Government professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. â53 is widely known on campus as the default example of a conservative faculty member at Harvard.
According to Mansfield, this is not because his views possess any sort of âsuperiorityâ to othersâ perspectives, but simply because a professor with his political stance is ârareâ on Harvardâs campus.
âEvery class you enter, you have to work out your position vis-Ã -vis what the professor is saying,â Mansfield said. âBecause a professor is going to be a liberal, and heâs not going to be bashful about it.â
âThere are many more conservatives among the students than there are among either the faculty or the administration,â he said, adding that those students tend to seek him out as one of the few vocal conservative voices in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Harvard researchers announced Wednesday they will postpone a test flight for a controversial environmental engineering project â the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment â after pushback from an Indigenous peoplesâ group in Sweden.
Through the project, known as âSCoPEx,â School of Engineering and Applied Sciences engineering professor Frank N. Keutschâs research group plans to release a small amount of particles into the stratosphere to test whether those particles could reflect sunlight back to space.
According to the Keutsch research groupâs website, the projectâs goal is to better understand solar geoengineering, a controversial strategy that could be used to curb global warming. The project is supported in part by philanthropist Bill Gates through SEASâs Solar Geoengineering Research Program.
In normal times, Environmental Engineering senior Elieen R. Egolf ’21 would have conducted most of her thesis research at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ Active Learning Labs.
But with labs mostly closed due to the pandemic, she took an unusual approach to her research in an unusual location: she built a robot composter in the basement of her home in Colorado.
Sourcing food waste from a local composting facility, Egolf amassed about 89 gallons of material to test her invention and woke up at 6:00 a.m. every other day for six weeks to conduct testing.
On Friday, she and other SEAS seniors celebrated the completion of their undergraduate theses and senior capstone projects, the culmination of a year of research conducted in spite of the logistical hurdles of an unconventional, largely-remote semester at SEAS.
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Like many rising seniors at Harvard each year, Jenna D. Lang â21 spent the summer before her final year searching for post-graduate job opportunities. This yearâs senior class, however, is graduating into a job market that looks radically different from what it did a year ago.
When Lang reached out to one small media company she hoped to work for, she learned that the coronavirus pandemic had left it struggling to hold on its existing employees, let alone hire new graduates.
âIâve run into that problem a couple of times with smaller organizations â that theyâre just not hiring this year, which is unfortunate because this is the year Iâm graduating,â Lang said.