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Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School since 2003, will be nominated to serve as Solicitor General by President-elect Barack Obama.
Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington died on December 24.
The University moved quickly to sell new bond issues, to refund existing short-term debt, to increase financial flexibility, and as it turns out to extricate itself from expensive interest-rate swap agreements.
John P. Holdren, an expert in energy, global warming, and nuclear weapons, will be nominated as science adviser by President-elect Barack Obama.
Harvard Management Company has issued its annual report on the compensation of its highest-earning investment professionals, likely a sensitive subject when their past performance has strongly exceeded the market but attention is now focused on the sharp decline in endowment-asset values.
Yale disclosed the impact of the financial markets on its endowment, and outlined a series of phased budget-cutting measures.
A new interdisciplinary decision-science lab will host experiments from psychology, economics, and beyond.
Harvard’s government and medical schools are pursuing cost reductions of up to 10 percent in next year’s budget.
The University-wide task force’s report recommends new degree programs, courses, and spaces for art production.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has outlined large cost cuts, even after freezing salaries and slashing the number of faculty searches it will authorize.
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