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...mental health. Michael E. Greenberg: The director of the division of neuroscience at Children’s Hospital Boston and a professor in HMS’s department of neurology and neurobiology since 1986, Greenberg focuses his research on neurotransmitter mechanisms that are essential to central nervous system function. Anjana Rao: Rao, who earned her Ph.D. from HMS and has done her postdoctoral research there and at Dana Farber Cancer institute, conducts immunology research at the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research. Lars E. Hernquist: A professor of astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Hernquist studies dynamical processes...
...most basic function of ActBlue is enabling people to donate money to their favorite candidates online, and in small increments. Students and others who can only afford to make small donations can do so with the click of a mouse, allowing them to become active in the political sphere that they would otherwise have difficulty accessing...
...homelessness is mostly a result of the beginning of a new transitional housing program in Cambridge that accounts for the addition of 15 families to the homeless population. “The count of homelessness is done on the basis of geographical boundaries, but it’s a function as much as anything of where there are program beds, so the more program beds there are the higher the count,” he said. Berman also noted that the small increase in street homelessness may be a result of better census-taking techniques and the fact that this...
...dressed in Viking costumes, togas, Shumag’s, Renaissance dresses, and stilt-walkers. Despite their name, the Harvard-Radcliffe Juggling Club does not limit itself to juggling. Members meet every Sunday to practice circus skills, which include stilt-walking and unicycling. While the club’s chief function involves learning and practicing, Skinner and Shivvers are excited for their upcoming performance. “Because juggling and circus acts are all about performing,” Skinner says. “It’s about making other people happy.” The Arts First gig will...
Even with two-way connectivity, makers may still allow consumers to opt out of subscribing to the unit-tracking function, in part because that service would increase the annual fee - about $50 - that many companies already charge to transmit traffic updates and other information. What's more, it's not the average consumer who would track down a criminal to get his TomTom or Mio back. But the fact that it could be tracked at all would serve as a powerful deterrent; it would also help authorities locate and bust larger-scale crime rings, which typically hawk stolen electronics...