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...dominated by individual fiefdoms and parochial interests and that is averse to interdisciplinary endeavor. Faust must break down these entrenched barriers—a move that will likely anger many. Luckily, Faust has a solid model to build on with the nascent Harvard Stem Cell institute and the recent creation of the first inter-faculty department.Faust must also deal with a recalcitrant and old-fashioned Faculty of Arts and Sciences. To say that the Faculty is currently in a difficult position would be an understatement—it faces a budget deficit and must implement a new general education curriculum...
...Although Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Debra T. Auguste was not directly involved with the creation of the new Life Sciences curriculum at Harvard, she is in many ways a living example of breakthroughs that can be gained from multidisciplinary research. Auguste’s research focuses on better understanding the biology of stem cells and interfacing this knowledge with tissue engineering to improve drug delivery and to better understand diseases...
...Prior to the creation of the institute, faculty members were already doing stem cell research, but the institute created an organizational umbrella in order to cut across institutional lines, says Executive Director Brock C. Reeve...
...Harvard’s creation of inter-disciplinary endeavors is accelerating, perhaps due in part to the success of ventures like HSCI...
...fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year in May.Implementation of the changes is set for the 2009-2010 academic year, to give Harvard’s 11 schools time to attend to the details of coordination.Though the original report of the Verba committee endorsed the creation of a January “J-term,” Bok left today’s proposal vague on this topic, writing that he would allow schools the “discretion to decide what, if any, programmatic use to make of the period from early January...