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...Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and its Longwood campus now have the chance to do just that. By participating in Go Cold Turkey 2004 between Nov 12 and 24, students, staff and faculty at FAS, Harvard Medical School (HMS), Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard School of Dental Medicine can notably decrease the greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts of their on-campus energy use. More than that, they have the chance to help Harvard be the number one higher-ed purchaser of renewable energy in the country...
...shortfall in some of the numbers arises from the careful planning and coordination of the program’s activities according to Robin Herman, HSPH spokeswoman. She said there were time-consuming negotiations on logistics among HSPH, the U.S. government and the three other grant recipients—Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Catholic Relief Services and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation—before the program could operate at full capacity...
While experts have long known that obesity and Type 2 diabetes are related, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) believe they have found the biological mechanism which explains the connection—a breakthrough that could eventually lead to a new treatment for this form of diabetes...
Funding for the HSPH study came from the National Institutes of Health...
...said he also believes that the information from the HSPH study will be helpful in finding treatments for Type 2 diabetes, but cautioned that its application is “not in the very near future” because researchers are occupied with exploring other avenues...