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...losing to Princeton 4-1 in the finals of last season’s ECAC Championship tournament and 5-1 earlier this year, the Crimson ended its regular season on a high note with a 3-2 victory over the Tigers on Senior Night. The win clinched the fifth seed and home ice for the first round of the ECAC tournament, with play slated to begin next weekend. “Last year in the playoffs, they took something from us that we wanted real bad and then earlier this year they gave us a pretty good beating...
...last regular season home game [so] it is important to end on a good note,” Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91 said. Beating the No. 6 team in the country was no small feat for Harvard, who was also able to secure the fifth seed in the Bank of America ECAC Championship next weekend with the win. It was also a chance for the Crimson to redeem itself after last year’s 4-1 heartbreaking loss against the Tigers in the championship final. “It’s a huge...
...Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee—created in January 2007 to oversee interdisciplinary science across Harvard’s schools—will no longer accept seed grant proposals for cross-departmental research this spring, University Provost and committee chair Steven E. Hyman said Friday...
This year’s spring deadline, which would have been the program’s third round of seed grants, has been postponed to February of next year. When it resumes accepting grant applications, the committee intends to maintain the level of funding awarded—up to $75,000 for each project to be spent over one year...
...Svalbard is a repository for samples from national seed banks across the globe - almost every country in the world has one. Their purpose, of course, is to backup native plant varieties. If climate conditions change or a disease threatens crops currently in use, plant breeders can dip into seed banks to try to grow new crops. The seed diversity preserved in these banks can mean the difference between feast and famine. But the banks that contain our most diverse and important collections of seeds tend to be located in developing countries, where budgets are tight and conditions are less than...