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...service operated out of Brown University—collects textbook information from stores at various colleges, including the Harvard Coop, and allows students to compare prices against those of online vendors. Last fall, BrunoBooks merged with the similar Harvard-based service CrimsonReading. org, which was founded by Tom D. Hadfield ’08 and Jon T. Staff ’10 in 2006 to help students find cheaper textbooks...
CrimsonReading.org, the Web site that allows Harvard students to compare textbook prices online, will be powered this semester by BrunoBooks, a similar site started in 2007 at Brown. Like Crimson Reading, which was founded in 2006 by then-UC members Tom D. Hadfield ’08 and Jon T. Staff V ’10, BrunoBooks uses ISBNs (International Serial Book Numbers) to compare prices from online vendors with university bookstore prices. Under the terms of the agreement, no matter how much money Crimson Reading makes this semester, $3,000 will go to the charity that Crimson Reading...
...Hadfield worked with University of Toronto professors Peter A. Singer and Abdallah S. Daar of the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health to launch the project...
After visiting Tanzania, Hadfield said that he encountered the challenges that malaria researchers faced finding funding. But through MalariaEngage.org, the Tanzanian institute will distribute the donated funds to programs that range from improving the use of insecticide-treated nets to movements for strengthening collaboration between traditional healers and health workers...
...fascinated by how we can use technology to address the major challenges facing the planet,” Hadfield said. “I think it would be really cool to find a way to use social networking tools to eradicate malaria...