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...project approval. Going forward, outside professional services will only be engaged after written authorization to proceed with a project has been secured. There are two rationales behind this new approach. First, the FAS will now only spend its resources on designs that will be implemented. Second, this signals a shift to instead drawing on the University’s significant internal design competencies. These bright and creative minds will be called upon to assist with the design and planning of future capital projects...
...Harvard College Admissions Office is shifting the emphasis of its outreach activities from travel-based interactions to ones relying on better and more frequent use of modern communications technologies. This shift will not change the geographic coverage of admissions outreach. However, some of the local outreach around the country and world will be achieved through an even closer collaboration between the Cambridge-based College admissions team and the Harvard Clubs and alumni already distributed around the world...
...prediction many of his colleagues embrace. Still, it won't be easy, since his committee reflects the interests most directly affected by the legislation. Members from the Midwest and East where coal is abundant fear that tougher standards would fall disproportionately on coal-fired utilities, forcing a shift to less polluting but more costly natural gas - and a spike in household electric bills. They are asking Waxman to grant free pollution credits to those utilities as well as to raise the cap and stretch out the timeline for reduction of warming gases until technology is developed to capture them. Representatives...
Closing the Quad Library will allow the College “to shift resources to support library programs that are more heavily used by students,” according to Mitchell’s statement...
...called to offer some tips from the 44 days he spent suspended in a glass box above London's River Thames without food. On May 3, more than 160 journalists and fellow Northwestern alumni launched a "relay" hunger strike in solidarity with Saberi; volunteers each take a 24-hour shift...