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Mather House Launches App Mather From page 1
to try to help students match faces with names and learn a
Thomas J. Wagg Mather House Resident few things about their neighbors, with the goal of making it easier to strike up a conver sation and feel at home in this space.”
Wagg said that students should join the app as an avenue of meeting interesting people that populate campus.
“As a senior, I look around my dining hall and think, ‘I have no absolute idea who most of these people are, but these are some of the most interesting people in the world,’” Wagg said. “The Meet Mather app is the perfect way to find and connect with these people.”
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Betley and Kahne to Head Chemistry Dept. Chemistry From page 1
In a statement provided by Harvard spokesperson Anna Cowenhoven, Dean of Science Christopher W. Stubbs wrote the search for a new chair for the department had been ongoing prior to Lieber’s administrative leave.
“This was Prof. Lieber’s final year as CCB chair, and our office was in the process of consider ing potential successors,” Stubbs wrote.
“Both Professors Kahne and Betley are held in very high re gard by their colleagues, and both were strongly recommend ed for the Chair role.”
Stubbs said that the many re sponsibilities of the new department chair motivated the appointment of two co-chairs, instead of one.
Stubbs cited the “urgency” of providing support to current students, including postdoctoral positions, continuing the work of Lieber’s research group, and ongoing demands of a “large and complex department” as reasons for the double appointment.
Betley, who has taught at Harvard since 2007, leads the Betley Research Group at Har vard, which focuses on synthetic inorganic chemistry.
Betley was named a top inno vator under 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2008 and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2013.
Kahne, a professor in the de partment since 2004, studies antibiotic resistance and co-teaches the popular introductory biology course, Life Sciences 1A: “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences.”
He was elected to the Nation al Academy of Sciences last May and won the Gordon Hammes Lectureship Award in July.
Multiple professors said they
Brian Liau Professor of Chemistry
are pleased with the selection of Kahne and Betley as co-chairs of the department.
“I think the appointment of Dan and Ted is fantastic — they both are highly committed to the department,” said Brian Liau, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology.
Betley and Kahne could not be reached for comment.
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Career From page 1
Grad. Council Talks Career Development at First Meeting
students’ career pursuits, including through the Office of Career Services.
“There’s an increasing num ber of ways for students to take an active role in addressing is sues of mental health,” Hayworth said. “The GSC’s bigger mission is to put power into the hands of graduate students, to create the GSAS that they want to see.” Germanic Languag es and Literatures Ph.D. candidate Hans M. Pech, who serves as a liaison between the GSC and Harvard Graduate Stu dents Union-United Automobile Workers, updated the council on recent developments in the negotiations between Uni versity administrators and the union. In January 2020, fed eral mediators began working to conciliate the two parties, which for 17 months have been bargaining over HGSU-UAW’s first contract.
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Though the union’s threeweek-long strike ended on Jan. 1, the two sides remain at odds over three key issues: health care, compensation, and procedures to adjudicate sexual harassment and discrimination complaints. Later, Hayworth stressed the distinc tion between the GSC and HGSU-UAW’s roles in graduate student life and responsibilities to GSAS students, highlight ing the limited overlap in each groups’ membership as well as slight differences in goals. “But I think also it’s important for the GSC to keep waving the banner of the union,” Hayworth said.
“We’re not a platform for the union, definitely not. But we provide one venue for the union to disseminate its mission and goals,” he added.
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HUHS Advises About Virus
breath — develop.
The email states that HUHS will continue to monitor the outbreak and that advice is based on all currently available information, even for those unlikely to contract or spread coronavirus.
“While you may be at low risk of carrying the infection, we advise this out of an abun dance of caution,” the email reads.
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