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Harvard looks to reduce professor ranks
Date: 11/20/2009 11:55:55 PM
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— The dean of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors to help balance a $110 million deficit. Dean Michael Smith told The Harvard Crimson student newspaper the cuts could come ...
Cambridge-based Ligon Discovery Raises $1M in Seed Funding
Date: 11/19/2009 6:56:28 PM
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Harvard University Spinout is Pursuing Drugs for Intractable Disease Targets CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Ligon Discovery, Inc., which uses proprietary small molecule microarray technology to find drugs against high-value targets, today ...
No hospital savings seen with electronic records
Date: 11/20/2009 10:58:39 PM
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hospitals have done little to rein in skyrocketing healthcare costs, Harvard University researchers said in ... administrative efficiency," said Himmelstein, who oversees clinical computing at Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts. "Claims that health ...
Mass. immigrant tuition bill to get new push
Date: 11/16/2009 1:52:13 PM
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In this Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 photo, Mario Rodas of Chelsea, Mass., poses at one of the gates to Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. As an undocumented Guatemalan-born immigrant in 2005, Rodas would have had to pay out-of-state ...
Livingston Taylor to give ‘Voices’ symposium Friday in Chatham
Date: 11/20/2009 9:25:36 PM
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Taylor was an Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., for five years, and now serves in an advisory capacity there. For information about Stanley Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, visit www.stanleychurch.
"Root Beer Summit" to discuss race relations set for Tuesday at Grand ...
Date: 11/16/2009 4:51:10 PM
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The event, one of 11 statewide chats, is styled after President Barack Obama's beer summit at the White House in the wake of unrest between Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crawley.
Tufts Says Wealthy College Endowments Should Take Less Risk
Date: 11/19/2009 12:01:17 PM
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in public policy from Harvard University, also in Cambridge. Almost 9,400 full-time students attend Tufts. It was founded in 1852 and is ranked 27th in U.S. News & World Report’s annual listing of national universities. Tuition, fees and room and ...
N.J. latest stop in health care tour
Date: 11/14/2009 11:55:53 PM
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The California congresswoman has been traveling across the country -- appearing before students at Harvard University in Cambridge on Friday -- to promote the reform that has been a cornerstone of President Obama's administration. Members of the ...
Cone leads Weymouth swimmers into State finals
Date: 11/19/2009 3:00:14 PM
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... Saturday at the MIT pool in Cambridge. The top finishers from Sectionals advance to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s State Championship, which will be held Nov. 28 at the Blodgett Pool on the Harvard University campus ...
Biotech startup Ligon Discovery attracts $1M in VC funds
Date: 11/19/2009 2:45:55 PM
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Ligon was founded by Patrick Kleyn, Angela Koehler and Benjamin Ebert, with technology licensed from Harvard University and MIT’s Broad Institute. Christian Bailey, general partner at Cambridge-based incTank, will join Ligon’s board of directors.
Schroder at Harvard ceremony for hero he portrayed
Date: 11/16/2009 3:46:45 PM
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(AP) — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Actor Rick Schroder says he was happy to accept an invitation to a Veterans Day ceremony at Harvard University honoring 16 alumni who were Medal of Honor recipients. After all, Schroder portrayed one of them, Lt. Col ...
Building a more versatile laser
Date: 11/16/2009 2:49:29 PM
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Harvard University scientists Federico Capasso and Nanfang Yu , in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have been working with an international team to develop a laser that offers multibeam emission.
Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold ‘Em Can Teach Traders to Fold
Date: 11/20/2009 4:57:45 AM
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Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics , says ... The Right Game Adams, who has taught at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, each spring since 2003, said disciplined ...
AP POLL: Tax the rich to pay for health bill
Date: 11/17/2009 4:14:12 PM
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Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Pelosi endorsed U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass., Friday as he battles to catch Attorney General Martha Coakley in the race to succeed the ...
Warren Winning Means No Sale If You Can’t Explain It (Update1)
Date: 11/19/2009 8:58:09 PM
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We need a new model: If you can’t explain it, you can’t sell it,” said Warren, 60, a Harvard University law professor who is head of the Congressional ... On the faculty of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Harvard since 1992, she is the Leo ...
Fashion king Ralph Lauren and wife establish Yale professorship
Date: 11/14/2009 11:55:53 PM
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He has taught at Cambridge University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Ohio State University and The Cooper Union, and is also the author of many books on his subject. Gwathmey, who graduated from the School of Architecture in 1962, lived ...
AP NewsBreak: Mass. senator driven home by cops
Date: 11/16/2009 5:34:07 PM
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... a minivan in Cambridge. The driver of the minivan, one of four occupants, was taken to the hospital complaining of neck and back pain, according to the accident report. Witnesses said the SUV fled the scene through a Harvard University driveway ...
Khazei takes gamble, calls for Obama to bring home troops
Date: 11/17/2009 11:20:42 AM
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CAMBRIDGE - US Senate candidate Alan Khazei called on ... minute speech that drew a standing ovation from 75 students, aides, and supporters in a wood-paneled room at Harvard University. “We’ve lost our way, strayed from our mission, and now we ...
ECC's mock trial team shows it's the real thing
Date: 11/16/2009 9:41:40 AM
(11/16/2009)
... and Villanova universities at Harvard University's fourth annual Crimson Classic Tournament recently. The tournament, a prestigious collegiate mock trial competition, was held earlier this month on the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Mass. "
Cascades of beauty: Smith College's fall mum show features spectacular ...
Date: 11/14/2009 11:55:53 PM
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Another free talk on the lotus flower will be given by Xiaofei Tian, a professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, in Room 106 of Seelye Hall on Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m. The lotus is an important symbol in both Chinese and Buddhist cultures.