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...reshape Harvard’s primary federal source. Last year, Harvard received 70.6 percent of its federal research funding from the biomedical agency. “The whole current process is proving to be very onerous to applicants and reviewers alike,” said Lawrence A. Tabak, co-chair of the NIH working group. “A lot of it is material that isn’t very informative if what you think you should be doing is evaluating applications for their impact and innovation.” The working group’s presentations call for increased...
After his third time teaching Cosmic Connections, Hernquist became chair of the Astronomy Department and stopped teaching the course...
...great class, I’m really excited to come here every day,” he says. “There’s a demo every day—it’s never just pure lecture. One day [Charbonneau] got into a rocket chair and zoomed across the room to demonstrate one of Newton’s laws. Another time he froze a grapefruit in liquid nitrogen and broke it on the floor...
...confer on the abductee issue in the context of broader human rights violations in North Korea. Their view was clear: "We will not have satisfaction on denuclearization, human rights or the abductees until the [North Korean] regime is gone," says panelist Michael Green, senior adviser and Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies based in Washington...
...delegates from India and China unexpectedly objected to aspects of the text, including the degree of technical assistance poor nations would receive from the rich for low-carbon development. The impasse - the latest in several tortured days of negotiations - led Rachlat Witolear, the chair of the conference, to twice suspend the open session for further behind the scenes meetings, leading to a real fear that diplomats might leave the island without a final agreement...