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Harvard's Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said that Harvard's lobbyists have been emphasizing the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to science.
But Rudenstine's role in lobbying Congress to maintain federal funding levels for university research programs, all the more crucial since the departure of Harvard's Washington point-person, Vice-President James H. Row III '73, is a welcome use of Harvard's prestige for a purpose beyond enlarging the...
Nationwide, universities get $75 billion in federal research funds, most of which is channeled through organizations like the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, and schools in Massachusetts receive about $4 billion in such funding. Congress is considering a proposal to reduce such funding by 12.5 percent...
A group of New England educational leaders, led by Rudenstine and Tufts University President John DiBiaggio, recently traveled to Washington to lobby legislators and White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Podesta. We hope that Congress and the Clinton Administration will listen to the universities and maintain, if not...
In part, these lobbying efforts may be a result of self-interest; Harvard is a beneficiary of federal research funds. In April, Rudenstine and the University similarly lobbied Congress to maintain funding levels for teaching hospitals, of which Harvard Medical School is affiliated with more than a dozen.