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Harvard Files Institutional Master Plan with Boston
After more than two years of intensive planning and community discussions, the University has filed a 10-year Institutional Master Plan (IMP) with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), detailing 1.4 million square feet of projects that administrators …
Vulnerable Sculpture
Sculpture breaks free of the frames that confine paintings and drawings. Released into the wider world, sculptures may even inhabit the fourth dimension via movement in time, as mobiles do. Sarah Sze’s vulnerable works take the mirroring of life even …
Issue: September-October 2006
Curiosities: Animating a New Species at the Peabody Essex Museum
PVC tubing and zip ties form the essential “bones” of Dutch artist Theo Jansen’s otherworldy yet mobile strandbeests (“beach animals”), eight of which are on display at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) starting September 19. Included is his latest and …
Issue: September-October 2015
Not-So-Free Parking
It’s an all-too-familiar nightmare. After a smooth drive on a freeway, you pull into the city to run an errand, grab lunch, or drop your child off at school. But all the curb spots are taken, and the garage costs $25 an hour. So, you circle the block, …
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 …
Karts Get Some Respect
Stephan Wilkinson ’58, automotive editor at Popular Science , is said to be a longtime expert on the way men entertain themselves when no one is telling them what to do. In Man and Machine ( Lyons Press, $16.95 , paper) he goes on entertainingly and …
Issue: March-April 2006
Curl Up with the Cloud-gatherer
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." This spring Harvard University Press publishes the five-hundredth volume in its Loeb Classical Library and, to celebrate that landmark, also brings forth a sampler of the library’s greatest …
Issue: March-April 2006
Harvard College Names New Heads of Houses
Danoff dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana today announced five new sets of faculty deans, the term for heads of the undergraduate Houses that the College adopted in 2016 . Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy, and Winthrop will each have new leadership, …
Freud's Guesswork on Dreams
One of Sigmund Freud’s great complaints about his mistreatment in life was that although he won a literary award for his famous book The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), it never received a scientific award. A century later, his peers’ judgment has been …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard Interim Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Force Reports
Interim president Alan M. Garber today announced the preliminary recommendations from the task forces on combatting antisemitism and anti-Muslim, -Arab, and -Palestinian bias he created in January . In a message to the community, he wrote about the task …
Arsenic and Old Lead
The Arnold Arboretum anticipated closing a deal last December to sell the Case Estates, its 62.5-acre property (complete with barn and two other structures) in Weston, Massachusetts, to the town of Weston for $22.5 million. But first the town “decided …
Issue: September-October 2007
Nicco Mele
Nicco Mele owes a lot to the Internet. The new director of the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy grew up across Asia and Africa—the son of two foreign-service officers—and first connected with American culture by …
Issue: November-December 2017
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 …
Sunil Amrith
“Picture the Bay of Bengal as an expanse of tropical water: still and blue in the calm of the January winter, or raging and turbid with silt at the peak of the summer rains,” writes historian Sunil Amrith in Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of …
Issue: September-October 2017
As Supreme Court Takes Up Gun Ban, Greenhouse Is Watching
Did the framers of the Bill of Rights intend the "right to bear arms" to apply only for the purpose of forming a militia, or more widely, for purposes such as self-defense? Is the possibility that American citizens will need to rise up against a …