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...pollution that has long been toxic to coral. Additionally, centuries of overfishing may have disrupted the food chain, allowing the overgrowth of other types of algae, which compete with coral for food. This accumulated stress has made reefs vulnerable to modern disease. "The patient is terminally ill," says marine biologist John Pandolfi of the National Museum of Natural History--Smithsonian Institution in Washington, "but the underlying sickness is pollution and overfishing...
Renowned evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould dies of cancer at his home in New York at age 60, a few days before a final exam for one of his classes...
Summers cites the hiring of two professors—computational biologist Martin Nowak and psychologist Steven Pinker—as major coups for Harvard...
...think that the kind of cultural practices are difficult to correct because they’re very subtle,” says Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University and a molecular biologist. “There is no quick fix. Basically you just have to constantly whittle away at each one of these things...
Summers said Harvard has recruited several “globally recognized stars,” including computational biologist Martin Nowak and psychologist Steven Pinker, and has given tenure to Assistant Professor Leah Price ’91 from within the English Department...