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...While pursuing his graduate studies, Chen became a six-time winner of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning’s award for teaching distinction. The prize is given to teaching fellows who receive more than a 4.5 on the CUE Guide’s five-point scale...
...years of hard labor and work on a unique Z-shaped, architectural project? How about a check for $50,000 from Harvard’s Urban Planning and Design Department? On Dec. 5, architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi were awarded this year’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize winner for their Seattle-based project, the Olympic Sculpture Park. As Manfredi says, the project is “something radical.” The Graduate School of Design (GSD) is currently exhibiting material related to the project in the lobby of Gund Hall. And something radical...
Last week, Church announced his entrance into the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics competition, which will award $10 million to the first team that maps 100 people’s genomes for under $10,000 per person in 10 days or less. And monetary gain is not the only inspiration for the project—the technique may allow for more personalized medical treatments...
...successful graduate of this system. He earned $4,000 in prize money from hacker competitions, enough to make him worthy of a glowing profile in Sichuan University's campus newspaper. Tan told the paper that he was at his happiest "when he succeeds in gaining control of a server" and described a highly organized selection and training process that aspiring cybermilitiamen (no cyberwomen, apparently) undertake. The story details the links between the hackers and the military. "On July 25, 2005," it said, "Sichuan Military Command Communication Department located [Tan] through personal information published online and instructed him to participate...
...both in symbol and in practice, of this plan should be under estimated. Given the current public atmosphere toward climate change, both domestically and globally, it is imperative that Harvard throw its institutional weight behind such emission policies. Al Gore ’69 just won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change, and currently, the United States is engaged in a global climate summit in Bali, which is looking past Kyoto to the next generation of climate regulations. There is no better time for Harvard to show publicly its support for these measures. Besides demonstrating support...