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Months after the University first announced that it would be slowing construction of its much-anticipated Allston Science Complex, administrators have begun to carve out alternative accommodations for those researchers who had been promised space there. University Provost Steven E. Hyman said in a recent interview that he hopes the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute will have space in Cambridge by the beginning of 2011. But to make room, professors in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology will have to vacate their labs in the Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Building...
...Summers’s tumultuous relationship with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and ultimate resignation shifted focus away from calendar reform, ultimately delaying the J-Term discussion.During this period, then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 made developing General Education, increasing student social space and improving student advising his priorities.In spring 2007, the Undergraduate Council reignited the discussion, calling for a student referendum on support for the calendar revision. Of the 3,467 students who voted, 84 percent responded in favor of the change.At the end of that academic year, Bok announced that...
...vision he hoped to make the hallmark of his tenure. As evidenced in his annual letters to the community, his primary motivation to invest in Allston was to ensure the continued strength of the sciences at Harvard, which he said would soon suffer from a crippling insufficiency of space. Alyssa A. Goodman, an astronomy professor who served on the Provost’s Advisory Group on Science at the time, recalls the visionary scope of Summers’ ambitions.“A faculty group is not usually convened to just dream big,” Goodman says...
...this magnitude.While community-wide e-mails such as those that detailed the $77 million of budget cuts do not generally come as a surprise to the two, they do not necessarily have strong influence over their content.“They are consulted,” McLoughlin says.SOCIAL SPACE UNCERTAINTY Even on the more level playing field of Council politics, Flores has faltered at times in applying Neustadt’s aphorism. As some UC members grew disillusioned with an inability to elicit responsiveness from administrators on the issue of social space, they opted to organize their own effort...
...Harvard College Library officials announced that the Quad library would be closed next year as a cost-cutting measure and would instead be reapportioned as a social space. Six days later, the larger cuts package was announced, including the closure of the Penthouse Coffee Bar at the Student Organization Center at Hilles...