more than $2.6 billion, surpassing the goal of $2.1 billion. With the funds, Harvard increased student financial aid, supported new educational and research programs, and allowed for the creation of new buildings, as well as renovation of existing spaces. Rudenstine's tenure at Harvard also oversaw an endowment growth of $4.7 billion in 1991 to more than $15 billion. Rudenstine was a strong supporter of university-based research during his presidency as he helped to institute the Science Coalition in the mid-1990s and oversaw the university's federally sponsored research support grow to about $320 million in 2000 from $200 million in 1991. During his tenure, Rudenstine worked extensively to bring together Harvard’s diverse schools in a way that prompted more effective collaboration. To cultivate inter-school unity, Rudenstine developed many interdisciplinary programs such as the Mind, Brain and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative, the University Committee on the Environment, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. He reorganized the university’s administrative structure so that the school deans worked also as a consultative cabinet, and he recreated the provost position to oversee the interfaculty initiatives created during his presidency. Rudenstine’s leadership oversaw the establishment of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which merged Radcliffe College with Harvard. Its creation was successful and ambitious as it created a community of faculty and fellows across a wide span of the arts and sciences, as well as a specific commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. At the time the Dean of Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Drew Faust said of Rudenstine, “He made it possible and continues to offer me and the Institute support in ways too varied to enumerate. The Institute would not exist without him”. Rudenstine was a staunch advocate of universities viewing race and ethnicity as one of many factors in the admissions process and advocated extensively on the importance of a diverse student body. In April 2000 during the thirtieth-anniversary celebration of the Department of Afro-American Studies, he stated, “Harvard will continue to take ethnicity and race into account, along with many other factors, as it admits students”.Rudenstine also was committed to providing increased financial aid and scholarships to students from a range of financial circumstances. Student scholarships and fellowship grants increased from $59 million in 1991 to $132 million in 2000, a year before his departure from the presidency. He was known as a very mild-mannered president, supporting the