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Harvard secretly photographed [2000] students to study… attendance [in 10 classes], raising #privacy concerns
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/05/harvard-secretly-photographed-students-study-class-attendance-raising-privacy-concerns/hC8TBdGdZmQehg0lAhnnJN/story.html
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Harvard University has revealed that it secretly photographed some 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls last spring as part of a study of classroom attendance, an admission that prompted criticism from faculty and students who said the research was an invasion of privacy. The clandestine experiment, disclosed publicly for the first time at a faculty meeting Tuesday night, came to light about a year-and-a-half after revelations that administrators had secretly searched thousands of Harvard e-mail accounts. That led the university to implement new privacy policies on electronic communication this spring, but another round of controversy followed the latest disclosure.
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Dear Alumni,
I am delighted to announce the release of the first-ever Harvard University Department of Physics newsletter.
Whether you are near or far, we hope that this publication virtually brings you back to campus….
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https://www.physics.harvard.edu/uploads/files/Newsletter_Fall_2014.pdf

Lethal #Chemistry at Harvard. Disaster before the last bond in synthesis. An #oldie but still relevant to #phd life.
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/magazine/lethal-chemistry-at-harvard.html

Many letters – eg
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/20/magazine/l-lethal-chemistry-at-harvard-430935.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/20/magazine/l-lethal-chemistry-at-harvard-430927.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/20/magazine/l-lethal-chemistry-at-harvard-430943.html …