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...bill proposed by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), offer financial support for part-time voluntary service programs. Moreover there are new private service programs evolving every day as a result of the renewed emphasis on public service. One example is Operation HOPE, a new nationwide student organized service project that will involve students on over 700 campuses. With more programs like these on the horizon, there will be endless opportunities for students of all classes to join in community service...
Scientists working out of the arboretum's facilities are currently doing work on the flora of all of China and North America, as well as work on other countries' flora. The professors working on the China flora project came to Harvard in March to discuss its progress...
...arboretum is involved in several conservation projects, one of them collecting plants from rain forests in Southeat Asia before they disappear. This project, funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society, is being done with help with the Herbarium Bogoriense, the national herbarium of Indonesia, the Sarallka and National Museum of the Philippines, as well as herbariums in Thailand and Paupau New Guinea...
Burley's particular project, funded by the National Cancer Institute, involves the collection of Southeast Asian plants that might help in alleviating or curing cancer and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The work, which is being done jointly with the University of Illinois at Chicago's pharmaceutical program, also entails the interviewing of doctors and other natives who know which plants are used as medicinals...
Burley has collected plants from the Philippines and Sumatra so far. He is also working on the National Geographic Society project and the Southeast Asia flora project...