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BOSTON — Harvard University launched a $6.5 billion capital campaign Saturday that, if successful, would be the largest fundraising effort in the history of higher education.
The school said the campaign had broad goals spanning all its schools and would fund research into neuroscience, stem cell science and low-cost energy for the developing world.
It also aims to expand the school's global presence, including through an ongoing project to develop a center in Shanghai for conferences and research.
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust said the campaign will help the school meet the world's increasingly complex and pressing needs.
"We will meet these challenges, and in doing so, we will reaffirm what makes Harvard — and universities in general — such essential and irreplaceable contributors to the pursuit of knowledge and the welfare," Faust said in a press release.
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