Word: endowment
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While all of the 40 endowed professorships havenot yet been funded, Latin American Studies is nowtwo professorships richer. David Rockefeller '36and Monique and Philip Lehner each donated $3.5million to endow two chairs affiliated with theDavid Rockefeller Center for Latin AmericanStudies--one of the school's many cross-schoolinternational programs...
...that end, $20 million of Ballmer and Gates' gifts were used for the construction of the center with the other $5 million of their contribution used to support research and endow a Faculty chair. MIT recently announced its own Gates gift, a $20 million gift to its Laboratory of Computer Science...
...constructed a reputation for "The Phantom Menace" that it cannot possibly live up to. The trilogy wasn't great because it was popular or because it made a lot of money; ticket sales could make "Titanic" the highest grossing movie of all time, and that still wouldn't endow the film with any sort of "greatness." "Star Wars" is legendary because of its unforgettable characters, its intricate plot, and those one-liners that anyone who has ever heard of pop culture inevitably has memorized. I can't wait for the next chapter...
Radcliffe should have put its roughly $200 million into escrow to endow 100 female professorships, 30 into Women's Studies, the other 70 in departments like economics, computer science, physics and history. In those departments, women professors are woefully underrepresented, because Harvard still does not in all areas hire according to "availability rate"--the percentage of doctorates awarded to women nationally. In those departments, underrepresentation of women is not a supply-side but a demand side problem...
...remaining $5 million was used to support research and endow a Faculty chair...