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...time when interdisciplinary and campus-wide collaboration has been identified as a priority, Brandt, appointed last week as the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will likely find his greatest asset to be his capacity to humor and unite the far-flung, autonomous, and occasionally disparate elements of a complex University community...
...Brandt’s ambitious University-wide outreach will likely be aided by a set of widely praised speaking skills that have carried him through high-pressure situations in the past...
...Healthcare Policy Barbara J. McNeil to organize feedback from Harvard about the grant process, according to Associate Provost for Science Kathleen M. Buckley. Hyman and McNeil did not return requests for an interview. Tabak said the comments raised concerns about the scoring system for awarding grants, which currently permits wide discrepancies between individual reviewers. He added that grant applications sometimes require excessive detail about research procedures, which may overshadow the project’s potential scientific impact. Hoping to nurture new scientists, the committee proposed funding more projects undertaken by younger investigators who have never before received a grant...
...conservationists say, a policy to fish Europe out of business. "Mocking scientific advice has become standard practice in the decisions made by the European fisheries ministers," says World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Fisheries Policy Officer Carol Phua...
...survival of stocks comes in conflict with sustaining the livelihoods of Europe's fishermen. Although the fishing community has seen its own numbers shrink drastically in recent years, its efficiency has improved dramatically thanks to innovations like sonar, trawler freezers, and driftnets up to 1.5 miles (2.5km) wide. The result has been a vacuuming of fish across the seas and a collapse of key stocks...