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Keep Africa on Agenda, Rice Advises
Although the U.S. government has momentous and urgent problems to confront—the reverberating shock waves of a global financial crisis; continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—it should not let relations with Africa slip from its list of priorities, …
A Living Treasure in Boston
With 281 acres of thriving trees, flowers, and bushes from around the globe, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum is so much more than a walk in the park. The historic oasis was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace, and today still …
Issue: July-August 2020
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
“The Ingenuity of an Architect”
At 11 years old, growing up in Detroit, Kimberly Dowdell had an epiphany. She remembers walking downtown one day in the early 1990s amid abandoned buildings, graffiti, and broken windows. “People were living on the streets, people suffering in one way or …
Issue: July-August 2024
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
Cambridge 02138
(Coach) Murphy Time Harvard Magazine does a grave disservice glorifying football with a cover story on Tim Murphy ( “Murphy Time,” November-December 2015, page 35). With overwhelming medical evidence that football causes chronic brain damage, how can …
Issue: January-February 2016
Hip-Hop Art and French Innovators
The Museum of Fine Arts reopened for in-person visits this fall, and is celebrating its 150 th anniversary with three distinct shows. The major exhibition, “Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation” (October 18-May 16) , gathers more than …
Issue: November-December 2020
Health Benefits to Cost 3.8 Percent More
After several years of significant increases in employee healthcare spending, Harvard’s overall healthcare costs will increase 3.8 percent in 2018 (down from last year’s 7 percent increase, and 7.3 percent the previous year). Employees’ monthly premiums …
“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
Harvard and the Cult of Robert E. Lee
The new year has arrived, which means the Sons of Confederate Veterans will soon march down Main Street here in Lexington, Virginia, to celebrate the January birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Two days later, a much larger Lexington crowd …
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
Developing a Diverse Faculty
“Harvard is at the beginning of a very long journey,” writes senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds in the first annual report issued by her office (published June 13; see the new “Faculty Affairs” website, …
Issue: September-October 2006
The Roman Empire’s Cosmopolitan Frontier
At its peak , the Roman Empire stretched from North Africa to northern Britain and was home to perhaps a quarter of the world’s population. The early Empire’s well-documented center in Rome, a vibrant hub of trade and communication, drew an ethnically …
At Last, a Sweep
On Friday evening , an unusual sight greeted fans at Lavietes Pavilion: the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball national championship trophy was on display in the lobby, thanks to a promotion that is rotating the prize to one school in every conference in advance …