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In an unlikely alliance between pulp fiction and organic chemistry, Patricia Cornwell, author of the best-selling “Scarpetta” thrillers, will establish a conservation scientist position at Harvard to further close examinations of art materials.
For her research on Jack the Ripper, Cornwell used Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, where the new position will be established. She traveled with a team of scientists, including Harvard conservator Anne Driesse, in the fall of 2005 to study papers and inks in...
Cornwell recently donated more than 50 works of art by Sickert to the Harvard Art Museum. “She would say that these are Jack the Ripper paintings,” said Henry Lie, director of conservation at the Harvard Art Museum.
The search for a scientist to fill the position, known as the Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, will begin as soon as the endowment is complete, Lie said. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will match Cornwell’s gift.
•Tax credits for companies that produce wind and solar energy and energy conservation products like fiberglass insulation. According to Hendricks, there are companies ready to build wind farms in the Midwest and solar farms in the Southwest if they can be guaranteed that there will be a market for...