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...conservative John M. Olin Foundation, for instance, allocated more than $12 million in grants to universities last year, says executive director James Pierson. Although Harvard was not the largest recipient of those awards, the University still claimed its fair share...
Looking at the foundation's current interests, Pierson says the organization concentrates on economics, law and foreign affairs. Some of its other recent projects have included an Olin chair in legal studies fo Judge Robert H. Bork, a failed Reagan nominee for the Supreme Court, and a grant to the conservative Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Foundation to study child care issues...
...thought is we like to fund things that would not really happen otherwise," says James Pierson, executive director of the Olin Foundation, which supports a number of projects at Harvard. Some foundations, he says, will make money available in a particular field, hoping to move scholarship into areas that reflect the organization's goals...
...didn't want to force anybody into a match," Pierson said. "We give the students the phone numbers and then it's up to the students to contact the professor...
While most of the senior honors candidates have found advisors, Pierson said some students who signed up late for theses were still searching for advisors...