Word: knoll
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...resources to do empirical research [at Harvard] are much better than they are at Yale," said Professor of Biology and Curator of the Paleobotanical Collections in the Herbaria Andrew H. Knoll. "I think the attraction as it is to the Yale department is to be part of a new effort trying to get off the ground...
...been instrumental in rejuvenating one of Harvard's important biological assets," Knoll said. "He has also done great service as a teacher and has contributed to the general intellectual climate...
Harvard has not yet named a new director for its herbaria. A departmental committee that has been formed to plan the next five years of development will likely play a role in any new appointments, Knoll said...
While Donoghue's departure does not create an immediate need for a replacement, it does "press on the department's need to articulate a larger plan, with attention to the herbarium," Knoll said...
...19th century painter who went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...