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...University Center for Ethics and the Professions, one of several cross-faculty programs within Harvard, has received a $12 million bequest from the estate of the late Lester Kissel...
...money will create the Lester Kissel Presidential Fund for Ethics, as well as the smaller Lester Kissel Endowment in Ethics and Values fund. The bequest will be officially announced Thursday...
Until the Kissel bequest two weeks ago, none of the center's fellowships had a permanent source of funding...
...especially applaud Mr. Kissel's commitment to stimulating and sustaining future discussions across all the professions and between the academy and the public," acting center director Professor Martha Minow said in a statement...
Though a prominent lawyer in New York City, Kissel was also an avid scholar of Hindu philosophy. His studies of human morals inspired an interest in ethics, eventually leading to his support for the creation of an ethics program at Harvard. It was former University President Derek C. Bok's idea to fund professors teaching ethics and to encourage instruction among the teaching community that Kissel found his cause...