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Among the institute??s first projects will be “The O’Connor Project,” named in recognition of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s conjecture that affirmative action will no longer be necessary after 25 years. Ogletree said he plans to conduct a series of summits in hopes of devising a strategy to close the achievement gap that exists between minority and non-minority students...
...third recipient of the Ash Institute??s awards were the Iowa Charter Agencies, a collection of six state departments that operate under charters that hold them financially accountable while exempting them from many bureaucratic restrictions...
...player in genetic research. With scientific programs devoted to genome sequencing and analysis, cancer, medical and population genetics, computational biology and bioinformatics, and chemical biology, the Institute will benefit enormously from new laws erasing ambiguities in state law over stem cell research. The support will be invaluable to the Institute??s work, and hopefully it will soon be receiving funding from the Massachusetts state government...
Harvard’s friendly reception for Hanfstaengl was only one of numerous examples of the university’s indifference to anti-Semitic violence in Germany on which I focused at the Wyman Institute??s conference. The press at the time linked the Hanfstaengl episode with the administration’s permitting the Nazi consul to place a wreath bearing a swastika in the University chapel, calling this Harvard’s recognition of the Hitler regime. Moreover, although British universities boycotted the “Nazified” University of Heidelberg’s anniversary celebration...
...said he plans to continue teaching and will remain the director of the Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute??which awards fellowships to promote scholarship in African and African American studies...