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Harvard Global Institute Grant Supports Climate-Change Research in China
The newly formed Harvard Global Institute (HGI) has announced that its first grant will go to China 2030/2050 (based at the Harvard Center Shanghai; see below)—$3.75 million for an interdisciplinary research project focused on climate change, …
Shielding the Goal
“It’s such a crazy position,” says Katie Shields ’06, who has tended goal for the Harvard women’s soccer team since her freshman year. “All summer [of 2005] I worked with goalkeepers at a soccer camp, and they are the craziest collection of athletes you …
Issue: September-October 2005
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
A Lover of All Things English
Even as a young literature student at Harvard, Erin Moore ’98 already yearned to be on the other side of the Atlantic, where the authors she studied lived, breathed, and wrote. In junior year, long before the College institutionalized study-abroad …
Issue: September-October 2015
A Soft Bot That Jumps
For most people , the word “robot” conjures up the image of a lumbering metallic machine. Now, researchers report that they can fabricate robots with the exact opposite features—soft, pliant, and mobile—using 3-D printing. Today in Science, researchers at …
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 …
From the Soil Up
This year marks one hundred years since Beatrix Farrand designed the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard’s 16-acre research institution in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and garden and landscape studies tucked in the northern …
Harvard Square Blooms Again
After two quiet years, Harvard Square comes alive with Commencement, hosting ceremonies and celebrations from Monday, May 23, until Friday, June 3. Happily, there are plenty of new shops, restaurants, and diversions in the Square, too—so what better time …
Issue: May-June 2022
On Not Going It Alone
How powerful is the United States , and how should it relate to the rest of the world? Is America a new version of the Roman Empire? These questions are increasingly debated around the world in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. Some neoconservatives, …
Issue: July-August 2006
Beyond the Transcript
Last year, Harvard's senior admissions officers urged applicants to the College-- and their parents--to relax a little, lest the rising generation of undergraduates pursue achievement so relentlessly that they end up burning out prematurely ("Harvard to …
Issue: November-December 2001
Olives Revisited
Since its opening in 1989, Olives' high-end Mediterranean cuisine has made a big splash in Boston. The restaurant has now spun off a chain of upscale outposts in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., and Aspen. Recently we visited the flagship establishment to …
“Disasters Sift out the Resilient”
In his last Commencement address as dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Nitin Nohria, who steps down later this year after 10-plus years at the helm , urged graduates to remember their gratitude, even during the profound disruptions and …
Harvard Endowment Increases 5.7 Percent to $39.2 Billion
Highlights for fiscal 2018: •The endowment’s value was $39.2 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2018—an increase of $2.1 billion (5.7 percent) from $37.1 billion a year earlier . The gains in the year just ended bring the value of …
“A More Perfect Heaven”
By his thirties , Nicolaus Copernicus had developed a theory that would turn the universe inside out, but for three decades, he kept his ideas almost entirely to himself. As a young man, he had formulated a mathematical model that placed the sun, rather …
HAA Award Winners
Six alumni have received the Harvard Alumni Association’s 2023 HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University. Michael R. Alderete ’79, of San Francisco, a longtime alumni interviewer, has co-chaired the Harvard College schools and …
Issue: November-December 2023