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Knowles is right to make the sciences a top research priority because science will in large part define the great 21st Century research institution. Science research plays an important role in Harvard’s societal mission, and as science becomes increasingly complex and specialized, it will take a larger science faculty to stay at the top. These facts have been recognized not only by FAS but by the entire University, which is why science lies at the heart of the planned Allston expansion and at the top of the Corporation’s agenda...
...order to remedy the challenges of insufficient capital, Sebastian turned to the Harvard Campus Grant system to supplement the more conventional avenue of advertisements. The common grant application allows student groups to apply for direct grants from various departments of the University, each affiliated with a particular mission, as well as from the Undergraduate Council. But after weathering the complicated and stressful application process, Sebastian met another financial pitfall when grant after grant was returned with the seal of rejection...
...even for those groups not subject to the vagaries of familial favor, the long-term unreliability of funding sources remains an inescapable problem that must be dealt with continuously. In the spring of 2006, the Mission Hill After School Program was shaken to its foundations by a political transition in the Undergraduate Council. Year after year, Mission Hill had received the same amount of money from the UC. Suddenly, the new Financial Committee decreed that Mission Hill would receive zero dollars of funding that semester...
...caught everyone off guard,” says Ajay G. Kumar ’08, administrative director of Mission Hill. “When people were depending on one source of income and that source fell through, they needed to rethink how they were being funded...
...Quad, administrators are calling on undergraduates to redesign the face of the space. In a competition that the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH) is co-sponsoring with Harvard Media Ventures, students are being challenged to create a new logo that embodies the center’s stating mission of supporting student group initiatives. The winning designer will receive an iPod as well as a paid job designing SOCH’s new Web site, according to SOCH Manager David R. Friedrich. The selected design will then be used on T-shirts, Nalgene bottles, and other SOCH paraphernalia. Media Ventures...