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...seeds can be lost forever, often before scientists even know what they have. "That's like burning books before we open them," says Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which operates the Svalbard vault together with the Norwegian government and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center in Sweden. (Luckily, a group of farsighted Iraqi scientists sent a sample of their seeds to an international seed bank in Syria, before Saddam Hussein's defeat...
Though the changes at the Holyoke Center are relatively minor and more symbolic than anything, its effects did not go unnoticed by staff...
...program in 1994. Carter also oversaw the Department of Defense’s Counterproliferation Initiative and managed the reform of DOD’s national security export controls. His colleagues at the Kennedy School said they were optimistic about his upcoming tenure in DC. “The Belfer Center [for Science and International Affairs] and Harvard Kennedy School will have a difficult time filling the void Ash will leave, but he is setting such a wonderful example of what this school and center are about: putting policy into practice,” said Graham T. Allison...
...This is also the first year that the Harvard Foundation has organized an after party, which will be open to all Harvard students in the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. In addition, the organizers have arranged a food festival in the Science Center which will take place between the afternoon and evening shows. Many of the performing student groups will present ethnic food...
Before Kenneth B. Schwartz died of terminal lung cancer in 1995, he founded the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, a facility promoting compassionate treatment for patients in part patterned after the care given by his oncologist—Thomas J. Lynch, Jr. Now Lynch, the chief of hematology and oncology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, will leave Harvard after 23 years to become the director of the Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale announced Wednesday. “They gave me the opportunity...