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Currier House Masters Richard W. Wrangham and Elizabeth A. Ross will be taking a sabbatical next year. A Harvard Law School professor and a research coordinator at the Harvard School of Public Health will be taking their place while they are gone...
...have Jim and Nadejda spending a year here. Associate Dean Suzy Nelson will announce their appointment tomorrow. Briefly, Jim Cavallaro has served as a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and executive director of the School’s Human Rights Program. Nadejda Marques is a research coordinator for the Cost of Inaction Project at the Harvard School of Public Health’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. We feel very confident that Currier will be in terrific hands...
...rather than the limitations of life. In 1997, he wrote “Eleven Seconds,” an autobiography that documents his journey from the tragic moment on the ice to his new, very different life as a quadriplegic. That same year, he started a foundation that funds research on treating spinal cord injuries and supports patients who don’t have the money to cover medical costs. Since then, he has supported stem cell technology, a promising cure for not only spinal cord injuries, but a wide array of problems ranging from cancer to heart disease...
This year, Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology (HDRB) attracted just under 50 sophomores for its inaugural class of concentrators. The emergence of this concentration is the latest in a wider effort by the University to bring stem cell research to the forefront. It began six years ago when Professor Douglas A. Melton, while surveying the field of stem cell research, realized that bringing together some of the best minds in the subject would remove many of the barriers to collaboration. Thus, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) was founded. What began as committee meetings in the Holyoke Center evolved into...
Professor Jeffrey D. Macklis, who co-teaches SCRB 180 with Professor Paola Arlotta has been working for the past 15 years on the development and regeneration of neurons and brain circuitry in mice. He has also received significant grant money from the Travis Roy Foundation for his research (the two have become good friends...