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...added that the Clark family had already been very generous to the University, citing Joseph Clark Jr.’s service on the Board of Overseers and other work with Harvard, as well as the sale of his Wyoming ranch to fund an endowed professorship...
...days the scientific grapevine had been buzzing with the news that Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist whose disease has put him in a wheelchair, heir to the revered Cambridge professorship once held by Isaac Newton, would be making a big announcement at a conference in Dublin, Ireland. Sure enough, last week before an array of TV cameras and hundreds of colleagues at the ordinarily obscure International Conference of General Relativity and Gravitation, Hawking declared that he had solved what he called "a major problem in theoretical physics." Black holes, he said, do not forever annihilate all traces of what falls...
...gift was earmarked to fund an endowed professorship in Islamic religious studies at the Divinity School...
...also landed a post at the University of Chicago Law School, although he did not pursue a professorship, choosing to focus instead on politics—his first love...
Until recently, such generosity would have been unusual--unwanted even--in Germany. By tradition it was taxpayers, not foundations, who funded university chairs. But Germany is cutting back its spending on higher education, creating a need for charity. So far the technology position is the only privately funded professorship at the school. But at a rival university across town, charitable foundations are funding five professorships, and four more...