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...future of environmental studies at the University will be determined in part by a 15-member faculty committee to be chaired by the Kennedy School's Pratt Professor of Public Service Lewis M. Branscomb. Bok announced the creation of the panel in his Earth Day report...
...restrictions on high-tech exports cost American firms more than $11 billion annually in lost business. As the U.S. works to reduce its trade deficit and recapture overseas markets, those restrictions amount to a self-imposed trade barrier the U.S. can scarcely afford. Furthermore, maintains Harvard's Lewis Branscomb, former chief scientist at IBM, the scope of restricted items, from straitjackets to wind tunnels, is unnecessarily broad. "It would be nice to ensure that the Russians didn't learn anything important," he says, "but there's just no way to do that...
...problem is still in the future. "I see no problem with the Pentagon unless the funding rises above 10 percent [of overall research]," said Lewis M. Branscomb, professor at the Kennedy School of Government and former head scientist at IBM. "The DOD is capable of funding research in ways that are acceptable to the university...
Brooks said his successor "enjoys a fine reputation particularly as a practitioner in the field." Branscomb, who received both a Master's and Ph.D. degree in physics from Harvard, specializes in the use of science by industry and the role of science in industry innovation...
...Branscomb will assume his new post October...