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...called MOSES, an acronym for its Italian name, the $5.3 billion project is about half done, but it's not scheduled for completion till 2014. Financing has slowed construction: at one time, Venice had to sell off some of its venerated palazzi to raise money. But, says Rafael Bras, dean of the engineering school at the University of California at Irvine and chair of the committee overseeing MOSES, another change in the global climate is helping. The worldwide financial crisis has prompted governments to throw vast amounts of money into public works to stimulate their economies. And so MOSES...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith plans to send a letter within the week advising departments on filling open staff positions and will issue a question-and-answer report detailing Harvard’s current financial status...
...cure depression. “Depression is a serious medical problem, and if you have it, you should go straight to the doctor,” she said. “I believe that writers have to be happy and well in order to write.” Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Barbara J. Grosz described Lewis’s work as embodying “so clearly the artistic and humanistic pursuit that this lectureship was established to honor...
...April, we announced that planning for House renewal would begin and that the entire process will stretch perhaps a decade or more. Dean Hammonds is leading planning related to program considerations through the work of five subcommittees, two of which will be made up solely of students. The subcommittees will consider issues of residential living spaces, the purpose of House life, and the need for academic and social spaces within a House...
Drew G. Faust is the President of Harvard University, Michael D. Smith is the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Evelynn M. Hammonds is Dean of Harvard College...