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The donation, which was set to fund the creation of the Ellison Institute for World Health, would have been the largest in Harvard’s history.
Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy Christopher Murray, who was expected to head the new institute, told Bloomberg this week that Ellison had stopped communicating with the University in November of last year—months before Summers’ presidency fell into critical condition.
The underlying cause of Ellison’s change of heart was not immediately clear, but one source close to Mass. Hall said that Ellison had expressed disenchantment with Murray in private meetings on his yacht, and that he was more enthusiastic about having Summers oversee the project than to...
The Financial Times first reported on June 21 that Harvard had been left in a lurch by Ellison. The newspaper reported that the new global health institute had delayed plans to hire 130 employees by next summer and had dismissed three senior staff members that had already been hired. Murray...
Five decades after he started campaigning for a “New Boston,” the lawyer-developer turned philanthropist Jerome L. Rappaport ’47 continued his effort Wednesday with a $12.35 million donation from his charitable foundation to Harvard’s Rappaport Institute for Greater...