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...last thing on some professors’ minds. But Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds issued a plea for more professors to develop new Gen Ed courses—especially in the sciences and social sciences, where she said there are “very few courses: almost nothing...
...Harvard’s endowment, valued at almost $37 billion last June, lost roughly 22 percent of its value by the end of October, and amid subsequent belt-tightening measures—including a November hiring freeze on FAS staff—some staff have expressed concerns about the potential for layoffs...
...billion economic stimulus package approved yesterday by the U.S. Senate includes $10 billion in funding for biomedical research—almost triple the amount allocated by the U.S. House of Representatives two weeks ago. The research grants, to be awarded by the National Institutes of Health, will be welcomed by Harvard’s vast arrays of researchers and medical affiliates. For years, they have criticized the federal government for inadequately funding scientific research. According to Harvard statements on the issue, the NIH is currently able to fund less than two out of every ten grant applications, and thousands...
...that Yoon “wasn’t really on the radar” at the time. “It’s a very gutsy move, since [Yoon] is young and a new council member,” she said. “Menino has really almost become an institution in Boston.” Yoon, who entered the Harvard Kennedy School after graduating from Princeton “wanting to change the world overnight,” finished his schooling in 1995 with what he called a “pretty cynical” attitude about...
...with support from students, intellectuals, trade unionists and white commercial farmers. The following year, the MDC helped defeat a constitutional reform bill that would have extended Mugabe's rule and appropriated farms from white landowners - Mugabe's first electoral defeat. In the June 2000 parliamentary elections, the MDC won almost as many seats as Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, despite a series of attacks that left nearly 30 supporters dead...