drug in the treatment of mental disorders. One day later, the student council proposes a new student activity center.6/1: Dean of Freshmen bans the freshman...
...board of directors of the Harvard Management Company, the University’s endowment management arm. Berman joins several other Harvard professors and administrators who serve on corporate boards. Lawrence University Professor Michael E. Porter, for example, holds numerous corporate board positions, such as Parametric Technology Corporation, Thermo Electron Corporation, and Inforte Corporation. Berman is scheduled to depart from her post in April after over a decade of service for the University in order to pursue an interest in foreign languages in Italy. She will then return to Cambridge in an as-of-yet unspecified advisory role for the University...
...Randall was dealing with another problem before she considered the hierarchy problem: examining supersymmetry, a theory that claims every fundamental particle has a partner (like an electron with a negative charge and a positron with an equivalent positive charge...
...Randall hopes that the Large Hadron Collider, a giant particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland will test her theories. Colliding proton beams at a combined energy of 14 trillion electron volts, it will start operation in 2007. The collider could produce particles such as the sought-after graviton believed to convey the gravitational force, or it could produce actual strings...
...heart. Calcium can then build up in the vessels and stiffen them, laying the foundation for heart disease. Getting one's calcium score is as simple as getting a quick injection of a contrast agent in the arm and a zap from an ultrafast X ray, either by electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) or by multidetector CT. Studies show that in every age group people with higher calcium levels have a greater risk of heart attack than do people of the same age with lower scores...