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...transition away from the school-based approach that has historically dominated development efforts toward fundraising for University-wide priorities. This shift is set to remain a priority of Mass. Hall despite the changing of the guard. Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Tamara E. Rogers has announced the creation of a University Development Office team dedicated to soliciting large donations for projects that cross schools. “I would say that certainly University development is transitioning to being able to serve a wider cut of the schools and serving the University more broadly,” Rogers said...
...past two years, Gruosi-Scheufele has been focusing on the development of the family owned brand's high-jewelry collection, or what she affectionately calls the "real rocks." "There's not much real creation in the market at that level, and so we wanted to fill the gap," she explains. Ever since Gruosi-Scheufele joined the company, which her father bought in 1963 from Paul-Andre Chopard, a descendant of the founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard, she has been looking for ways to expand the brand beyond its watchmaking roots. In 1976 she came up with the concept of Happy Diamonds...
...numbers. Gospel music, with its themes of hope, strength and redemption, became their only legal form of protest and their only means of escape. "We sang to keep going," says Lucas Bok, the choir's musical director. "Singing was the only way to express yourself." That need spurred the creation of hundreds of gospel choirs in Soweto - the massive talent pool from which Mulovhedzi drew his recruits...
...sense no interest in having this committee treated as anything other than outlined above,” referring to the body’s status as a non-standing committee. Last spring, then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 called for the creation of the review body, and in January, Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam announced the names of the faculty members on the committee. But Pfister has said the group is on a “little hiatus.” Sundquist said that the committee’s first scheduled...
...Engineering is going to be part of the liberal arts of the future,” says Venky, noting that Harvard recently announced the creation of a new engineering track that will focus on creating “Renaissance engineers.” “What we want to have as our focus for the undergraduates is the broadly educated person, who’s comfortable in communications, who understands the societal issues. So if they’re working in some fancy new cell form, they also know the social implications of what they...