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Giant Magellan Milestone
In Tucson's late summer heat , under the steeply raked eastern stands of the University of Arizona Stadium (“Home of the Wildcats”), technicians at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab this past weekend cast the third enormous mirror for the Giant Magellan …
Cryptic Puzzle: “Playground”
Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution "Playground" solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically) Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Stephen Throop – Grover, NC …
Living Large in Tiny Apartments
In the 1960s, Volkswagen became famous for ads featuring tiny pictures of their cars with the slogan, “Think small.” Now architects Eric Bunge, M.Arch. ’96, Mimi Hoang, M.Arch. ’98, and Alphonse Lembo, M.U.P. ’10, have put their own spin on that memorable …
Issue: May-June 2013
Cryptic Puzzle: “Lighten Up”
Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution “Lighten Up” solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically) Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA Joe …
Harvard Divinity School Receives Christian Studies Endowment
Harvard Divinity School (HDS) today announced that artist and activist Susan Shallcross Swartz and her husband, James R. Swartz ’64, have donated $10 million to establish the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies, in support of new …
Designating Dunster
Harvard announced in mid July that Dunster will become the first of its 12 residential undergraduate Houses to be fully renewed under an ambitious, multidecade program . (Renovating the River Houses alone is expected to cost more than $1 billion .) …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard College Admissions Rate Falls to 5.9 Percent
Harvard College announced today that 2,032 applicants had been offered admission to the class of 2016, entering this August—5.9 percent of 34,302 applicants. The admissions rate last year was 6.2 percent (2,158 offers of admission extended to 34,950 …
A. Clayton Spencer Appointed President of Bates
A. Clayton Spencer, vice president for policy since 2005, has been elected the eighth president of Bates College , effective July 1. Spencer has worked in Massachusetts Hall for a decade and a half, serving presidents Neil L. Rudenstine, Lawrence H. …
“Even Higher” Education
Between 2011 and 2036, Harvard’s river-spanning campus in Cambridge and Allston became a magnet for mature professionals. It offered a unique advantage not available online: access to idea exchange and connections across the whole University, including …
Issue: September-October 2011
Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
F rank Hu and Kentucky Fried Chicken arrived in Beijing around the same time. Hu, a recent graduate of Tongji Medical University, in Wuhan, had never seen a restaurant like it. Three-floored, gleaming, and distinctly Western in atmosphere, KFC proved …
Issue: March-April 2020
The Mystery of Smell
In the early weeks of the pandemic, as scientists and physicians scrambled to find the edges of this new, dangerous disease—how it spread from person to person, how it behaved inside the human body, and how they might be able to stop it—one emerging …
Issue: November-December 2021
Under (Green) Wraps
Nominally, Harvard’s official color is crimson. But this summer, a lot of the place went green—with numerous sites swaddled in or fenced off by construction wrapping, Christo-style, during another busy season of renewal, renovation, and repair. The …
Issue: September-October 2019
Lighting the World
During the past few decades, colorful abstractions by Ellen Carey have exemplified the Greek origins of the word photography— pho - s for light, graphis for drawing. “I capture light working with film and chemistry” while mining the materiality of the …
Issue: November-December 2023
Rebuilt?
Last March, Lavietes Pavilion, the home of Harvard basketball, took on an unusual feel . Coaches in sports jackets gave way to construction workers in neon vests, whose boots marked the hardwood where sneakers usually squeaked. The tabletop machine used …
Allston Development Director Departs—Updated
Christopher M. Gordon, who joined the University in 2005 to direct accelerated development of the University’s planned campus growth in Allston, has decided to relinquish his position. President Drew Faust announced in an e-mail today that Gordon, who is …