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...stressed his commitment to the advancement of stem cell research.“I believe that life sciences should be guided by science and not ideological politics,” Patrick said in a statement. Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics Leonard I. Zon, a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute??s executive board, said on Wednesday that Patrick’s push for a policy reversal indicates an important “change in climate” in the state’s view toward stem cell research. But he said the change will not lead...
...addition to teaching both undergraduate and graduate-level courses, he will become a member of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute??s (HURI) executive committee...
...Steven J. Kelman, the Weatherhead professor of public management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. “Almost any function of government potentially can be made more effective and or less expensive using technology,” Kelman said. The program is similar to the Ash Institute??s Innovations in American Government Awards Program, now endowed by the Ford Foundation, because it aims to highlight governmental innovations so that they can be adopted by others. But with its international focus and corporate sponsorship, the IBM-sponsored award remains distinct. Unlike the endowed American government award...
...venture between Harvard and MIT. “There’s no understanding of the causes of these diseases, and that needs to come from collaboration between clinical people and those in neuroscience and genetics,” said Edward Scolnick ’61, who directs the institute??s Psychiatry Initiative and will head the new center. “We can take that on now in a way that would have been impossible without the Stanley grant.” The money will be donated over a 10-year period to fund research into...
...academic prowess, Faust’s leadership of the Radcliffe Institute is a testament to her administrative and managerial abilities. The Institute advances graduate-level research in fields ranging from the humanities to the sciences, and for this reason is mimetic of the University at large. The Institute??s specialization in women’s scholarship, with its unparalleled resources on American women’s history at Schlesinger Library, is a remarkable quality that should garner respect, not derision. Once these attributes are discussed in a non-biased light, they provide a host of other possible?...