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Bookish
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
Bullish on Private Colleges
In our July-August issue, Cizik professor of business administration Clayton M. Christensen and his former student, Michael B. Horn, of the Innosight Institute, made the case that the intersection of disruptive technologies with outmoded or failed …
Issue: November-December 2011
Imagine That!
A woman repairing an automobile—and showing us the tops of her stockings! This is not a “True Woman,” domestic, docile, dependent on a man. No, she is the “New Woman,” freed from whalebone corsets and stays, spirited, athletic, demanding a right to …
Issue: March-April 2007
Money Matters
An updated, second edition of Managing Harvard’s Resources —with reports from the University’s treasurer, James F. Rothenberg, and chief financial officer, Elizabeth Mora, vice president for finance; simplified financial statements; and details on …
Issue: March-April 2007
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 …
Point of No Return
Soon after the Harvard community was upended and scattered around the world by the COVID-19 evacuation, I called my two roommates. Pre-move-out, whenever I felt like my world was falling apart, I could always depend on returning to our room in Adams. The …
Issue: July-August 2020
Elsewhere
Since 2001, College students’ international experiences during their Harvard years—formal study abroad, research, work or public service, internships—have evolved from the “unusual” to the “almost routine.” So reported Gutman professor of Latin American …
Issue: January-February 2006
Picturing Jazz
MASS MoCA ’s exhibition Black Stars: Writing in the Dark invites visitors to reflect on the experience of making—and listening to—music. The installation offers works by the pianist, composer, and visual artist Jason Moran, who also serves as artistic …
Issue: July-August 2024
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) …
Five Questions with Ashton Keen
Potter Ashton Keen is an artist-in-residence at Harvard’s ceramics program during this school year, and she spoke about her artistic evolution and learning to work with clay in “ A Potter’s Practice .” Harvard Magazine asked Keen, who recently earned her …
HAA News
Share and Share Alike The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has taken a big step toward adding shared interest groups (SIGs) to the list of alumni organizations it serves. Earlier this year, the HAA board approved a policy enabling the association to …
Issue: May-June 2004
Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel
David Baker ’84, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington, has been named a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating entirely new proteins. In 2003, using a software platform he had invented called Rosetta, Baker designed a …
The Classes
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Issue: July-August 2015
Design Engineering Debuts
How can aging and elderly populations be accommodated in today’s cities? What must coastal areas do to adapt to rising sea levels? Could the petroleum-based transportation system be shifted to natural-gas fueling—and how? The faculties of Harvard’s …
Pamelyn Bennett
When Pamelyn Bennett began working at the National Airport Marriott Hotel, in Washington, D.C., she checked in a foreign family whom she remembers as “very brusque—they just wanted their room.” When Bennett, now an event operations coordinator at Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2024