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...perhaps fitting that Summers, who used his office as a global bully pulpit to promote stem cell research—and discovered the pulpit’s perils when he speak provocatively about women in science—delivered his swansong on the opposite bank of the Charles...
Summers may have garnered the greatest reaction from the audience when he referenced the University’s advancements in stem cell research. Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute was founded under Summers’ watch...
Calling the federal ban against stem cell research “misguided,” Summers said that Harvard needed to make even more investments in this area...
...view of Harvard as the Kremlin on the Charles. To those ends, Summers began to mobilize Harvard’s considerable resources. The University is primed to become the life sciences epicenter of the world with planned facilities in Allston leading the way. Just this week, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, formed under Summers’ leadership, announced its intention to trailblaze human embryo cloning research with the intention of creating disease- and patient-specific stem cell lines. With respect to globalization, Summers has helped effect considerable cultural change at Harvard. After years in which the conventional wisdom was that...
...does not take much reading of our history, however, to stem the tide of nostalgia. Seen in a global context, our College began as a small, regional effort, in a cultural backwater of Europe, in the waning years of the Great Ming dynasty. Harvard became a significant American university by emulating German structures and practices in the 19th century. It assumed, with others, a position of national leadership by the middle of the 20th century. Only in the last half-century, and particularly over the course of the past several decades, has our external reputation set us as a place...