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Former Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health Barry R. Bloom noticed in 2001 that he had “virtually no money in the richest university in the world to do all kinds of new interesting things [he had] wanted...
...Bloom and his administration then took steps to revise stipulations on future grants and donations to allow the creation of reserve funds that have grown large enough over the past few years for the school to avoid severe cutbacks in the wake of the economic recession...
...needed to hire someone, if someone lost a grant, [and] there was research that we thought was promising, [but] the NIH hadn’t anticipated, we could keep this place going in exactly the same directions we thought were important on our own money,” Bloom said in an interview earlier this month...
Some naysayers pontificate about the imminent death of literature because young people don’t read anymore. They often cite the waning attention span of younger generations arising from technology. Harold Bloom said in an interview that the problem is primarily a result of technological change: “People are trapped in the age of what you might call the triple screen: the motion-picture screen—and this is in ascending order of evil in terms of what it does to their minds throughout the world—the television screen, and finally the computer screen...
...Friday, Harvard faculty members held their own discussion panel at the conference, focusing on issues in healthcare. Panel members included such notables as Ellwood, Frenk, School of Public Health professor David E. Bloom, Design School professor Toshiko Mori, and Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter, along with Faust...