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...permanent president to assuage donor uneasiness. Campaigns are the University’s most powerful tool for raising large sums of money for capital expenditures at the University. The most recent capital campaign, which ended in 1999, raised $2.6 billion. “As at most not-for-profit organizations, the very largest gifts are generally made when there is a senior leader in place,” writes Donella Rapier, the University’s vice president for alumni affairs and development, in an e-mail. “During periods of transition donors typically don?...
...active student leader, Elena held top positions in several clubs and organizations, including one large campus group and a non-profit on-campus service organization...
...inspection process. Among many other safety measures, HUDS employees working in the kitchen have ready access to two different kinds of heavy-duty vinyl gloves (cotton lined and unlined) that are designed to protect them when working with high temperature machines. The Need for BalanceAs a tax-exempt, non-profit institution, Harvard has a responsibility to manage its financial resources prudently. Our tuition-paying students and their families, our donors and research sponsors, and our host communities expect the University to act responsibly with regard to its finances and commitments.From year to year, the University must balance its budget...
...Harvard would not enter as a commercial competitor in the booming field of genetic engineering, he appealed to some time-honored precepts. Learning should be an end in itself, not a way to earn vast fortunes. Teachers should be teaching, searching, thinking, and not competing with each other for profit and fame. In a world as brim full of the commercial and the exploitative as ours, Harvard should serve as a sanctuary of something higher. And though we are not convinced these were the only reasons for rejecting the commercial enterprise, we applaud his decision. We don?...
...intervention that will slow the disease,” Brown said. “Obviously the real hope is a cure. Whether that is possible, I don’t know.”This summer, Kremer will be working on the launch of Avi Therapeutics, a for-profit biotech company that will try to commercialize academic research in the ALS field, according to Kremer. With these two companies, Kremer said he will continue to fight. “I want to save every ALS patient who lives today,” he said.LIVING AND LAUGHINGKremer has devoted the past...