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Light also serves on the board of the Harvard Management Company, which manages the University’s $34.9 billion endowment. In the late 1970s, Light also took a brief leave of absence from the Business School to serve as the Ford Foundation??s director of investments...
...Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer.” He has also contributed to various anthologies, is regularly featured on National Public Radio, and currently directs Harvard’s Creative Writing Program. In 2006 he was named one of the National Book Foundation??s “5 under 35” gifted young writers, which means that he’s also really young (and seriously good at writing). Oh and did we mention... he used to be a professional skateboarder? FM sat down with this mastermind to talk about...
...life sciences and the number of students who actually do so. This striking pattern of high-school-to-college-major science attrition is a well-documented educational phenomenon; it is certainly not specific to Harvard. A nationwide study of 115,300 Life Sciences undergraduates reported in the National Science Foundation??s Science and Engineering Indicators (2008) found that 51 percent of students entering university intending to major in the life sciences switched out of the life sciences over their college careers. Harvard, with a reduction of around 38 percent according to the Crimson’s figures...
...last Thursday, totalling $6.6 million. Each grant–including those awarded to MIT, Carnegie Mellon, the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force and the Bipartisan Policy Center—has a unique focus. The Harvard grant aims to speed up the development of clean-energy technologies, according to the Foundation??s press release. The Kennedy School group will study the efficacy of past and present U.S. policies intended to encourage clean-energy research, as well as the role government and business in Europe, China, Japan, and India play in the development of energy technology. Andrew Bowman, director...
...University of Oklahoma (OU) study released last week found that minorities are underrepresented at major research universities across the country. The study—based on a survey of the National Science Foundation??s top-100 universities in each of the 15 academic disciplines—also predicted that the gap between minority representation in the general population and in academia will have a direct effect on the thinking and scientific practices of future generations. “We’ve been looking at the diversity in faculties for several years now, originally we were doing this...