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Endowment Value Declines 29.5% as Investment Return Is Negative 27.3%
… Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported today that the University’s endowment was valued at $26.0 billion as of June 30—29.5 percent less than the record $36.9 billion … Report The loss on endowment investments was not a surprise. As HMC president and CEO Jane L. Mendillo noted in her …
Brevia
… Cash Conservation Crimson Style The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative aims both to attract … housing one’s parents during the hideously expensive week of Commencement festivities. Science Summer Camp The … a pilot Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) this summer, from June 19 through August 25, following …
Issue: March-April 2006
Vita: John Usher Monro
… In the spring of 1967, John U. Monro ’34 made national … befuddled Harvard colleagues—by resigning as dean of the College and moving to Miles , a cash-strapped, …
Issue: May-June 2013
Harvard Reports Top Administrators’ and Investment Managers’ Pay
… 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard … reported as a nontaxable benefit. The one surprise, perhaps, is the $699,590 compensation (plus benefits) …
Education as a Civil Right
… In November , I had the distinct privilege of addressing some 600 Harvard alumni at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The event—the …
Issue: January-February 2018
Relieving Pain
… “When we treat pain, the first thing we do is try to eliminate the source of pain, say, by relieving compression on a nerve,” says professor of anesthesiology Carol A. Warfield. “When this …
Issue: November-December 2005
Harvard Endowment Decreases by $1.9 Billion on Negative Investment Returns
… Performance highlights for fiscal 2016: •The endowment’s value stood at $35.7 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2016, a decrease of $1.9 … grants do not cover the full cost of the research enterprise. Increasingly, endowments play a significant role in …
Yesterday’s News
… 1927 The editors produce excerpts from the hundred-year-old freshman diary of Frederick West Holland, A.B. 1831, including the … to organize student-conducted business enterprises…” Other students form a credit club. 1967 The Law …
Issue: September-October 2022
He Missed Out on Woodstock
… Winerip '74 devotes his latest "Generation B" column in the Sunday New York Times to his experience of missing Woodstock, and the associated cultural upheaval, by a few years . "The Sprit of '69, Circa 1972," published on August 16, points out that …
Lights. Action. Asthma.
… Medical histories can be rather dry affairs: a doctor at a desk interviews a patient … could take a few weeks to do the job. Under the guidance of instructor in pediatrics Michael Rich, M.D. '91, patients … reports and what he saw on their tapes, but he was surprised by the magnitude of the difference. The tapes …
Photographs from Commencement Week 2023
… assignment for Harvard Magazine , Jim Harrison has captured the emotions, traditions, and historic moments at Harvard … to near-normalcy, after the pandemic years—the large cohort of 2023 graduates (augmented by those who deferred admission or took leaves during the prior period of social isolation and online instruction) celebrated with …
A Dean for All Weathers
… When he announced on February 11 that he would relinquish the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) deanship this June, Jeremy R. … to be A-." So the second offer of the deanship—a surprise, in light of his earlier reluctance—appeared as an …
Issue: May-June 2002
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 The Alumni Bulletin welcomes news of the founding of the Harvard University Press as an “eminently appropriate …
Issue: January-February 2023
A Cancer Pioneer
… The New York Times put a very human face on the hunt for … route to a cancer cure—targeted therapy, the subject of Flaherty's research, or immunotherapy, which seeks to … system against cancer. The series examines the difficulty of balancing a desire for quick action to help sick patients …
New Leaders
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new …
Issue: July-August 2006