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Seasonal • April 30 to May 3 www.fas.harvard.edu/arts 617-495-8690/76 The annual Arts First festival, free and open to the public, offers an undergraduate Smörgåsbord of dances, concerts, plays, and other performances. President Drew Faust honors this …
Issue: March-April 2009
Football: Harvard 35, Bucknell 7
Three defenders converged on Kyle Juszczyk at midfield as he brought down a pass from quarterback Colton Chapple. But bringing down Juszczyk is like halting a runaway train. The senior tight end broke free, stiff-armed one more would-be tackler at the …
Endowment Declines 22 Percent through October 31
Going beyond the disclosures made on November 10 and November 18 , the University on December 2 released new information to deans and financial administrators indicating that the value of Harvard's endowment had declined 22 percent through October 31. (It …
$125-Million Gift for Bioengineering
Hansjörg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65, who became president of the U.S. division of Synthes in 1977 and drove the company to global leadership as a manufacturer of medical devices during the ensuing 30 years (he stepped down as CEO in 2007), has given the University …
Debtor Nation
Consumerism is as American as cherry pie. Plasma TVs, iPods, granite countertops: you name it, we’ll buy it. To finance the national pastime, Americans have been borrowing from abroad on an increasingly stunning scale. In 2006, the infusion of foreign …
Issue: July-August 2007
Anthologizing Yourself
After squeezing nearly 1,000 years of creativity into the Norton Anthology of Poetry , Mary Jo Salter ’76 began the smaller but still consuming task of anthologizing her own verse. The result, A Phone Call to the Future , revives selected poems from her …
Issue: July-August 2008
Off the Shelf
This Is Not My Memoir, by André Gregory ’56 and Todd London (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26). The avant-garde director, famous for his role in My Dinner with André , commits a memoir in cinematic short takes. They are bluntly, memorably framed, as in the …
Issue: November-December 2020
Own Goals
Harvard had enough problems last academic year without making matters worse for itself. Yet after handling the pro-Palestinian encampment in the Old Yard from April 24 to May 14 reasonably well (the locked gates isolated the protest, and after some talks …
Issue: September-October 2024
Global Gains
Photograph by Justin Ide/Harvard News Office Jorge I. Domínguez Harvard’s engagement with the world widened significantly during the fall term. New or enlarged programs of scholarship and study involving Brazil, Egypt, and South Asia were launched. A …
Issue: January-February 2008
Beyond the Genome
During the past few decades , most scientific research into the causes of autism has been focused on the structural wiring of the brain and on the genes that control it. Evidence of chronic sickness or general physical discomfort in autistic children has …
Issue: January-February 2008
Gathering Strings
When she was six years old, a harp was the most beautiful thing Elisabeth Remy Johnson had ever encountered. That year, her mother took her to a solo concert near their home on Cape Cod, where young Remy Johnson sat in the front row, motionless and …
Issue: January-February 2025
Think Tank for Aid Workers
After Michael J. VanRooyen finished his residency in emergency medicine in 1991, he went to Somalia. Eager to see how his medical training would translate into the context of a poor nation torn by civil war, VanRooyen concluded very quickly that it …
Issue: November-December 2007
"The Gates of Paradise"
The main baptistery doors of the Duomo in Florence, created by Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1425 and 1452, are among the masterpieces that ushered in the Renaissance. Michelangelo himself declared them “worthy to be the gates of Paradise.” Each bronze door …
Issue: March-April 2007
New Museum on Fast Track
Harvard planners announced in December that a new, permanent art museum would rise at 224 Western Avenue, a prime site in the University’s incipient Allston campus. Some facility is needed urgently in which to put a quarter of a million art objects, and …
Issue: March-April 2007
How to Make a Mammal
“What a mess ,” Sharad Ramanathan thinks, contemplating a group of cells growing in a glass dish. There are different cell types everywhere, the random “daughter cells” produced by a stem cell population. A mathematician and physicist by training, he …
Issue: January-February 2024