Harvard Gets $100 Million for Sciences and Math: Daily News Roundup
October 15, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News
$100M Gift to Harvard Will Support Sciences and Math (Harvard Gazette). Plus, see a Chronicle article detailing how Harvard raised $9.6 billion in its just wrapped-up campaign.
Salesforce Chief Benioff and Twitter’s CEO Dorsey Battle on Twitter Over San Francisco Ballot Measure on Homelessness (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sloan Kettering Researchers Correct the Record by Revealing Company Ties (New York Times and ProPublica)
Hong Kong Movie Star Chow Yun-fat Says He Will Donate Most of His $714 Million Fortune to Charity (W Magazine)
Museums Forced to Reassess Saudi Ties Amid Uproar Over Journalist’s Fate (New York Times)
Ideas and Innovation
New StoryCorps Program Looks to Bridge Widening Political Divide (Current)
Eyebeam Center Invites Artists to Delve into Journalism (New York Times)
People in Philanthropy
Interview: Leana Wen, Incoming President of Planned Parenthood, Says She’s Ready for a Fight (CityLab)
How Noorain Khan, of the Ford Foundation, Spends Her Sundays (New York Times)
The Arts
Should Arts Organizations Be More Like Airlines? (Chicago Tribune)
