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Last November, a group of universities, which included Harvard, Yale, and Boston University, came together to support a joint statement announcing a broad-based commitment to “promote availability of health technologies in developing countries for essential medical care.” One of the key points of this document stated that university intellectual property should not serve as a barrier to global access: Drugs created in academic labs should not be priced out of reach for poor people in poor countries. The joint statement has now gained the support of the National Institute of Health, the Center...
...lived up to its mission to “bring [its] knowledge to bear on the world’s greatest challenges.” In this context, MIT’s patent-pooling announcement appears to be an unsuccessful attempt to catch up with Harvard and other Boston-area academic-research centers in the race to deliver essential medicines to patients in developing countries...
Over the last month, the Fly entertained offers to sell the space to the Bee, the Chabad House at Harvard, and the Hasty Pudding Club, and hired Boston real estate management firm Colliers Meredith & Grew to help consider the bids. But in the end, the Fly decided to lease the building in order to retain ownership of the property and maintain an amicable relationship with what Powers called their “sister club...
...wish I had gone out of my comfort zone and tried new things. New subjects, new classes, new sports. Did you know that there is a club for clowns? A club for surfers? In Boston? Freshman year saw me throwing myself into school activities, afraid that I wouldn’t make any friends if I didn’t, since I didn’t go to parties. But I went for the things I did in high school: the radio station, journalism, even Ultimate Frisbee (although in high school, it was a more informal extracurricular pursuit...
Oona’s first opened doors in the Square in 1972 and later opened stores in Boston, Newburyport, and Provincetown, White said...