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On a Wednesday afternoon in April, members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company rehearsed Esplanade in their sunny, Lower East Side studio. Eight dancers leapt and crawled, paired up and drifted apart, and walked, ran, and slid across the floor—pedestrian …
Issue: July-August 2018
Beyond the Core
The Task Force on General Education (TFGE), commissioned last spring, has issued a preliminary report to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), for discussion this fall and possible enactment next spring. The draft, circulated October 3, suggests a …
“Alternative” Placebos
Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning,” they’d tell their difficult patients. In the 1950s, when the randomized controlled trial was developed as a procedure, …
Issue: September-October 2006
Can Infrastructure Remedy Social Ills?
At a time when Americans are divided by politics and algorithms, public spaces have the potential to bring people together. Libraries and town squares can be drab and uninspiring, or they can transform atomized strangers into neighbors, and those …
Issue: July-August 2022
Honor Roll
Philip Fisher Howard Georgi Rose Licoln / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Margo I. Seltzer Lino Pertile Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Daniel Gilbert Caroline M. Hoxby Jon Chase / Harvard News …
Issue: July-August 2005
A Composed Response
One morning in the spring of 2015, the composer Jonathan Bailey Holland, Ph.D. ’00, was riding the bus to Boston’s Berklee College of Music (now the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he’s chair of composition, contemporary music, and core studies). …
Issue: January-February 2018
Arts First
“The artist is always working with mingled gladness and disappointment towards an ideal he never attains. It is his struggle toward that ideal which makes his life a happy one.” — President Charles W. Eliot It’s been quite a year …
Issue: March-April 2017
Governance Reform and Shared Value
How can business help mend the broken U.S. political system—and even step up to fulfill the social needs government fails to meet? Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter, perhaps the best-known scholar of corporate strategy, turned his attention …
Edwin Binney, 3rd
Few realize that the sale of Binney & Smith Crayola crayons, those staples of so many childhoods, helped fund one of the largest physical donations of art in the history of Houghton Library’s Harvard Theatre Collection (HTC). The 1986 bequest of 10,000 …
Issue: January-February 2021
Designing for “Changing Climates”
Tourists visiting the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in Paris might be seeking a religious or aesthetic experience. But they often leave feeling woozy for other reasons. In the increasingly hot Paris summers, visitors queueing outside are doubly baked by …
Brevia
Robert E. Rubin U.S. Treasury Coming Attraction The Harvard Alumni Association's guest speaker on Commencement afternoon will be former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60, earlier of Goldman, Sachs and now chairman of the ex-ecutive …
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Delivering brief presentations on subjects from infrastructural aesthetics to aliens, seven Harvard Horizons scholars shared their research to an enthusiastic Sanders Theater crowd. The students had been selected in what Graduate School of Arts and …
University People
Doctor in the House Harvey V. Fineberg, Harvard’s provost, began a medical leave and underwent surgery December 16 for what was described as an early-stage cancer of the prostate. Fineberg, himself an M.D. (’71, as well as an A.B. ’67, M.P.P. ’72, and …
Issue: March-April 2000
Harvard Endowment Increases 4.3 Percent to $40.9 Billion
Highlights for fiscal 2019: •The endowment’s value was $40.9 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2019—an increase of $1.7 billion (4.3 percent) from $39.2 billion a year earlier . •In a year when other institutions’ endowments are …
One-Quarter of Eligible Professors Accept Retirement Program
of the 176 senior faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and four professional schools who were offered a retirement program last December , 46—or 26 percent—have enrolled. That information, and data in another recent report to the …