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“Crossing Boundaries”
From her very first messages about the new institute, Faust emphasized “Radcliffe’s potential to create interest and engagement across the University.” She realized that potential in a variety of ways, not all of them widely known...
President Faust?
This initial report contains background on Faust’s Harvard service to date...
Allston: Harvard's 50-Year Plan
Ten million square feet of new buildings, as many as 12,000 new jobs, and many billions of dollars: the numbers alone suggest...
General Education Gains
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has further refined its proposal for overhauling undergraduates' general education, and appears headed toward completing a sweeping revision...
Winter Wellness
In recent years, University Marshal Jacqueline O’Neill and her daughter, Leigh, have spent part of the week between Christmas and New...
Palace Indignities
Alexis Gregory ’57 is a collector of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, a member of the Harvard University Art Museums Collections Committee...
Industrial Lives
Professor Donald Davenport of the Harvard Business School hoped to teach the incipient captains of industry in his classroom, who tended to look...
Increasingly Electronic Libraries
From 1998 through 2005, University library holdings increased by 1.62 million volumes—11.6 percent. But during the same period, the number...
Ultimate islander Philip Conkling
There are almost 5,000 islands off the coast of Maine, most large enough only for a few tern or osprey nests, but some the size of a small city...
by Casey N. Cep
Erin O'Shea
“I have a personality that’s like, if I’m going to do something, it’s going to be done well, period,” says Erin...
Part History, Part Literature
In 1906, Professor Barrett Wendell ’77 created a program in history and literature for Harvard undergraduates. In a later speech to the...
by Casey N. Cep
Ken’s Story
A “rapidly developing revolution in cancer treatment” has prompted David G. Nathan, M.D., president emeritus of Dana-Farber Cancer...