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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Eighteen Harvard affiliates â including Cornel R. West â74, Steven A. Pinker, and Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. â signed on as founding members of a new nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to defending academicsâ freedom of expression.
The Academic Freedom Alliance, which officially launched Monday, arose out of conversations among professors at Princeton University about free speech on college campuses. By invitation, 17 current Harvard faculty and one incoming Harvard Law School professor joined the initiative.
Keith E. Whittington â a professor of politics at Princeton who formerly taught at HLS and serves as the chair of Allianceâs Academic Committee â said the associationâs founding was motivated by a âsteady drumbeat of faculty who found themselves under threat because of something they had said or done or taught.â
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.