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Whether used as a daytime study spot or as an after-hours hangout, the lounge has already played a role in normalizing the stressful academic lives of these aspiring scientists??to whatever extent that is possible. “People have used the space for birthday parties and for thesis defense parties,” Dransfield says...
...biological anthropology concentrator, was fortunate to get into Hauser’s lab research class, Psychology 1152, which is limited to 12 spaces usually reserved for psychology concentrators. She spends her time in the lab testing how well Pinker, Newport, Hrdy and Wrangham—four tamarins named after scientists??can work with tools. She conducts means-means-end experiments to determine whether the tamarins can realize that by using one tool, they can move another tool which will bring them a sugar-coated marshmallow...
Spaepen describes the fellowship program as a “great opportunity for young scientists?? to begin their careers working together in a small and “creative” environment...
...can’t Harvard professors venture into topics not directly related to their area of expertise? The problem is not isolated to scientists??there are English professors who refuse, or are unable, to delve into questions of morality, philosophy professors unwilling to discuss literature and any number of other examples. Specialization is the current mantra, and as professors define smaller and smaller areas of expertise, our courses get narrower and narrower in scope...
...Scientists?? understanding of cells, chromosomes and genes is already catalyzing an explosion in biology, Summers says, and the president wants Harvard and Boston to capitalize mightily on the opportunity this explosion presents...