Word: stemming
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...construction of a new campus in Allston is likely to cost billions. Stem cell research, a promising new field that top administrators are committed to pursuing, must be funded solely through private sources according to federal law. And even smaller long-term initiatives, such as increasing financial aid and the recently-announced plan to spend $50 million to increase diversity, rely on steady endowment growth...
Huchra will be responsible for coordinating Harvard’s adherence to federal research laws—including those pertaining to work on stem cells and human subjects—and planning the science spaces in Harvard’s future Allston campus...
...Graduate School of Education and School of Public Health are also probably slated to move. We know that the sciences are the implicit focus of the Allston move, with plans for hundreds of thousands of square footage devoted immediately to new science facilities, including the burgeoning Harvard Stem Cell Institute. We know now, without question, that the transformation will drastically change the Harvard undergraduate experience, and the institution itself on a fundamental level. The physical nature of campus has a lot to say about the campus itself...
...administration’s top priorities appears to be constructing laboratory space to house cutting-edge initiatives like the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
...other hand, there is a real need for cord-blood deposits at the 22 public banks that do their best to make stem cells available to anyone who needs them. That's where my wife and I are going to put our child's cord blood. For a list of donation sites, go to marrow.org --With reporting by A. Chris Gajilan...