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...more cognitive ability and more neural tissue to start with - sharper minds, broadly - may be better able to withstand the ravages of age. "In some ways, you could think of it like a trained athlete who might be able to resist some atherosclerosis of the heart," explains Dr. Bradley Hyman, director of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School...
Months after the University first announced that it would be slowing construction of its much-anticipated Allston Science Complex, administrators have begun to carve out alternative accommodations for those researchers who had been promised space there. University Provost Steven E. Hyman said in a recent interview that he hopes the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute will have space in Cambridge by the beginning of 2011. But to make room, professors in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology will have to vacate their labs in the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building...
...class reunion fundraising—typically boost year-end results. Thus far, University administrators say that donors have been receptive to the change in fundraising strategy. “Ask us 3 months ago and we would not have predicted it,” University Provost Steven E. Hyman says of the level of philanthropy as of early May. “We’re fortunate to have such generous alumni, but we’re very much in unprecedented territory.”DONOR APPRECIATIONFaust often emphasizes that Harvard is no longer in a position to think...
...Steven E. Hyman is Provost of Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School...
...excessively risky. Rather, they say, a confluence of unfortunate events decimated University budgets and forced Faust’s hand.“It would have been so imprudent and financially impossible to go ahead with this pace and scale,” said University Provost Steven E. Hyman in a recent interview with The Crimson.Whatever the origins of Harvard’s current predicament in Allston, it is clear that, at least for the foreseeable future, the visionary “blue sky” planning once preached during the Summers era has been replaced by a more measured...