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...woman whose shoulders bear the burden of steering higher education’s grandest endowment through the most debilitating financial crisis in a half-century, Jane L. Mendillo cuts a decidedly unassuming figure.She speaks with measured confidence but betrays no ostentation. Her office, situated on the 16th floor of the Boston Federal Reserve Building, is adorned with little more than a few family photographs, three flat-panel monitors sitting atop her desk, and a comfortable view of Boston Harbor.But beneath her unobtrusive exterior, Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company, harbors a wealth of investment knowledge. She commands the respect...
...risk of slighting those whose interests go unmentioned because of the brevity of the space available here, I would like to highlight two university priorities: global health and energy and environment. What is it that makes these areas of scholarship and teaching priorities even in the current climate? First, they have real world significance. Global health (which also includes domestic health issues, if only because microbes do not need passports) and issues of energy and environment confront challenges that any great research university must address. The emergence of pandemics, the development of new drugs, vaccines, and devices for neglected diseases...
...professorship—named after former English professor Francis O. Matthiessen, whose homosexuality was an open secret during his time at Harvard—marks a step forward in the larger movement seeking to legitimize fields like LGBT studies, according to Timothy P. McCarthy, a lecturer in public policy and in history and literature...
...oriented reform initiatives, As the Law School’s class day speaker, she placed the final seal on her deanship and urged the graduating class to seize the opportunities that have arisen from the economic recession. In her speech, Kagan offered career advice to a Law School class whose job searches were hit hard by the troubles on Wall Street—where many prestigious law firms have traditionally generated business—and whose attentions have increasingly turned to public service. “I know some of you might have thought in the last year...
...don’t hesitate to make decisions,” “be a team player and a team builder,” and “don’t take yourself too seriously, but do take your work seriously.” Petraeus—whose remarks were part of a ceremony following the commissioning of four seniors into the Army and three into the Marine Corps—was hailed as a “soldier scholar” by University President Drew G. Faust, who spoke before Petraeus. Faust also gave the moniker...