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Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers granted approval

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:27:50 -0400

After more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Harvard and Children's Hospital Boston have been cleared to begin experiments using Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to create disease-specific stem cell lines in an effort to develop treatments for a wide range of now-incurable conditions afflicting tens of millions of people.

As far as is known, this decision marks the beginning of the first noncommercial effort in the United States to use human embryonic stem cells in a series of experiments whose principle has already been proven in animals.

The work is being entirely supported with private funds because of the federal restrictions on human embryonic stem cell work.

Harvard proposes to transform Engineering Division into a school

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:27:30 -0400

Harvard University announced May 23, 2006, a proposal to transform its Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) into the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS.

The re-naming, which will be presented for formal approval in the autumn, would have the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences function as a "school within a school." It would maintain close academic connections with other parts of FAS and educate undergraduates within Harvard College, as it does today.

Geography center launched

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:27:25 -0400

Those of us who remember grammar-school geography lessons as a tedious affair involving a pink and green window shade map and a chalky wooden pointer would probably never guess that, in fact, it is estimated that 80 percent of all data contains a spatial component. That point was made clearly and colorfully at the launch of the new Center for Geographical Analysis (CGA), held May 5, 2006 at the Tsai Auditorium in the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) South building on Cambridge Street.

Green Campus Initiative looks at global environment

50443248 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:25:31 -0400

The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) invites University faculty, staff, students, and alumni to its upcoming conference, titled "Harvard Vision 2020: A Bridge to Campus Sustainability," to contribute their thoughts on how Harvard can address the demands of environmental sustainability in its future campus design, development, and operations.

Green Campus contest puts wind in energy's sails

50443248 — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:44:59 -0400

The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is giving Harvard students and staff the chance to turn their energy conservation habits - or their new resolutions to conserve - into clean wind power.
The EmPOWER Harvard campaign seeks to get as many people as possible to sign an online pledge form before midnight Nov. 23 - the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

Task Forces on Women release findings

50443248 — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:04:42 -0400

Harvard's Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering, appointed three months ago to address concerns of women faculty and women in science throughout the University, Monday (May 16) released reports calling for large-scale changes in the way the University recruits faculty and supports women and underrepresented minorities pursuing academic careers.