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...enclaves are a naturalist's paradise. No Amazon jungle can beat the diversity and uniqueness of species to be found there. Half the island's birds, upwards of 80% of its plants and 90% of its reptiles can be found nowhere else on earth, and, says palm expert John Dransfield of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew in the U.K., "we are discovering new species at an astounding rate." Many, like the now-famous rosy periwinkle, a source of compounds used to treat leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, have huge medicinal potential. "It has become a clich...
...after-hours hangout, the lounge has already played a role in normalizing the stressful academic lives of these aspiring scientists—to whatever extent that is possible. “People have used the space for birthday parties and for thesis defense parties,” Dransfield says...
...News and World Report doesn’t rank lounges, but if they did, seventh-year chemistry grad student Timothy R. Dransfield thinks he knows who would be on top. “[The Harvard Department of Chemistry’s lounge] may very well be the best graduate student lounge in any chemistry department in the country,” Dransfield says. A large, colorful, metal-heavy room with with a pool table that students call “the center,” the new lounge in Mallinckrodt Laboratory is the product of a joint faculty-student project...
...swiveling easy chairs, a pool table and a giant-screen TV. The center seems ripe for a party. “The center puts student social life in the center of the department, both literally and figuratively, and that’s a good thing,” Dransfield says...
...empty Sprite bottles and a huge bowl of coffee creamers ready to fill the coffee cups of stressed graduate students. “Some people might like to add a coffee machine—and a piano to replace the one we had to give back,” Dransfield says...