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Interim College Dean Gray professor of systematic botany Donald H. Pfister was appointed interim dean of Harvard College in early July, succeeding Evelynn M. Hammonds, whose service concluded at the end of June. Pfister has been dean of Harvard Summer …
Issue: September-October 2013
Executive Education, Innovation Lab, Allston Alterations
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced receipt of a $50-million gift to fund a new building on its campus for executive education . At the same time, the University announced that it would convert one of the buildings it owns in Allston—the former …
Three for the Road
Thanks to Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, three current Harvard students will do their research in England next year. Senior Jay A.H. Butler , of Eliot House and Paget, Bermuda, was named that island’s 2006 Rhodes Scholar. The history concentrator plans …
Issue: March-April 2006
For Sciences and Art
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in the throes of a major, multipurpose building boom, as shown in these autumn images. The site of the Laboratory for Interface Science and Engineering Photograph by Jim Harrison The site of the New College Theatre …
Issue: January-February 2006
Harvard Single-Gender Social-Club Rules Rescinded
The University announced Monday that in light of seemingly insuperable legal challenges, it is rescinding its policy on unregulated single-gender social organizations (USGSOs: the undergraduate final clubs, fraternities, and sororities) . The policy was …
“Edifying and Beautiful”
Curators at Houghton Library are bringing a splash of green and other vibrant color to the building’s main lobby this summer with a new exhibition of rare and old botanical illustrations. Though visitors from the public were not able to enter Harvard Yard …
Harvard Portrait: Judith Grant Long
“Like most city planners, I’m a city planner and something else,” says Judith Grant Long, M.D.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’02, RI ’12, associate professor of urban planning at the Graduate School of Design . The “something else” involves sports and finance: once …
Issue: September-October 2013
Poise, in Spite of Everything
“You have to get the eyes right,” says portrait artist Nina Skov Jensen ’25. “You can mess up a lot of other things and it won’t matter, but the eyes have to be right.” That was one of the first lessons Jensen absorbed when she began teaching herself to …
Issue: May-June 2024
When to Arrest Protesters
On the evening of April 30, 2024, the New York Police Department arrested 112 people in and around Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestine protesters occupied the building. In Cambridge, McCormack professor of citizenship and …
Michelle A. Williams Appointed Harvard Public Health Dean
Michelle A. Williams has been appointed dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (SPH), filling the vacancy created when Julio Frenk departed last summer to assume the presidency of the University of Miami. Williams will be familiar to many …
Are Super Responders Special?
As a medical student in the 1980s, Isaac “Zak” Kohane heard stories—from patients, mentors, and colleagues—of nearly miraculous recoveries from cancer. A patient given weeks to live instead survives for years. An experimental drug works exceptionally …
Issue: September-October 2019
“You Need to Move”
Robert Verchick, J.D. ’89, professes environmental law at Loyola University and is a senior fellow in disaster resilience at Tulane—both in New Orleans, providing an up-close-and-personal view of the threats from climate change: rising seas, more powerful …
Issue: July-August 2023
A Year of “Good Progress”
Assessing the academic year now drawing to a close, William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, said today in one of his periodic briefings on the governing boards’ work, “One of the most critical things this year was the first year of our …
A Life with Lycaenids
At the first lab she attended in a course on terrestrial arthropods, Naomi Pierce was expected to dissect a cockroach. Not the familiar kind we find in kitchens, but the Madagascar hissing roach, a blackish-brown insect "the size of a baby's fist," which …
Spaces for Art, People, and Light
This winter, the entire Gund Hall lobby of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) was given over to various depictions, commentaries, and celebrations of the Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which opened in November. Its designer …
Issue: May-June 2012