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...post-speech interview, he tried to broaden his audience’s horizons. “What I try to do is focus on some issues that will stretch people in their thinking,” he said. “Particularly for someone graduating, it is important to understand the responsibilities and accountabilities that they have to the society.”Central to his argument was a call for strong ethics. “To me, integrity is the single most important quality you need as a leader,” he said onstage. “Integrity...
...Although Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Debra T. Auguste was not directly involved with the creation of the new Life Sciences curriculum at Harvard, she is in many ways a living example of breakthroughs that can be gained from multidisciplinary research. Auguste’s research focuses on better understanding the biology of stem cells and interfacing this knowledge with tissue engineering to improve drug delivery and to better understand diseases...
...another concentrator, who took Mendelsohn’s junior seminar on the atomic bomb, stressed that while Mendelsohn could teach the “nuts and bolts” of scientific progress, he could also make his students “really understand what it was like to be a scientist” in whatever period he dealt with...
...sciences have a real responsibility to make sure that the enlightened citizenry can understand what science is about,” he said, emphasizing that Harvard’s science faculty should take care to speak to non-science people to “increas[e] their confidence that they can and should gain an understanding of what’s happening in the sciences...
...respect” and “sensitivity” are the subsidiary platitudes of this vacant multiculturalism. A real sensitivity for other cultures, however, would entail discerning differences, perhaps even more than finding common ground. People who truly respect Islam, for instance, should be able to understand and fear the signs sent by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s millennial behavior: What is not considerate of Islam is to assume that those of its adherents whose theology brooks no separation of civil and religious authority will be motivated by the same incentives that we in the West are. This type...