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2008-09 Rhodes Scholars Named

November 24, 2008 • Breaking News

The winners include two Harvard seniors and one doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education.

Dean Outlines FAS’s Financial Straits

November 19, 2008 • Breaking News

Dean Michael D. Smith outlined for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences the severe challenges—as much as a $200-million shortfall in revenue—looming in the next year as the endowment declines in value.

Endowment Issues: Each School’s Exposure

November 12, 2008 • Breaking News

Each Harvard unit is exposed to declining endowment values, but to different degrees; the schools’ exposures are detailed, using University data, and FAS’s dean writes to his faculty about an unprecedented financial squeeze.

“Harvard Is Not Invulnerable” to Shocks: Faust’s Sober Financial Message

November 10, 2008 • Breaking News

President Drew Faust today e-mailed a letter to faculty, students, and staff, highlighting the “extraordinary turbulence still roiling the world’s financial markets and the broader economy.”

2 University Endowments: The Gathering Storm

November 7, 2008 • Breaking News

A look at Harvard’s reliance on endowment income to fund academic operations; the news from other academic institutions; and the composition of the endowment

Day-After Thoughts: “Words Have Made a Comeback”

November 6, 2008 • Breaking News

Reflections from Humanities Center scholar-in-residence Kiku Adatto on the roles of images and rhetoric in the 2008 campaign and its media coverage

Lawyers’ Perspective on a “Time of Turmoil”

October 24, 2008 • Breaking News

As part of the celebrations for Harvard Law School’s (HLS) capital campaign, panelists discussed “Corporate Leadership in a Time of Turmoil” in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall on the afternoon of October 23.

“Noble Exertions”: Law and Public Service

October 24, 2008 • Breaking News

As celebrants gathered in a huge tent on Holmes Field on October 23 to toast Harvard Law School’s (HLS) record-setting capital campaign, President Drew Faust used the occasion to address the public-service aspects of legal practice and education…

Gore Speaks on Sustainability

October 23, 2008 • Breaking News

Former vice president Al Gore ’69, LL.D. ’94, will be at Harvard on October 22 for a University-wide celebration of sustainability…

Pulitzer Gift of Art Works and $45 Million Boosts Harvard Art Museum

October 17, 2008 • Breaking News

Culminating her lifelong devotion to art collecting, connoisseurship, and scholarship—and a matching engagement with the University—Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M.

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