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...important to acknowledge that no single weather event can be definitively caused by climate change - and it's possible that the current inferno in Australia might have been as intense and deadly even without the warming of the past several decades. Police are beginning to suspect that many of the fires may have been deliberately set, and the sheer increase in the number of homes built in fire-danger zones in southern Australia today puts more people in harm's way, raising the potential death toll. Still, heat waves and drought set the table for wildfires, and temperatures...
...recognize that arts practice and performance contribute to knowledge and learning as much as any other intellectual inquiry,” she said.Faust acknowledged that the Task Force report “has not appeared at the most propitious of times,” given the effects of a current financial downturn that has constricted University coffers. Harvard’s endowment fell 22 percent—or roughly $8 billion—in the four months prior to Nov. 1, and is projected to fall 30 percent by the end of the fiscal year on June 30.While the Task...
Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Tamara E. Rogers ’74 cited economic uncertainties in declining to give any current schedule for the campaign, marking a departure from this fall when she said the campaign would have a tentative 2011 launch date...
Harvard’s plans to launch a long-delayed capital campaign are once again in limbo, even though alumni donations have held largely steady through the current financial crisis, the University’s chief fundraiser suggested in an interview Friday...
...coming months. In an effort to “re-balance and re-engineer the organization,” reductions will include investment professionals as well as “back office” and support personnel, according to University spokesman John D. Longbrake. HMC—which currently employs more than 200 people—has faced heightened scrutiny in recent months as University officials prepare for a projected 30 percent decline in the endowment for the year ending June 30. Harvard’s endowment, valued at almost $37 billion last June, was reported to have lost over...