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...billion.After having gained extensive experience and knowledge of portfolio management during her first decade and a half at HMC, Mendillo departed in 2002 to take the top investment job at Wellesley, where she managed the school’s billion-dollar endowment. There, she implemented an investment strategy similar to the one used at Harvard, diversifying asset exposure and repositioning the portfolio for stronger long-term performance.But managing Wellesley’s assets likely never represented the full extent of Mendillo’s ambitions, and former Wellesley President Diana C. Walsh says she understood that Mendillo?...
...studies.English concentrators—too often inundated with large lecture classes—have been asking for smaller classes for a long time, according to New, the English professor.In the renewed “Astrophysics” concentration (“renamed from Astronomy and Astrophysics”), a similar movement for common-ground courses is taking place. Concentrators will be required to take the newly created classes Astrophysics 16: “Stellar and Planetary Astronomy” and Astrophysics 17: “Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy” in the hopes that the courses will foster excitement...
...pushing for a uniform set of policies that would apply to Harvard’s 17 affiliated hospitals and institutes, the students’ plans hit a snag that has plagued similar efforts for years...
...studies. As recently as 2003, Women’s Studies was refashioned to become the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, which allows students to choose between the tracks of LGBT studies or women’s studies. Though universities across the country have instituted similar programs and coursework in the field, the Matthiessen professorship is the first actual endowed position...
...such, their role is to “never let the military or society forget the big picture.” Class of 1959 speaker Darnell M. Whitt ’59 also described Petraeus as a “soldier scholar,” adding that Faust is similar to Petraeus in that she is “a scholar who has written a lot about soldiers.” Faust prefaced her comments with the announcement that Harvard will join the GI Bill Yellow Ribbon Education Program next fall, which will provide substantial financial assistance...