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01 Dec 2012
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Recognizing Volunteers and Donors

International Reach Class of 1992, Section G For its 20th Reunion, the Class of 1992 reached 74 percent participation, surpassing the previous record by 4 percentage points and raising more than $7 million. Among the fundraising volunteers responsible for this... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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The Sweet Spot

Dining on campus wouldn’t be the same without the daily confections created by the bakery staff based in the Kresge Hall kitchen. Here, Viennese executive pastry chef Andreas Horava and pastry cook Mary Beth Miskin put the finishing touches on sweets for the lunch... View Details

Keywords: Pastry; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2011
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Harvard Endowment Grows to $32 Billion

The Harvard endowment grew by 21.4 percent to $32 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, up $4.4 billion from the year before, according to the annual report by Harvard Management Company. Every asset class advanced, led by a 34.6 percent return on domestic stocks.... View Details

Keywords: Endowment

01 Aug 2001
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George C. Lodge

In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished Service honoree. In 1961, at the invitation of Dean... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Stanley F. Teele; Ezra F. Vogel; John W. Rosenblum

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

difference in their communities,” says Raman. “What is really exciting is that alumni engagement helped shape and inform new research on crucial areas of importance to the US economy.” Laila Worrell (MBA 1998) and Ravi Chanmugam (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade

20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

clinically meaningful information about ALS from "big data." Dozens of research teams are currently competing for another prize, the $1M Avi Kremer ALS Treatment Prize4Life, which is looking for a treatment that leads to a 25% extension... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2008
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Alumni Books

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch tells the story of his climb to... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

By Invitation Only: How We Built Gilt and Changed the Way Millions Shop by Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (both MBA 2004) (Portfolio) The founders of Gilt Groupe reveal how they built the web’s most famous fusion of high tech and high fashion. Sample sales... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue

intersections and pass the information along to local governments to encourage better traffic management. They review 108 hang-ups, study best practices of emergency medicine in other countries, evaluate the level of care available at... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Information; Information; Information; Information

2022
Conference Presentation

Towards the Unification and Robustness of Post hoc Explanation Methods

By: Sushant Agarwal, Shahin Jabbari, Chirag Agarwal, Sohini Upadhyay, Steven Wu and Himabindu Lakkaraju

As machine learning black boxes are increasingly being deployed in critical domains such as healthcare and criminal justice, there has been a growing emphasis on developing techniques for explaining these black boxes in a post hoc manner. In this work, we analyze two... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning

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