Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million gift to the Kennedy School by a Hong Kong real-estate magnate will fund a new scholarship program for Chinese students, Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye said yesterday...
...Kung's gift will allow ten students from China who are in the middle of their college careers to study public policy at the Kennedy School each year, beginning in the fall...
...makes art. "It is the overproduction of synaptic connections followed by their loss that leads to patterns in the brain," says neuroscientist William Greenough of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Potential for greatness may be encoded in the genes, but whether that potential is realized as a gift for mathematics, say, or a brilliant criminal mind depends on patterns etched by experience in those critical early years...
...department budget funds primarily staff and faculty salaries and the usual assortment of paper clips and staples," said Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K. Ford. "This is the largest unrestricted gift the department has received and it is an entirely new resource...
...Harvard has long been known for its work on the subtle, yet powerful, influence of Celtic literature and culture," said Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles in the press release. "The Cullinanes' wonderful gift will provide our students with a direct experience of the origins of that influence...