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O ne casualty of the 2008-2009 financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession was the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ physical Courses of Instruction catalog: it and the Student Handbook , Q Guide , and other publications got the ax as of April 1, 2009, …
Issue: January-February 2023
Tighter Times
Harvard is not immune to the vicissitudes of the economy. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, the University's operations produced a financial surplus of $70.4 million. That is a comfortable cushion, particularly when compared to Dartmouth and …
Issue: January-February 2003
Allston Performing Arts Center Planned
On November 30, Harvard filed plans with the City of Boston to construct a new performing arts center at 175 North Harvard St. in Allston. Ever since the University first announced plans to expand across the Charles River, the arts have been envisioned as …
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
In Joplin, Missouri, a group of women that includes Harvard alumnae is creating a new college of dental medicine, helping to bridge a gap that seldom makes headlines: the scarcity of oral health care in rural America. Across the country, the number of …
Space Architect
Constance Adams ’86 was interviewing for a job in Houston in 1995 when she decided to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center. “We were touring the site,” she remembers, “and a calm voice was explaining that one day, we would be going to Mars. Of course I sent …
Issue: January-February 2011
"Mr. Clean Vegetables John"
Expelled from Harvard in 1969 for participating in the University Hall takeover, John Berlow ’71 traveled the world, living in Israel, Canada, and West Africa. But he did not go to Vietnam until 2000. “In ’69 I was an angry young man,” he says. “I am not …
Issue: May-June 2010
COVID-19 Common Sense
A November 17 news briefing by Harvard and other Boston area experts on the current state of COVID-19 in the United States began with a “weather report:” Case data no longer reflect the intensity of the pandemic, said Harvard Medical School (HMS) …
Three Cheers
We warmly welcome a bumper crop of new colleagues who joined Harvard Magazine this autumn. Natalie A. Vinard—an experienced print and digital media and marketing manager and strategist—became publisher on November 6. A veteran of Boston Globe Media for …
Issue: January-February 2024
Football 2018: Dartmouth 24, Harvard 17
On Saturday at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Harvard football team played the role of measuring stick for the second week in a row—and the game played out similarly. After digging themselves into a hole, the Crimson stiffened and rallied …
Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds Steps Down
This updated, expanded report was filed May 28 at 5:00 p.m. , succeeding a brief account earlier today. Harvard College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds is stepping down at the end of the academic year. According to the news release, posted at the Harvard Public …
Oldest and First
Donning his Class of ’44 cap that he got at his 25th reunion fifty years ago—a signature wear, loved ones say—Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, led an all-alumni parade past the John Harvard Statue and into Tercentenary Theatre for today’s …
Admissions, through the Ages
Eight years out of Yale—after stints as a U.S. Marine platoon leader and a teacher—Dwight D. Miller joined the Harvard College admissions office in July 1967. That was before the merger with Radcliffe; before the Supreme Court first ruled on affirmative …
Issue: September-October 2019
In Wine We Trust
Like children waiting with open bags at the door on Halloween, a dozen adults crowded around a table at the Skinner auction house wine preview in Boston, proffering empty goblets for a sip from the coveted bottles for sale. With great ceremony, Philip …
Issue: November-December 2007
The SIGnboard
If you seek fellow alumni who share your interests, remember that the Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 Shared Interest Groups (SIGs)—“any collection of Harvard University alumni who actively engage in communicating and/or gathering …
Issue: January-February 2009
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For Santiago's Poor, Housing with Dignity
Santiago, Chile —A young boy plays unsupervised in front of a house that bears a small wooden sign, handwritten in marker: Se venden helados (ice cream for sale). Behind this rather ordinary scene is an extraordinary story with deep Harvard ties. In this …
Issue: January-February 2009