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June 5, 2003

Katharine E. and Albert W. Merck '43
Support for teaching excellence
Katharine E. and Albert W. Merck '43, enthusiastic advocates for excellence in public and private education, have given $15 million to Harvard to strengthen teacher training and instructional technology. With gifts to the Graduate School of Education and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Mercks will enable the University to share its pedagogical research with teachers of students of all ages around the world, and help improve the quality of undergraduate instruction in Harvard College. (Staff photo by Justin Ide) Full story

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Dueling biochemist taking fight to malaria
Graduating senior Amy Bei heading to Tanzania on Fulbright Scholarship

Teaching excellence
Mercks give $15 million to bolster educational technology and instruction

Heading north to heal
SPH graduates take skills to work in the Arctic Circle

Three seniors honored for academic excellence
Radcliffe's Fay Prize honors theses on motors, mangroves, and Morton Prince

They mixed helping people into her M.D. studies
Graduate and her husband taught rural Costa Ricans how to battle diabetes

 

 

 

 

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