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...even Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine Scott T. Weiss—who said he has been continuously funded by the NIH for 30 years and works in a field often prioritized for funding??said that grant money is always uncertain...
...editors: The Crimson reported the expected executive order permitting the federal funding of medical research involving the destruction of human embryos (“Stem Cells to get Federal Funding?? news story, March 9). The judgment by the author that the previous arrangements imposed “onerous restrictions” on research seemed to dismiss out of hand the moral good which the now lapsed rules sought to promote. The article did not mention a second executive order, which is intended to unfetter science from restriction by any narrow political ideology. These two acts are intimately linked...
...state, towns and cities have submitted thousands of shovel-ready projects—immediately actionable proposals—in the hopes of receiving funding from the stimulus package, and Cambridge was no different. According to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley, Cambridge has a large list of projects that require funding??including street work, sewer reconstruction, and a renovation of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. Cambridge budget director David J. Kale said that the financial stimulus will “take pressure off local revenues” since projects will be able to move forward without drawing from...
...Obama’s approval by the second week of February. Massachusetts, with its myriad research hospitals and universities, is the nation’s largest recipient of NIH funding per capita and is second only to California in overall funding. In 2007, Massachusetts received $2.2 billion in NIH funding??roughly 10 percent of NIH’s $22.8 billion spent on extramural research. Harvard received $1.4 billion, or 60 percent of the state’s allocation. Casey said he believed the stimulus represented a “substantial infusion of funds” for scientific research...
...Harvard has a cheerleading squad?! Oh my God, they have a GOOD cheerleading squad!” Besides general stereotypes and biases working against them, the cheerleading squad also had to deal with more concrete, technical issues, such as limited access to practice facilities and a shortage in funding??both of which presented major obstacles in the path to national competition. Coach Kristin Capasso commented on these hurdles, saying cheerleading is “not a priority on Harvard’s campus,” despite the alumni and fans that “recognize the talent...