Word: expansionism
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After the City of Boston issued a 50-page report from city officials and community members on Harvard’s forecasted development in Allston for the next half-century this August, some residents said the document raised concerns about the University’s ability to adequately incorporate the...
Just four years ago, Harvard and MIT launched a decade-long experiment to test an innovative organizational model for scientific discovery. Now, the results are in. The Broad Institute, a unique joint effort between Harvard and MIT to bring genome-based information to medicine, received a $400 million gift from...
BRA Senior Project Manager Gerald Autler said the unique nature of Harvard’s expansion justified the detailed nature of the scoping document and would provide the University with a lot to think about over the coming months.
Harvard Allston Task Force Chair Ray Mellone said the University’s challenges were compounded by the fact that they must keep in mind both the development of a neighborhood as well as the expansion of a campus.
“This is about an expansion in time,” Lander said. “The goal is to put this endowment away for a period of years so when the gift [from the Broads] ends, there will be a permanent stream to continue that into the...