20 April 2021
by: Andrea Korte Jane Lubchenco and Alondra Nelson are former members of the AAAS Board of Directors. | Left: The Aspen Institute, right: Robb Cohen Photography & Video Jane Lubchenco and Alondra Nelson are former members of the AAAS Board of Directors. | Left: The Aspen Institute, right: Robb Cohen Photography & Video
Two past members of the AAAS Board of Directors are bringing their science policy expertise to the federal government as leaders in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
Marine scientist Jane Lubchenco is the deputy director for climate and the environment, and sociologist Alondra Nelson is the deputy director for science and society.
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BACOW: All of us hope that by fall we will have returned to some semblance of normality but we’re also planning for contingencies. If this virus has taught us anything, it is that we need to be flexible, and adaptable.
GAZETTE: Along those same lines, the pandemic has fundamentally changed the nature of work for so many. Do you have a sense of what work will look like at Harvard going forward?
BACOW: I think we’ve learned that people can work far more effectively from remote locations than we ever might have imagined. I have not set foot in Mass Hall since March 13, except for five minutes to reclaim a notebook that I left there shortly after I departed. If you had told me that I could do my job from my study here at Elmwood for a year without seeing the deans and VPs, the faculty, students, staff, alumni, donors, or the governing boards in person, I would have said, “No way.” But now we’ve all learne
A year ago today, President Larry Bacow informed the Harvard community that the University would be transitioning to remote instruction as COVID-19 intensified its grip on the world, with hospitalizations and deaths in the United States beginning to rise at alarming rates.
“Like all of you, I have been intently following reports of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and considering the many ways in which its future course might alter my life and the lives of those closest to me,” he wrote. “These past few weeks have been a powerful reminder of just how connected we are to one another and how our choices today determine our options tomorrow.”
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Kelly Metcalf Pate, an assistant professor of veterinary medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will become the new director of MIT’s Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM) on March 1. Metcalf Pate will replace James Fox, who has been the director of DCM for more than four decades.
At Johns Hopkins, Metcalf Pate served as the associate director of academic training for the research training programs for veterinarians in the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathology. She also launched and directed the Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Scholars Program, a summer research program for veterinary students. In her research lab, she studies how platelet cells interact with other immune cells during viral infections such as HIV and cytomegalovirus.