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Lowell House Renovations: An Inside Look
“They used to sleep on Lowell; now they[’re] jealous of our renovations,” croons Eric Tarlin ’21 on Lowell House’s 2019 Housing Day music video. Based on “Congratulations,” a swaggering, autotune-heavy hit by rapper Post Malone, “Renovations” …
The New Republican Mavericks of Cambridge
It has been a very disheartening few months,” says Declan Garvey ’17, president of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC). A year ago, the members of the oldest College Republicans chapter in the United States were gearing up for what promised to be a bright …
Double Vision
Having experienced their own twenty-fifth reunion last year, twin brothers Mark and Steve O'Donnell ('76 and '76, respectively) offer these visions, transcribed while they murmured in a restless dream state on undersized beds expressly borrowed from a …
Issue: May-June 2002
In Africa, Food vs. Climate?
Though scientists have long known that Africa is a major contributor to rising levels of atmospheric methane, the primary culprit has been a mystery: emissions from the typical sources, such as wetlands and landfills, couldn’t account for the total …
Issue: January-February 2025
Hot Canvases
Every day when he goes to work at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, sees an empty frame on the wall. It used to hold Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert —one of 13 paintings stolen from the Gardner in the early-morning hours …
Issue: March-April 2012
Harvard Women’s Ice Hockey Investigation Finds No Evidence of Hazing Culture
Harvard Athletics Director Erin McDermott addressed the findings of an independent investigation into alleged abuse on the women's ice hockey team and announced forthcoming departmental changes in an email sent to members of the Harvard Athletics …
Beyond the Budget
"It was a very simple year." So Elizabeth C. Huidekoper, vice president for finance, characterizes Harvard's getting and spending for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999. The annual Financial Report to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, released …
Where the Bones Are
Documentary accounts of the historic past seldom capture the flavor of daily life hundreds of years ago. But broken pipestems, clay marbles, and chicken bones--mute castoffs--can say quite a lot about this aspect of a culture when interpreted by a …
Harvard Sexual Assault Report Calls for Training, Culture Change
A University task force charged with making recommendations for the prevention of sexual assault at Harvard issued its final report today. It calls for changing the campus culture (including such fixtures as single-sex undergraduate final clubs) and for …
What They Earned
As a nonprofit organization, Harvard is required to submit Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service each year. The fiscal year 2018 documents for the University and for the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which invests the endowment, were released …
Hypervelocity Stars
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a crowded, busy neighborhood: clusters upon clusters of pulsating young stars, giant clouds of gas, dying stars exploding, and, in the middle of it all, a massive black hole. So powerful is the gravitational pull of …
Issue: November-December 2010
Alumnus Moungi Bawendi Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov. The trio were honored for “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” crystals so small that they are …
From Corporate Lawyer to Waffle Entrepreneur
By the time Emily Cole Groden, J.D. ’15, was 10 years old, she knew what she wanted to do for the rest of her life: practice corporate law. She didn’t know exactly what that entailed, but she was resolute in her decision. “My dad was a corporate lawyer, …
The Urban Jobs Crisis
Editor’s note: Background information on the charts accompanying this article (Figures 1 , 2 , and 3 ) appears in the text below. In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity …
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Issue: May-June 2013
Performing for the President
On Thursday evening an “Arts Prelude” to President Claudine Gay’s official installation shook Sanders Theatre with a whirlwind of energetic, and sometimes stirringly intimate, performances—from ballet to Haitian compas ( a méringue dance music) to lyric …