Word: hugheses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The committee had courted the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Thomas R. Cech, head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as a viable outside contender. The group expected to spend the end of January and February contemplating the choice between Cech and Faust, but their hopes of a relaxed deliberation came...
Cech drew support from two heavy weights of higher education: Bowen, the former Princeton chief, and former University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray, who chaired the Howard Hughes board of trustees. As a former member of the Harvard Corporation, Gray was one of the key backers of Larry Summers...
Still, after speaking with Cech, Bok could not answer a key question facing the committee: would Cech be willing and able to commit himself to serious fundraising efforts? At Howard Hughes, Cech was blessed with a $16 billion endowment and few demands for heavy-duty fundraising.
It's not just ExxonMobil. Oil-field-services provider Baker Hughes keeps a monthly tally of how many rigs are active around the world, and the rig count peaked at 6,227 in December 1981. In April of this year it was just 2,836. But ExxonMobil is the most...
Rafael T. Quintanar ’10, another member of the Harvard Figure Skating Club, said he spoke to Hughes at last year’s “Evening with Champions” fundraiser and thought that Hughes wouldn’t bring up her Olympic accomplishments.