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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
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
Standing Out, United
Briana Acosta, M.P.H. ’23, is used to sticking out. As “one of a handful” of low-income students on financial aid at her private high school in Houston and one of its only students of color, Acosta said she struggled with “really feeling out of place”—a …
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 …
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
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
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 …
Centennial Medalists
The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate studies. It is the …
Issue: July-August 2024
John Harvard, Reader
T ourists adore John Harvard, the statue, for their Yard photo ops. Development officers revere the man for his cash-giving precedent. Now, Richard Dey ’73, who was poetry editor for The Harvard Advocate , has performed the seemingly impossible act of …
Issue: May-June 2023
Designing Good Lives
MASS Design’s domestic initiatives address the basic elements of a good life: housing, health, food, and sustainability. Most are led from MASS Design’s Boston office, the firm’s operational hub. Though he served as lead architect on The Embrace memorial, …
Issue: May-June 2023
Seeking Climate Solutions
The University has entered a new phase of engagement with the global climate-change problem, as the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability funded its first substantial grants to five interdisciplinary, cross-school research clusters. The …
Issue: May-June 2023
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 …
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 …