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...Wagers of the Joslin Diabetes Center; and Rachel I. Wilson ’96, who runs a neurobiology lab at Harvard Medical School. The grant provides each researcher with salary, benefits, and a research budget of over $1.5 million for a six-year period. It also pays for the cost of research space and equipment, according to a news release on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Web site. Unveiled in March of 2008, the Early Career initiative’s purpose is to help young scientists concentrate on their research by removing concerns about funding...
...Business School has selected its first-ever Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, the school announced Wednesday. Elizabeth M. Scharpf, a 2007 graduate of the Business School and the Kennedy School, will receive $25,000 to fund a social venture she has started. Her business, Sustainable Health Enterprises, aims to make low-cost sanitary napkins from locally-sourced materials for women and girls in developing countries. The pads, which are being introduced in a pilot project in Rwanda, will allow women and girls to stay at work and in school while they are menstruating. Currently, many African girls miss up to 45 days...
Borrowing a trick from MLS, the teams will also play in cozier venues. "For fans it's a more intimate, authentic soccer experience when you're closer to the field, instead of in cavernous environment," says Antonucci. "Plus, it doesn't cost as much to operate and staff a smaller facility." For example, in the WUSA the Washington Freedom played in RFK Stadium, the former home of the Washington Redskins and their 50,000 crazed fans. Now, the Freedom will play at a 5,200-seat soccer complex in Maryland...
...integrate Twitter pre-game, half-time and post-game," says Antonucci. "We want to be known as a league that innovates and stays current with communication mediums. It's a way that our fans can get closer to the experience, closer to the athletes, and it's a low-cost way to do that, which is very important for a new league watching its bottom-line very closely...
Nickels and Dimes. Low-cost European carrier Ryanair has announced it will do away with its airport check-in counters and begin charging customers a $6.50 fee to check in online, which, after October 1, will be your only option...