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...team concept also extends to the field. CforC, which is building a core staff of 20, can tap into a network of experts it has assembled, who number 30 so far and range from ex-officers and diplomats to former business executives and NGO operatives. For each project, it convenes small teams of staff and associates, mixing and matching skill sets to meet the client's needs. For example, Slim says, a team may have "a human-rights person, an environmentalist and a private-equity expert--now that's pretty wacky...
Every team had been given a standard kit of biological parts at the beginning of the summer. Since iGEM, which began in 2003, does not give prompts, a diverse array of projects were presented. The grand prize went to Slovenia’s “Immunobricks,” a project that developed a vaccine...
...With a project titled “Bactricity,” a group of undergraduates became the first Harvard team to win an award at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Championship Jamboree held at MIT last weekend...
...team, mentored by medical school professors and graduate students, was chosen as one of the six finalists and won the Best Food or Energy Project award. Eighty-four teams representing 21 countries competed this year...
...parent and third-year participant in the Dumplings program. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Lennon showed an excerpt from his 2006 Oscar winning documentary “The Blood of Yingzhou District” at the dinner. The film, co-produced by Ruby Yang of the Chang Ai Media project, depicts the ostracism faced by children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic in rural China. HCC intends to donate $1,000 of the proceeds from the evening to the communities Lennon worked with in the documentary, according to Geng. “Mr. Lennon’s work reminds...