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Cherry Murray Steps Down as Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
Cherry A. Murray , dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) since mid 2009 , announced today that she would relinquish the post at the end of 2014. She intends to return to regular service on the faculty, according to the news …
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Upsizing Samuels & Associates, the Harvard-designated developer for Barry’s Corner (at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue) in Allston, in December filed its proposal for a residential and retail “commons” with 325 rental …
Issue: March-April 2013
Post-Regulatory School Reform
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United States was trying to come to grips with a serious education crisis. The country was lagging behind its international peers, and a many-decade effort to erode racial disparities in school achievement had …
Issue: September-October 2016
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Niemans of Note The seventy-fifth class of Nieman Fellows —24 journalists chosen to study at Harvard during the 2012-2013 academic year—will include two Nieman-Berkman Fellows in Journalism Innovation . The new partnership between the Nieman Foundation …
Issue: July-August 2012
Football: Harvard 24, Cornell 7
It was a dark and stormy half. The first 30 minutes of the Harvard football team’s game against Ivy League rival Cornell at the Stadium on Saturday were played in the rain and the dank. The dismal performance of the Crimson offense (and the Big Red’s, for …
Imagining Harvard at 400
Five younger faculty members convened at the first Conversations @ FAS panel of 2012, to discuss what the University might become when it turns 400 in 2036. In so doing, they pursued a similar venture to that of a distinguished group of alumni who …
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That Voice, Stilled The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, who had suffered a heart attack and subsequent stroke in December, as previously reported, died on February 28. His death …
Issue: May-June 2011
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Professor Summers Returns The White House on September 21 announced that Lawrence H. Summers would conclude his service as director of the National Economic Council--the principal economic-policy assistant to President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91--at year-end. …
Issue: November-December 2010
11 Percent Investment Return Boosts Value of Endowment to $27.4 Billion
Harvard’s endowment was valued at $27.4 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2010—up 5.4 percent from $26.0 billion at the end of fiscal 2009—according to the annual report released by Harvard Management Company (HMC). During the fiscal year just …
Sticking to the Union
As a full-time freelance writer in New York City for 15 years, Greg Lichtenberg ’88 tolerates the cash-flow anxieties because of the clear lifestyle benefits: lots of control over his time (especially helpful for parenting), and the chance to truly employ …
Issue: July-August 2010
Endowment Returns, Endowment Management: Straws in the Wind?
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has resumed its practice from before the acute financial crisis of late 2008: it will not issue interim updates on performance. Instead, it will revert to reporting investment returns on the University’s endowment …
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A Dean’s Departure Jay O. Light, who was appointed interim dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) in August 2005 and dean the following April, announced on December 2 that he will step down from the post and retire from the faculty at the end of this …
Issue: January-February 2010
FAS’s Financial Hole: A Little Less Deep
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith invited professors and staff members to a briefing titled "FAS Financial Update and Other FY '09 Accomplishments" on Tuesday afternoon, September 15, in the Science Center B lecture hall. His …
Women of the Year
Concluding the year in which Harvard transitioned from its first woman president to its twenty-eighth man to hold the office, the University showcased a dazzling array of female leaders during the 368th Commencement, May 28-31. Their spheres of action …
Issue: July-August 2019
One Small Step for Music
In the summer of 1977, NASA rocketed two spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit. Their mission: explore the unexplored. NASA had already been to the moon; with Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, its Jet Propulsion Laboratory wanted to push beyond the outer planets and …
Issue: July-August 2020