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“Our History Is a Treasure Box”
It started 150 years ago , with the idea that perhaps Harvard should offer a graduate program. Initially, the College faculty balked: wouldn’t a graduate school siphon funding and attention from undergraduates? Not according to President Charles William …
Brevia
Nameless No More The New College Theatre , a focal point for undergraduate productions—created from 2005 to 2007 by new construction behind, and a renovation of the façade of, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals venue—has become Farkas Hall . Andrew L. Farkas …
Issue: January-February 2012
Probing the Microbial World Within Us
The most versatile chemists in the world live inside us. Trillions of microbes, of several hundred species, an aggregation containing 150 times as many unique genes as a human, make our bodies their home. More biological activity may take place between …
Issue: July-August 2021
Air Pollution’s Systemic Effects
Breathing fine particles suspended in the air is harmful for everyone—and can kill those with cardiovascular or respiratory vulnerabilities, a fact known since the 1990s . Now a study of 95 million Medicare hospitalization claims from 2000 to 2012 links …
Issue: March-April 2020
Keeping Them Close
The ambulance rolls onto a treeless street in Boston, stopping at a triple-decker across from a defunct bar and an asphalt lot. The medical team greets Crystal, exiting the house with her son in a baby carrier, and helps them inside the tight, cozy space. …
Issue: May-June 2021
Conversation on Teaching, Continued: Going Global
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) continues its series of "Conversations@FAS" —focused this semester on teaching and learning. Following a February 11 panel and discussion on activity-based learning , the March 25 session, "Instilling a Global …
Crimson “Bodice-Rippers”
“Of course their hook was ‘Harvard student writes bodice-ripper,’” says Lauren Willig, A.M. ’03, J.D. ’06. And of course it worked: the publisher’s strategy attracted “all sorts of media attention” to her novel The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. …
Issue: July-August 2015
No Surprises: Harvard's 2010 Financial Report
The Harvard University Financial Report for fiscal year 2010 (ended last June 30), released today, appears to fulfill administrators' fondest hopes in that it conveys essentially no surprises. In this respect, the report contrasts sharply with the fiscal …
Off the Shelf
Stay True, by Hua Hsu, Ph.D. ’08 (Doubleday, $26). A New Yorker staff writer and Vassar associate professor travels back to his youth as a son of Taiwanese immigrants, coming to terms with his culture, and his college friendship with Ken, a perfectly …
Issue: September-October 2022
Eat, Drink, Read
I f you agree with C.S. Lewis that “eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably,” then head straight to the Map Room Tea Lounge, at the Boston Public Library. The amber-toned room with a vintage feel opened last year in the landmark …
Issue: January-February 2020
Creative Exposure
Tension crackled through the audience, which was clumped in a circle in the Frankfurt Conference Center. At the center of the group, Lena Chen ’09, an artist and writer, paced like a cat around a bed, scanning nervous faces for her next victim. A camera …
Issue: January-February 2020
Graduate Students Strike
A t press time, two days before the beginning of winter reading period, the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW) began a strike, with day-long picket lines planned during the first week of December in Harvard Yard and at the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Harvard and Life Sciences Partners to Build a Center for Biological Therapies
A Harvard-led consortium of Boston-area healthcare, biotech, and biopharma institutions will open a $50-million nonprofit facility for the development of cell- and gene-based therapies, the University announced today. The hope is that the center will make …
Arts and Sciences’ Inflection Point
Students of learning and teaching at Harvard will find two especially interesting disclosures in the new annual report from Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith , covering the 2013-2014 academic year: The number of undergraduates …
Comedy Is Magic
Harrison Greenbaum was five when his father pulled out a deck of cards and told him to pick one. Greenbaum did, and then watched his dad riffle the rest of the deck beside his own ear, saying the cards would tell him which one his son had chosen. With a …
Issue: November-December 2019