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...SEAS is slated to have a major part in the new Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, funded by a $125 million dollar donation and touted as a part of the Allston science complex that would strengthen the University’s nascent engineering efforts...
...problem, says S&P's chief economist David Wyss, who looks at GDP and employment and other broad indicators of the economy, is that S&P earnings could end up about 50% lower, or $63 per share. Stocks analyst are typically more optimistic than economists, but only by a few bucks, says Howard Silverblatt, an index analyst at S&P. "Traditionally, when you get these big discrepancies, it is the economists who end up being a lot closer to reality," says Silverblatt...
Bioengineering at Harvard is about to take off. In late September, Hansjörg Wyss donated $125 million to Harvard to found the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Topping the $100 million for international programs and the arts that Harvard received last April from David Rockefeller ’36, this gift is the largest donation in Harvard’s long—and wealthy—history. The Harvard community should be thankful both for Wyss’ generous donation and for the research it will fund. As a combined project between the School of Engineering...
...million gift will allow for such work and technology development at a time when federal financial support for science research is frozen, according to Medical School and SEAS professor Donald Ingber, who will be the founding director of the Wyss Institute...
...Ingber said that the creation of the Wyss Institute evidences the strongest commitment to bioengineering that he has seen in his 25 years at Harvard...