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...what it aims to do. But already it has helped save at least 700,000 lives in poor countries through its investments in vaccinations. In the U.S., its library project has brought computers and Internet access to 11,000 libraries. And it has sponsored the biggest privately funded scholarship program in history, sending 9,048 high-achieving minority students to college. It is the largest foundation in the world, with an endowment of $29 billion. Each year it spends almost the same amount as the World Health Organization (WHO). In public health in particular, to which the foundation devotes...
...which four scholars shall be hired under this gift. Another concern is how Saudi gifts to other academic departments across the country—understandably increasing during the post-9/11 charm offensive in recent years—may have changed the tenor of those departments away from scholarship concerns and towards pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli activism. This has been especially true at Columbia, where the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department is notably prejudiced, and where the establishment of the Edward Said Chair of Arab Studies was steeped in allegations of everything from furtive donors...
Malick graduated Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. He spent several years at Oxford’s Magdalen College, but dropped out after a clash with his advisor over the contrasting worldviews of Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein...
...Before coming to Harvard in the fall of 2001, Brown spent a year first studying engineering on scholarship at the University of Chile and then working as Winnie the Pooh at Disneyworld...
...generous gift to Harvard,” said University President Lawrence H. Summers in a statement. “This program will enable us to recruit additional faculty of the highest caliber, adding to our strong team of professors who are focusing on this important area of scholarship.” The Saudi businessman and philanthropist, who is the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company in Riyadh, has donated $19 million to the Southeast Asia tsunami relief effort and, in an unrelated act, also plans to fund the construction of 10,000 housing units for poor Saudi Arabian families. According...