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...director of the Madagascar Center for Biodiversity Conservation, a unit of the U.S. environmental NGO Conservation International. He and his wife, Joanna Durbin, who heads the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island, are heartened by the 2002 election of reform-minded President Marc Ravalomanana, who has pledged to expand his country's network of protected conservation areas from 1.7 million hectares to 6 million hectares over the next five years. The RBG is mapping the island's flora to help the government identify the best sites for 11 new reserves. It has also included Madagascar...
Dominguez noted that the choice of Annan also underscores the University’s push to expand the study of Africa. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences initiated the African Languages Program at the beginning of the academic year to significantly increase resources and classes for students studying Africa...
Kalt, who has helped steer the program to expand American Indian studies throughout the University, is the only professor at Harvard to focus his research exclusively on American Indians...
...OEB’s growth today is badly stunted, with no room to fill new appointments and limited space to expand these rapidly growing collections. The Museum of Comparative Zoology inhabits an old building with limited modern climate control. And substantial expansion of the sciences into the North Yard over the next decade has largely overlooked OEB; while the original master plan of a few years back would have given them an entire building, the only place they might find space now is in a new northwest facility planned for interdisciplinary collaborative labs...
...because you can’t promote it without being able to help students pay for it,” Harris says. “Having not heard a word of dissent yet, I can’t imagine that it won’t be a recommendation to expand opportunities for study abroad...