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Eleven months after the Albert A. List Foundation gave $1 million to the Divinity school for a professorship in Jewish studies, officials have appointed four scholars to fill the position--the first endowed Jewish studies professorship at a Christian seminary or divinity school in the United States ----for the next four years...
...International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has pledged $1 million to endow a professorship in computer science. The pledge is as large a corporate grant as the University's $250 million capital fund drive has received...
...growing student interest in computers, sharp cutbacks in federal funding for the applied sciences, and the recent quantitative reasoning computer requirement have combined to make the professorship necessary. Thomas M. Reardon, the University's director of development, said yesterday...
...contributes about $60 million a year to support universities in fields related to the company's business. IBM spokesman Margaret Anderson said yesterday, adding that the Harvard professorship will emphasize the "practical side" of computer science...
...professorship is named in honor of Frank Stanton, president of CBS from 1946-1971 and member of the Board of Overseers. Stanton has been a prominent defender of First Amendment rights for journalists...