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Federal Update: President Obama Delivers His Last State of the Union Address

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Last night, President Barack Obama delivered his last State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Traditionally, the State of the Union provides the President with a primetime, national audience to present his legislative agenda and tout...

Federal Update: President Obama Releases FY17 Budget Request

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The broad strokes of the President’s State of the Union address received their fine print today with the release of the White House’s fiscal year 2017 budget request. The Obama Administration’s last budget comes with the freedom from the political...

Federal Update: Congress Breaks for Summer Recess

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The House and Senate adjourn today for party conventions and the August recess, and we are reminded that presidential election years are rarely productive times on Capitol Hill. Despite a concerted, good-faith effort and even some movement on legislation...

Federal Update: Congress Funds Government through December 9

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Last night Congress sent a package to the President’s desk that includes a stopgap continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through December 9, avoiding a pre-election shutdown and delaying remaining final decisions on FY17 spending until...

Federal Update: As Lame Duck Gavels In, New Administration Takes Shape

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Transition is the word of the day in Washington, as leaders and officials, old and new, converge on the city to complete the work of the 114 th Congress and begin planning for the 115 th Congress and the Trump Administration. On the Hill Having put...

Federal Update: Lame Duck Heads toward Second CR; House Passes Cures Bill

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The lame-duck session of the 114 th Congress resumed its work this week after the Thanksgiving holiday, notably on two main issues of University interest—the House’s passage of the 21 st Century Cures bill to authorize future supplemental funding for NIH...

4D-printed structure changes shape when placed in water

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A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has evolved their microscale 3-D printing technology to the fourth...

Alzheimer’s insights in single cells

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Building on research reported last year, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have succeeded in identifying the neurons that secrete the substance responsible for the plaques that build up in the brains of...

Bionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel

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Daniel Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, and Pamela Silver, the Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, have co-created a system that uses solar energy...

Federal Update: President Trump Outlines Priorities

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President Donald Trump capped his first 40 days in office with a primetime address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, where he outlined a broad vision for addressing his priorities. Despite a shaky start to the term, the Trump Administration...

Federal Update: Trump Administration FY18 "America First" Spending Outline Proposes Deep Cuts, Fundamental Changes

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While the higher education community has harbored concerns about how the new Administration’s expressed priorities of aggressive budget reductions coupled with significant increases to Defense department spending might impact programs essential to...

Federal Update: Congress Tees Up Busy April

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Following last week’s abrupt withdrawal of the GOP healthcare bill, Congressional Republicans huddled this week to regroup and refocus on the agenda ahead. In the near term, the Senate will turn its focus next week to the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch...