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Yale Chief Investment Officer Swensen Diagnosed With Cancer

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David Swensen, the long-serving head of Yale University’s endowment who helped rewrite how colleges invest their money, has been diagnosed with cancer.

Swensen, 58, is undergoing treatment and taking temporary leave, Tom Conroy, a spokesman for New Haven, Connecticut-based Yale, said today in an e-mail. Conroy declined to disclose the type of cancer.