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Like MIT's Infinite Corridor, which connectshundreds of offices, labs, and classrooms, andseems to stretch forever, The Link connects anumber of science buildings in what we might callHarvard's 'Finite Corridor.' "One of the reasonsthat they wanted to put the physical link betweenHoffman and Mallinckrodt is that it gives us anuninterrupted physical path [indoors] from thefarthest reaches of Organismic and EvolutionaryBiology, through to the University Museum, the EPSdepartment, Chemistry, and all the way to theFairchild Biochemistry Building," says Alan Long,director of the chemical laboratories...
...Link will house three academic units: thescientific groups of James Anderson and CynthiaFriend, and another, still unnamed team on the topfloor...
Anderson, Weld Professor of AtmosphericChemistry, is main occupant of The Link. Tenuredin both Chemistry and EPS, he is renowned forairborne expeditions over Antarctica, where he andhis crew study atmospheric ozone levels. The grouphe oversees will occupy two floors. "One of thebiggest motivations for constructing The Link wasthat the major occupant, Jim Anderson, provides anintellectual link between the two departments,"says Long...
Jerry Connors, assistant director of thechemistry laboratories, says Anderson is the idealoccupant for The Link. "He's currently up thestreet [in the Engineering Sciences Laboratory]but he really belongs down here. It's where hiscolleagues are, where the students are, wherethere's more interaction. That's what this placeis about...
These days, universities are re-integratingtheir departments. And Harvard is leading the way.President Rudenstine seemed to have Link on thebrain when, during last spring's CommencementAddress, he discussed the University's plans torestructure. "Many of our specific proposals forHarvard's next decade are intendedto...consolidate and coordinate, to integrate, andto lower barriers between units whenever it isproductive and feasible to do so...The newfacilities will be designed to create--quiteliterally--physical as well as programmatic'bridges' between separate units...