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...Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School announced a new fellowship position last week that will be funded by Cooley Godward Kronish, a technology-focused law firm. The fellowship will be aimed at establishing a closer link between the organizations. The clinic—part of the Law School??s Berkman Center for Internet & Society—defends anonymous online posters against legal demands for their identities, negotiates online music and software licensing agreements, and explores issues such as internet surveillance and the influence of the internet on democracy, according to its director, Phillip R. Malone...
Medpedia—an online collaborative medical encyclopedia affiliated with Harvard Medical School??debuted Tuesday after months of closed beta testing, receiving 12,000 unique visits on its first day, according to its founder. James M. Currier, the Web site’s founder and chairman, said that the encyclopedia solicits advice and articles from medical professionals, including HMS professors, in an effort to serve as an accessible, comprehensive source for health-related information, which he said involves too much paper-pushing and not enough technology at present. He said that 5,000 medical professionals signed...
...skin are as accurate as those taken from the blood. Others have asked whether this technology—which is still years away from being tested in humans—could be read through different skin pigments. But Gordon C. Weir, a professor of medicine at the Medical School??s Joslin Diabetes Center, remained cautiously optimistic. “Everyone is always coming up with new ideas but if this technology does what it says it does, I believe it would be a great tool for diabetes patients,” he said...
...Government Graham T. Allison ’62 noted that the school is also attracting people leaving the Bush administration, including Meghan L. O’Sullivan, a former deputy national security adviser, and R. Nicholas Burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs. Polk suggested the Kennedy School??s administration accelerate the searches that are currently underway for high-level faculty positions. “The student body would have liked it if the administration had worked to bring in some rock star professors to replace the rock star professors that have left...
...University will temporarily house the building’s planned tenants—the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, a University bioengineering institute, and the Medical School??s systems biology department—in alternative renovated spaces in Cambridge and Longwood...