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The team of researchers, including Ann Pearson of Harvard and Jill Mikucki of Dartmouth, was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and Harvard’s Microbial Sciences Initiative.
According to Pearson, an associate professor of earth and planetary sciences, the team based the research on samples collected from Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. This region is considered to be one of the world’s most extreme deserts and contains an iron-rich subglacial outflow...
Galvin added that it is still too early to tell whether a potential faculty retirement incentive program would be University-wide or restricted to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Further research on these microbes is being conducted by Jill Mikucki, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth.
Prompted by the 1969 storming of University Hall by student activists, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences took a strong stand against the Corps that year, officially requesting that the University refuse to grant credit from all ROTC courses. The University’s current relationship with the Corps was...