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...those researchers who had been promised space there. University Provost Steven E. Hyman said in a recent interview that he hopes the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute will have space in Cambridge by the beginning of 2011. But to make room, professors in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology will have to vacate their labs in the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building by the spring of 2010.The renovated space in Fairchild and the adjacent Bauer Laboratory will be made “denser and more efficient” for the stem cell...
...after a history turning down administrative posts, citing a desire to maintain her family life—a concern shared by Coates in taking his name out of consideration—Minow’s potential willingness to accept the position was cast into doubt by one professor...
...says that his calendar reform committee acknowledged that substantial resources would need to be devoted to making J-Term programming a reality. “If formal programming was to be a success, a lot of resources had to be devoted to it,” says former Harvard professor Lisa L. Martin, a co-chair of a committee focused on J-Term during the time of curricular review. “But this never happened.”Though the Conley report suggested that an office and staff should be dedicated to J-Term planning, and administrators and members...
...hallmark of his tenure. As evidenced in his annual letters to the community, his primary motivation to invest in Allston was to ensure the continued strength of the sciences at Harvard, which he said would soon suffer from a crippling insufficiency of space. Alyssa A. Goodman, an astronomy professor who served on the Provost’s Advisory Group on Science at the time, recalls the visionary scope of Summers’ ambitions.“A faculty group is not usually convened to just dream big,” Goodman says. “But everyone was told...
...explicit recognition that the world is complex, formulas are imperfect, and humans are fallible.THE GREAT UNKNOWNWhile debates continue to rage over the length, severity, or causes of the financial crisis, economists have agreed on one of its effects: a renewed caution about the predictive powers of mathematics.Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton says that finance, unlike other subfields of economics, had never claimed to forecast the exact movements of securities prices.Merton was a co-recipient of the Nobel prize in economics in 1997 for his work on the Black-Scholes model, ubiquitously used by traders to price options...