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This winter, with the help of a grant from the Mellon Foundation, Newman plans to create an interdisciplinary cluster of social scientists dedicated to the study of recent trends in immigration in the U.S. and other countries...
...Mellon Foundation and Hewlett Foundation will provide 11 million dollars in grants to support the new online OpenCourseWare (OCW) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the university announced June...
...MIT’s pledge to share its entire curriculum, and to place its entire institution behind this ambitious effort, could transform the way in which content is made available to all who want access to it,” commented William G. Bowen, president of the Mellon Foundation...
President Rudenstine announces that he will rejoin the Mellon Foundation where he was formally executive director before becoming Harvard’s president. Rudenstine will lead an advisory group studying digital storage and distribution...
Rudenstine arrived at Harvard fresh off a stint as an executive vice president at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Prior to that, he had served as a dean and provost at Princeton. The adjustment to Harvard wasn’t easy. Whereas Princeton was a small environment, heavily focused on undergraduates and without many graduate students. Harvard, with its nine graduate schools, was more complicated. There were more players. And true to Gomes’ words, the University president was often the one with the least power...