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...still ongoing. It has raised about $275 million toward a goal of $400 million, and is scheduled to end in June 2008. Nichols said that his principal accomplishments during his time at HLS were the renovation of Langdell Hall, the school’s primary library, and the creation of 37 endowed professorships. There are currently 83 endowed professorships at HLS. In addition to overseeing fundraising, Nichols’ other principal responsibility was being a liaison to the school’s alumni. “[Nichols] made soliciting a contribution, normally a distasteful job, a pleasant task...
...Broad Foundation, created by philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad who are supporters of advancing medical knowledge and research, has donated $25 million to fund the creation of a new stem cell research center at the University of Southern California (USC). “There are two areas that are the most promising: human genomics, and stem cell research,” said Eli Broad, who donated a total of $200 million for the foundation of a genome research center at Harvard and MIT, at a press conference announcing the USC Broad Institute last week. The Institute, which will...
...pissed and want to keep the network to themselves,” Hughes told The Crimson in September, when Facebook opened its high school wing. Now with the fusion of the two networks, some Harvard students said they are overtly outraged. This rage has been channeled into the creation of a slew of facebook groups including “You’re still in high school. and you’re friending me? That’s awkward...now go away” and “Advocates for the return of Facebook to college-only exclusivity...
...professors outside the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) call for the creation of a University-wide legislative body, few at Harvard are aware of the fact that such a body already exists—at least on the books.An obscure provision in the Statutes of Harvard University, posted on a University website, establishes a University Council, composed of “the President, Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors of the University and such other University officials as the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers may appoint members of the Council.”According to the Statutes...
...Americans losing ground to countries like China, South Korea and India in science and technology [Feb. 13]? Duh! We have a scientifically illiterate President, megachurches that insist that creation is 6,000 years old and an anti-intellectual climate that casts anyone of intelligence as a suspected terrorist. Falling behind in science? We are falling behind in intelligence...