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...awareness of this little-known issue. “It will give girls and women dealing with problems visibility and hopefully encourage others to get involved and address this problem,” Scharpf said. Scharpf said she became interested in social entrepreneurship after she consulted for the Clinton Foundation??s HIV/AIDS Initiative. “I realized that I could do business and do good at the same time,” she said. “There wasn’t a huge trade-off.” Scharpf then enrolled at the Kennedy School...
...Genie” Smalls, the protagonist of “Huge,” James W. Fuerst’s debut novel, has more than his fair share of adolescent angst with which to deal. “Huge” uses a fairly familiar archetype as its foundation??the bildungsroman—but the storyline quickly diverges from cliché to downright bizarre. The novel, narrated from the young Genie’s perspective, struggles to maintain a balance between reliability and believability, and, in satisfying the former, sometimes compromises the latter. Genie is a precocious preteen...
Tara Duplaga, a representative for Millipore Foundation??a Massachusetts-based organization that supports the Harvard Stem Cell Institute as well as other researchers—said that there were no plans to reduce grants for scientists...
...will support Harlow’s research for two years. Harlow was one of five to be selected from an applicant pool of 60 for this award after a scientific advisory committee looked over all the proposals and chose the most promising ones, according to the Tim Turnham, the foundation??s executive director. “Our goal in funding is to find new treatments that will help patients live longer and better,” he said. Harlow, who was been studying melanoma for about three years, is working to find an indirect way to treat this...
...over $200,000 for her teaching and research into how fungi can clean up mining sites, SEAS announced Monday. Colleen M. Hansel, a specialist in environmental microbiology, will receive $212,000 over the next two years and up to $537,000 over the next five years through the foundation??s Faculty Early Career Development award, she said in an interview yesterday. The award is given annually by the foundation to faculty in the sciences who haven’t yet achieved tenure but show promise in both their teaching and research. Hansel said the award was particularly welcome...