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THE HARVARD CRIMSON | February 6, 2020
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Betley and Kahne to Head Chemistry Dept. 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 considering potential successors,” Stubbs wrote. “Both Professors Kahne and Betley are held in very high regard by their colleagues, and both were strongly recommended for the Chair role.” Stubbs said that the many responsibilities 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 Harvard, which focuses on synthetic inorganic chemistry. Betley was named a top innovator 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 department 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 National Academy of Sciences last May and won the Gordon Hammes
Lectureship Award in July. Multiple professors said they
I think the appointment of Dan and Ted is fantastic. 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. ethan.lee@thecrimson.com
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Mather House Launches App
Grad. Council Talks Career HUHS Development at First Meeting Advises About Virus
to try to help students match faces with names and learn a
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.’ Thomas J. Wagg Mather House Resident
few things about their neighbors, with the goal of making it easier to strike up a conversation 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.” aydnie.cobb@thecrimson.com
students’ career pursuits, including through the Office of Career Services. “There’s an increasing number of ways for students to take an active role in addressing issues 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 Languages and Literatures Ph.D. candidate Hans M. Pech, who serves as a liaison between the GSC and Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers, updated the council on recent developments in the negotiations between University administrators and the
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union. In January 2020, federal 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: healthcare, compensation, and procedures to adjudicate sexu-
al harassment and discrimination complaints. Later, Hayworth stressed the distinction between the GSC and HGSU-UAW’s roles in graduate student life and responsibilities to GSAS students, highlighting 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. benjamin.fu@thecrimson.com dohyun.kim@thecrimson.com
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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 abundance of caution,” the email reads. fiona.brennan@thecrimson.com
