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Prior to the most recent group of approved stem cell lines, only 22 lines had been eligible for federal funding, according to Harvard Medical School associate professor George Q. Daley ’82, director of the Children’s Hospital lab that oversaw the development of the recently approved lines...
During his five-year tenure, Light oversaw the completion of a $600 million capital campaign, the complete renovation of the school’s Baker Library, and the introduction of the 2+2 Program, which allows rising seniors to apply and, if accepted, work for two years after graduation before matriculating...
...strings, which means they are also entitled to any potential commercial windfall that may come from the application of the cells to a treatment or therapy. "Any discoveries they make using the lines will be theirs," says Amy Wilkerson, associate vice president for research support at Rockefeller University, who oversaw the submission of the university's lines...
Smith appointed Kirwan to replace Sweet in September. She assumed her position on Nov. 2, around the time Giancotti approached Smith about her departure. Before coming to Harvard, Giancotti had been a manager at the professional service firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. During her tenure at Harvard, she oversaw the restructuring and growth of FAS’s finance offices and spearheaded the publication of a new annual FAS financial report...
...what about the Hurricane Katrina debacle? An act of God, right? Not really. When the storm raced toward New Orleans in late August 2005, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration feared the worst. For years they had been warning the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversaw the city's 350 miles of levees, that its system was inadequate. The scientists wanted the Corps to revise the Standard Project Hurricane, a model that determines how extensive the levees should be. For instance, the Corps did not consider the tendency of soil to sink over time, and it excluded...