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...Graham has got a deep commitment to protecting the environment, but in a cost-efficient way," said Granger Morgan '63, who was Graham's PhD. advisor at Carnegie Mellon University. "Graham is conservative-bent, inclined towards heavy use of cost-benfit analysis and promoting market-based solutions...
...exam that uses group activities, personal interviews and even Lego blocks to identify kids with potential that might be missed by a test like the SAT. "Students who succeed in college can overcome obstacles," says Bial, whose research is funded by a $1.9 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. "A standard paper-and-pencil test doesn't tell you much about these skills...
...other things, the possibility exists that as transgenes in pollen drift, they will fertilize wild plants, and weeds will emerge that are hardier and even more difficult to control. No one knows how common the exchange of genes between domestic plants and their wild relatives really is, but Margaret Mellon, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' agriculture and biotechnology program, is not alone in thinking that it's high time we find out. Says she: "People should be responding to these concerns with experiments, not assurances...
Rudenstine also said he has many suitors in the foundation world--he served as executive vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for three years before accepting the Harvard presidency...
...originally moved to New York to become president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the educational foundation where he was a member of the founding board of trustees...