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...former New York Times reporter Linda J. Greenhouse ’68, New York City Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Photeine M. Anagnostopoulos ’81, and the Smithsonian’s Director of the Museum of Natural History Cristián Samper won six-year terms in an alumni vote to serve on the 30-member board.Former CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Joshua S. Boger, who received the sixth most votes, will serve the remaining three-year term vacated by Arne S. Duncan ’86, who left to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education...
...Barnes and her colleagues studied 3,375 patients age 65 years or older who were enrolled in a study analyzing heart disease and cognition. Researchers recorded which of the patients developed dementia in the six-year study period, then isolated the risk factors that appeared to make dementia more likely. Many factors were considered: age, genetic risk factors, mental health status, depression, physical fitness, alcohol consumption, fine motor skills and social support. In the end, only a handful of factors, arranged on a 15-point scale, emerged as being highly predictive of dementia...
Gordon is the namesake of the Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center and the Albert H. Gordon Professorship of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and served a six-year term on Harvard’s Board of Overseers— the second of the University’s two governing boards...
...scram! That's the offer that Japan made on April 1 to unemployed foreigners of Japanese ancestry. These immigrants, mostly from Brazil and Peru, had previously obtained special visas to do manufacturing work in Japan for companies like Toyota. With the number of available jobs at a six-year low, the nation can no longer afford to pay them unemployment benefits and is asking them to leave...
...Harvard Stem Cell Institute; Amy J. Wagers of the Joslin Diabetes Center; and Rachel I. Wilson ’96, who runs a neurobiology lab at Harvard Medical School. The grant provides each researcher with salary, benefits, and a research budget of over $1.5 million for a six-year period. It also pays for the cost of research space and equipment, according to a news release on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Web site. Unveiled in March of 2008, the Early Career initiative’s purpose is to help young scientists concentrate on their research by removing concerns about...