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Though most students, faculty, and staff do not yet have access to Harvardâs new Science and Engineering Complex due to Covid-19 restrictions, The Crimson was granted access to tour the eight-story SEC Monday, guided by School of Engineering and Applied Sciences spokesperson Paul Karoff.
Situated across more than five acres with a maximum occupancy of around 2,000 people, the SEC plans for a full opening to students in fall 2021. Construction for the complex started more than five years ago and cost roughly $1 billion to complete. Faculty at SEAS started their move into the new building in Allston in November 2020, but most have yet to unpack their belongings.
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Youâve seen the image by now (if not, scroll up). Members of the Harvard branch of the Ku Klux Klan pose, in full regalia, for a 1924 graduation photo huddled around our campusâs most renowned landmark: the John Harvard Statue. Slacks and dress shoes poke out from their robes. One Harvard Klansman cheekily straddles John Harvard and turns his head to the camera. The group looks defiantly calm â almost as if theyâd already guessed our Universityâs then lax stance towards their ideology.
The pictured students were, per a recent deep dive into the KKKâs Harvardâs ties by Crimson staff writer Simon J. Levien â23-24, only one testament to the white supremacist groupâs pervasive presence on our campus throughout the 20th century.
A pair of Harvard researchers discovered that falling raindrops on other planets remain similar in size and behavior despite widely different atmospheric conditions, according to a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets last month.
Kaitlyn âKaitâ Loftus, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and environmental science professor Robin D. Wordsworth used computer models to study raindrop shape, falling speed, and evaporation speed, ultimately determining that raindrop size is relatively constant across disparate planetary environments.
Loftus â the studyâs lead author â said she began thinking about this research project in fall 2019 as a âstarting pointâ to model how the water cycle works on other planets.
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.