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...Broad Institute—a research coalition among MIT, Harvard, and several Harvard-affiliated hospitals, including the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—will share the five-year grant with four New York research centers. The recipients include Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Weill Medical College of Cornell University...
...leave. I am afraid. The politicians will just have a free hand to build up people's fears and fan ethnic intolerance." Moreover, the region is already undergoing a kind of realignment. Neighboring Montenegro won independence from Serbia in late Spring, and contentious talks are under way to grant autonomy to ethnic Albanians in Kosovo - where Serbs are an embattled minority - by as early as next year. Serb politicians in Belgrade and in Bosnia warn that an "imposed" solution in Kosovo could inflame Serbs across the region. Of course, it's possible that the current round of nationalist posturing...
Likewise, Caltech’s case falls far short of a “proof.” Caltech’s emphasis on science research means that its faculty members can rely on federal agencies and other grant-givers for funding—a luxury that many Harvard humanities professors don’t enjoy. Whereas Caltech derives more than 40 percent of its revenue from research grants and contracts, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences derives just 17 percent of its income from those sources. In other words, Harvard must be more reliant on private...
Harvard professors garnered three of this year’s 25 MacArthur “genius grants,” the MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday. Developmental biologist Kevin C. Eggan, surgeon and writer Atul A. Gawande and cosmologist Matias Zaldarriaga are among the diverse group of creative and promising fellows who will be granted $500,000 over the next five years. The MacArthur Foundation, an independent grant-making institution, closely guards the release of its recipient list. The professors were informed last week. “They made me swear on my children not to tell anyone but my wife...
...during the semesters and summers.” His latest work, “The Stuff of Thought,” was completed just last week and is scheduled to be published next year. The rest of his semester will go towards the preparation of journal articles and a grant proposal for the topics explored in his book. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel will also spend a good portion of his sabbatical at the keyboard. Sandel will pen two books—one related to the themes presented in his course on ethics and biotechnology, which he taught...