Word: projects
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Under the large yellow crane that has been hovering over Widener Library since the summer, Harvard is equipping its largest library with climate control, new electrical wiring, new carrels and two additional reading rooms--in total a $50-million project...
Mark N. Kramer, director of the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies, said that while the $600,000 the O'Neills paid for the archives was substantially less than the amount the Russian government initially demanded, it still was more than Harvard was otherwise willing...
Cynics are already calling it MSMIT. Software giant Microsoft is funding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a five-year, $25 million research venture called "Project I-Campus" to develop technology to enhance higher education. Projects under consideration include the improvement of long-distance learning via the Internet, web-based virtual museums and "global classrooms...
...great frontiers where information-based service and advanced technology can improve people?s lives." Lofty sentiments aside, Microsoft researchers will have access to MIT's facilities and the brainpower of its faculty and students, and, most important, will also get first options on patent innovations arising from the project...
Sources: USA Today, Money.com General Accounting Office, CNN, Human Genome Project...