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Governing Harvard: A Faculty View

At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on September 27, its dean, William C. Kirby, said, “We begin this academic year having...

Gender Initiatives Gain

The campus discussion about faculty diversity—particularly the academic development and careers of women—that was launched last spring...

Baker Library, Renewed

Baker Library at the Business School reopened officially on September 19 after a two-year makeover. The new facility was designed by Robert A.M...

In Praise of Giraffes

John A. Graham ’64’s conflict-resolution work has taken him from apartheid-torn South Africa to meetings in Geneva, Switzerland...

Cinema Veritas

In the Carpenter Center theater last May, a seminar-size class in “Filming Science” is scattered among the seats, waiting for an...

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Sculptural Forms

She Changes, by artist Janet Echelman ’87, is a giant multilayered mesh net suspended above a traffic circle next to a beachside promenade...

University Housing on the Rise

More than 300 units of new housing (500 beds), primarily for graduate students but some for faculty and staff, are being built on two sites in...

Diversity Director

Evelynn M. Hammonds has become Harvard’s first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity. She will direct implementation...

Frances Glessner Lee

To a forensic investigator, trivial details can reveal transgressive acts. Consider the card Frances Glessner Lee carried in her later years...

Hot Off the Press!

The University has printed 11,000 new alumni directories, most of which were scheduled to be shipped in mid August. The hardback volume lists...

Off the Shelf

Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence, by Conrad Edick Wright ’72 (University of Massachusetts Press...