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Yesterday afternoon, the American Physical Society designated Harvard’s Jefferson Laboratory as a Historic Site, citing the special role that it and the Harvard Physics department have played in encouraging physical sciences education...
...liberal-arts education has taken on a queer form indeed at Harvard College. A student may arrive here from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Va.—among the best secondary schools in the nation—ready to study mathematics. He ambitiously prepares a plan of study that allows him to earn an honors degree, a foreign language citation, and a Phi Beta Kappa key, all before his 22nd birthday...
James Watson The chancellor emeritus of Cold Spring Harbor Lab was one of TIME's People of the Century Thomas Jefferson said, "The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man." When reading a column by Frank Rich, we suspect that Jefferson was right. With peerless intellectual clarity and wit, Rich holds our leaders to a higher standard than the one at which they too often settle...
...need an upgraded electrical grid to take full advantage of the vast renewable resources in this country," Vice President Joe Biden said last week in Jefferson City, Mo., outlining a $3.3 billion Department of Energy plan to develop smart-grid technology...
Olena Hankivsky, an associate professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada joined an intimate group of undergraduates and graduate students for a discussion about the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender and class in health research and social policy yesterday. The informal session was organized by Laurie A. Nsiah-Jefferson, a lecturer on Women, Gender and Sexuality, who teaches courses on race and gender. Nsiah-Jefferson said that she invited Hankivsky to Harvard after hearing her talk about her work at a conference a year ago. “I drew a lot of my inspiration [for my class] from...