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...keynote speaker, Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist, spoke about the importance of sharing knowledge throughout the University’s scientific communities...
...Sciences curriculum spans five departments, taught by “interdisciplinary teams of faculty [to] address topics in the context of larger biological questions.” At the Wyss Institute, there is no doubt that this interdisciplinary “bioengineering of the future,” as Provost Steven E. Hyman called it, will bring major benefits to mankind. Fortunately, Mr. Wyss has the foresight—and the funds—to finance this initiative. Harvard, like most research universities, depends on federal funding to conduct research. In 2007, Harvard received $329 million in grants from...
...Wyss proposal comes at a time when bioengineering—one of the fastest growing concentrations in the United States—is ready to take center stage at the University. Bioengineering was identified as an important priority five years ago, Provost Steven E. Hyman said, citing the transition of DEAS into its own school last fall as an example of a heightened commitment to the applied sciences...
...fear is that in the long term with a very expensive war, and perhaps a very expensive bailout, and a recession that decreases tax revenues, it will be very hard to get the kind of funding into science and engineering that is absolutely needed,” said Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman, who is a member of the Coalition for Life Sciences, which advocates for the NIH budget...
Huchra served as a senior advisor to the provost during the search...