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...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announced last Friday that it had received a $16.5 million donation to fund cancer research, marking the largest gift from an individual in the Harvard-affiliated institute??s 58-year history. The institute??s chief scientific officer, Barrett J. Rollins, said the donation will be used to research proteins and their functions at a soon-to-be-created center named for the donors, Jack Blais, an optical coating entrepreneur who has been a trustee of Dana-Farber since 2002, and his wife, Shelley. In addition to Friday’s donation...
...recent grand opening of the Du Bois Institute??s new location marked a milestone in the development of Harvard’s incipient African and African American Studies (AAAS) program. For many, the new office space also reflects new optimism for the program’s future, which has been in question for the past couple of years. Yet while AAAS’s prospects are bright indeed, the conventional wisdom about the vicissitudes of the program’s fortunes and how to make it flourish has been all wrong...
...study the human genome.Both schools together will raise $20 million per year in gifts and non-federal grants. If fundraising efforts fail to meet the goal, Harvard will compensate MIT for the shortfall, the report states. Harvard’s will also pay $13 million initially to construct the institute??s new building.—Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached at ciarelli@fas.harvard.edu...
...Broad said he and his wife decided to give the second gift because they were “impressed with the [institute??s] progress and wanted to see it accelerated...
Summers also joked that members of the Institute??s executive committee agreed more often with Edythe Broad’s “standards” for the Institute than with Eli?...