Word: researching
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...press conference, Healy announced that the City has asked Robert Wasserman, a national expert on police strategy, diversity, and management, and Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, to chair a committee "to facilitate an analysis and develop recommendations" from the incident. Healy said that the committee's mission is "larger than a mere investigation into the events of July 16," and that it will examine the police department's organization, policies, and relationships with the local community...
...able to build a great program, I want him to recruit a lot of faculty, and I want our neurology program to get much bigger than it is now," Alpern said. "I actually want someone with his great taste to come here and recruit a lot of clinical and research faculty, and so we put up a package that would allow him to do both...
...Hafler joined the Harvard faculty in 1984 and led a team that identified the genes implicated in causing multiple sclerosis, which he said is likely his "most important and long-lasting" accomplishment. But Alpern said that what makes Hafler exceptional among researchers world-wide are his leadership skills and ability to translate research work to the clinical domain...
...Every department needs leadership if the department is going to go from outstanding to more outstanding," said Stephen Waxman, Yale's current neurology chair, who also praised Hafler's work in organizing international research consortia. "Among people who are really good scientists, very few have the innate ability to build programs and collaborations and cooperative efforts, and he has that ability...
...Alpern said that Hafler's decision to leave for Yale would likely not hurt Harvard's neurology program significantly, given its depth of researchers, but noted that the appointment would be a "major improvement" for Yale's department. He also said that Harvard and Yale have traditionally collaborated in research, despite their friendly competition, and that Harvard faculty had helped Yale build its cancer center...