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...remarkable.” While she has been at Harvard in this position for less than a year—she took up the post on July 1, right before markets began plummeting—Mendillo has no shortage of experience managing the University’s endowment. She spent 15 years at HMC working on nearly every asset class before embarking on her Wellesley hiatus, where she built the school’s investment office and re-engineered its portfolio. “Wellesley’s in a very good position thanks to Jane’s work...
...very important to have resources to make immediate interventions that will have good outcomes in the long-term,” Faust says, citing the need for greater flexibility in diverting funds. Unrestricted funds can be used at the discretion of University leaders, and current use gifts can be spent immediately—unlike most endowment funds, which are designated for a specific purpose and have limits on yearly spending.Even more than other donations, such gifts represent a vote of confidence in the administration, since donors are in effect relinquishing the control they normally exercise over their contributions...
...Once you appreciate that point, you can understand that there has been an evolutionary adaptation taking advantage of cooked food.” At the same time, easily digestible food frees the body from the task of chewing. Chimpanzees spend half their day chewing their food, energy not spent in more constructive activities, said Daniel E. Lieberman, a fellow anthropology professor and chair of department’s biological anthropology wing. The book counters earlier hypotheses about human evolution, such as the theory that human evolution stemmed from eating meat, either raw or cooked. The transition to cooking may have...
When we maintain that thinking is craftwork, we reflexively maintain that craftwork is thinking. I spent eighty hours of my Senior Week cleaning dorms, an undertaking that prompted more than a few people to ask whether I was out of my mind. I suspect this question would have been less frequently asked had I spent those eighty hours peering at nucleotides or penning sonnets. And yet for all my sterling-grade education, I cannot see a meaningful difference between any of these things...
This semester, the UC took a series of steps to reconnect with the student body. With a new communications committee, we have spent a semester trying to inform students about how we work, and how they can get involved. Students came together to improve UC funding, provide new student services, work towards an ethnic studies secondary field, advocate for student social space, and protest budget cuts. When it was announced that the campus would close for five weeks in January next year, we had over 100 students ask how they could respond or change the decision...