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...once a powerful moral prohibition against the trade. It doesn't help that in 2007 CITES gave South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe permission to sell 110 tons of stockpiled ivory to China and Japan. The E.U. allowed that sale on the condition that there would be a nine-year moratorium on future stockpile sales, but CITES applied that ban only to those four countries - leaving Tanzania and Zambia open to request their own sales. "We keep moving the goalposts," says Steven Broad, the executive director of TRAFFIC International, which monitors wildlife trade. (See pictures of wildlife and ecosystems endangered...
Although the group’s largest fundraiser each year is Relay for Life, Harvard Cancer Society president Kevin W. Chi ’10 noted the importance of connecting to undergraduates in different ways. “It’s hard to engage college students by saying that there’s a lecture series given by researchers,” said Chi. “You have to work with your audience and catch their attention with something a little more fun. That opens doors for talking about what we really do and what this money...
...Economics Department will reinstate junior seminars for the next academic year, due in part to an increase in the number of visiting professors, department leaders said yesterday...
...junior seminar program had been cut for the 2009 to 2010 academic year as a result of cuts in the budget portioned for visiting faculty members in the economics department. The downsizing had forced the department to use its professors to teach larger lecture courses...
...fall, the department will boast four and a half full-time equivalent positions for teaching visitors—including visiting professors of Australian and Canadian studies—in comparison to the one and half FTEs in the department this year, according to Economics Department Chair John Y. Campbell...