A few years ago, the Harvard Gazette published an article called “Way to Delay Huntington’s Disease Found.” These words would be music to the ears of families that endure the hardships of Huntington’s...
I recently had a conversation with an advisee about a project called SkillTag. SkillTag was the winner of last year’s Hackathon, a brainstorming event sponsored by the Provost’s Office. Hackathon invited...
Student: What about “Concepts of Biology”? Big State University is offering it online this summer, and I need it for my core requirement.
Dean: I see a few problems. The course seems entirely self-paced....
Very few of my friends are doing what they’d planned for themselves in college. One chemistry major friend is now an architect; one history major runs his own entertainment agency. Meanwhile, I was pre-med,...
In a period when some question the value of the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences, we in the College Dean’s office want to share our perspective. We write from years (and in many cases decades)...
