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Many of the broad themes for liberal education stressed in the report’s introduction—including internationalization and the sciences—were first outlined by Summers in a Commencement address last year. Summers told The Crimson last month that he was “pleased that many of the things that I have thought of as particularly important, [such as] broadening the expectation of science for non-scientists, internationalization, increasing faculty-student contact, having courses that survey broad[ly], having knowledge that represents knowing rather than ways of knowing, the emphasis and recognition of the importance...
Last June, the University entered into a historic partnership with MIT and the Cambridge-based Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research to create the $300-million Broad Institute, charged with finding clinical applications for the recently mapped human genome...
...Broad Institute, which officially began operating last month, will work to bring together math and biology to apply the genome to clinical ends...
...There is] also a sociological goal—which is to allow larger collaborative efforts in both teaching hospitals, Harvard and MIT, to bring people together to take on challenges that can’t be taken on by individuals,” said Broad Director Eric S. Lander...
...Broad Institute was just the beginning of the University’s scientific expansion...