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...stem-cell community. Not convinced that an entire field could make much progress relying on a few dozen cell lines of questionable quality, in 2004 he used funds HSCI receives from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as well as from Harvard alumni, and developed a more streamlined method for generating stem-cell lines from embryos. He created more than 70 new ones and has since distributed 3,000 copies to scientists around the country for free...
...group of alumni who in 2003 led a successful charge to reduce what it termed “excessive” multi-million compensation for Harvard’s money managers has renewed its push for lower pay in light of Harvard’s plummeting endowment value...
...response to the alumni letter, University spokesman John Longbrake wrote in an e-mail that senior management compensation “reflects industry standards [and] saves significant money for the university, relative to the costs of external investment management...
...alumni added that while ideally no bonuses should be awarded to endowment managers, “if, for whatever reason, the managers receive any bonuses in the future, they should be based on increased annual income for the university,” not on estimated increases in the endowment’s total value or comparisons with other market indices...
Harvard students and alumni are pushing for Medical School professor Jim Y. Kim to be appointed U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, following Mark Dybul’s resignation from that influential position in U.S. foreign policy and global health the day after Obama’s inauguration...