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...vaccine for one type of HIV.” On a 2004 summer trip to India, Pasricha worked with her sister Sarina, who had graduated from the College that year, to develop the Global Youth Health, Education, and Leadership Program, or HELP. With funding from Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit organization, Pasricha said that she created the program to improve Indian female education and youth health awareness about the perils of smoking. “It was fun working together during our vacations and our time together at Harvard to brainstorm and develop a vision and a strategy...
...holdings.The group does not propose divestment from hedge funds and private equity—investments through which Harvard may also hold stakes in firms tied to Sudan—due to a lack of similar investment options.Alice W. Handy, founder and president of Investure, an investment group that advises non-profit institutions, echoes Campbell’s sentiments. Handy, who served as chief investment officer of the University of Virginia’s endowment from 1974 to 2003, says she can appreciate the student effort driving the divestment campaign, but urges caution in matters that deal with the endowment...
...have been camping out in shifts on the grubby tile floor of Queen's Pier since April 26, the day after the government closed the former ceremonial port for visiting British dignitaries. Chen, who is also a professor of urban planning, and members of this loose-knit coalition of non-profit and student groups are determined to stop the Hong Kong government tearing down, or relocating the historic structure to make way for a new highway and ongoing land reclamation project that is reshaping Hong Kong's waterfront. "People feel very powerless," Chen explained. "They think the government will just...
...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—will announce the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species today. The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project long supported by Harvard’s Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson, aims to compile information on over 1.8 million species and make it universally accessible free of charge, according to Laura Cinnamon, a spokeswoman for the project. Harvard has already promised over $5 million, which will go towards education, outreach, and the creation of a digital...
...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—has announced the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species...