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Especially helpful to Rogers was co-captain Andre Akpan, Harvard’s all-time leading scorer and a recent draft pick of the Colorado Rapids...
...global terrorism remind us of the fragility of peace in our time. Natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami demonstrate the abiding power of Mother Nature, even as we burn fossil fuels at rates that put us at grave risk of irreversible climate change. And our recent pullback from an economic abyss shows us the insecurity of our global economic system, which has raised many boats but still leaves over one billion people tragically living on less than...
...addition, the recent rise in unrestricted giving has been a powerful engine for FAS during the financial storm. These generous gifts made an enormous difference in our ability to maintain our financial aid programs, continue essential services for our students, and launch new initiatives based on the most promising ideas of our faculty...
...vibrancy or preclude new efforts to advance our mission. Next year will begin with a faculty projected to be slightly larger in size than in the past. The incoming graduate-student class will also be slightly larger than the last, and it boasts the highest admissions yield in recent history. Similarly, the yield in the College will exceed last year’s mark of 76 percent. The College and FAS continue to attract the world’s most outstanding faculty and students...
...while many students, professors, and alumni praise Light for his leadership during the recent economic downturn, several long-time faculty members note that Light’s agenda closely followed that of his predecessor. Some of the school’s most prominent initiatives, they say, grew out of preliminary work undertaken during the previous administration under Kim B. Clark ’74, whom he replaced first as interim dean in 2005 before assuming the permanent position...