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...drugs that might combat the progression of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common version of AMD which causes vision loss in up to eight million American elderly a year. Merck will pay an initial $3 million, along with later fees for further milestones in the development and royalties on resulting products, in exchange for the exclusive intellectual property rights to Rando’s work. “The good thing about a big company like Merck is they can actually do the applied work that we have no interest in, being in an academic setting...
...Next year, we will continue working in sub-committees, but the topics may change in some cases.The Peer Advising sub-committee designed the Peer Advising Fellows program. The roles of the Fellows are multi-faceted. They will contact their advisees prior to their arrival on campus to initiate the development of a one-on-one relationship so that they can, for example, help freshmen prepare for their first meeting with their academic adviser, encourage them to engage in academic exploration, and generally be a comforting guide in the weeks leading up to arriving in Cambridge. Fellows will have thorough knowledge...
...Arts and Sciences meeting on Tuesday suggested that I was dissatisfied with our committee’s proposed general education reforms because they would allow any and all departmental courses to count for general education distribution. Although I now feel that we should in fact encourage departments to develop and identify courses particularly suitable for general education and for non-concentrators, I do not want to leave the impression that I repent of the report on general education. In fact, what I wanted to emphasize was my strong support for the general education recommendations and my hope that the Faculty...
...possible successor to the Core Curriculum as early as the fall.Knowles, who did a two-year stint in the British Royal Air Force before graduating first-class from Oxford University, earned renown as a chemist before becoming an administrator. A scholar of enzymes, Knowles was the first to develop a full kinetic description of a simple enzyme-catalyzed reaction.That enzyme, triosephosphate isomerase, or TIM, is now known to chemistry students everywhere.AN INTERIM CHOICEWhen Bok took over the dean search after the Harvard Corporation tapped him as interim president in February, he left open the option of appointing a permanent dean...
...recent years, March of Dimes-funded research grantees have helped develop...