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Faculty Seeks $100-Million to $130-Million Cost Cuts, Slashes Searches
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) needs to cut its annual operating costs by $100 million to $130 million. That daunting challenge remains after FAS imposes severe measures to rein in growth in current costs, including: freezing compensation for …
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An Eye on Immigration Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums © President and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program has created “Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930,” a Web-based set of …
Issue: March-April 2007
Extracurriculars
Defy the winter doldrums: attend a gospel concert, take kids to see Oliver Twist, or dip into the diverse array of exhibits on offer. This season, museums and libraries in and around Harvard Square provide a wide range of close looks at people (Leonard …
Issue: January-February 2007
Repatriating Native American Remains
When Joseph P. “Joe” Gone ’92 was a student at Harvard, the University was inventorying the thousands of Native American remains stored at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act …
Issue: September-October 2021
John Harvard Didn't Sleep Here
For three-quarters of a century, the Harvard rooms at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have hosted graduates of the New England university named for one of the college's alumni who received his degree from Cambridge in 1632. The scholarship that brings them …
Issue: July-August 2004
News from the HAA
• Alumni Abroad • Well Done • Harvard@Home • Hiram Hunn Awards • Call for Nominations Alumni Abroad The Harvard Alumni Association is sponsoring a "Harvard in Europe" conference, designed to "engage our global alumni in the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Harvard Makes the Case for Diversity
The University LAte Yesterday filed its amicus brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (hereafter, University of Texas ), the latest in a series of high-stakes cases concerning the consideration of race in admissions to institutions of higher …
Rebel Lawyer
With the sun finally fading on a blazing spring afternoon in Los Angeles, Gerald López, J.D. ’74, was sitting down to a simple dinner—salad, bread, Prosecco—at a restaurant a few blocks from the UCLA campus, where he teaches law. He has spent most of his …
Issue: September-October 2018
Radcliffe Women Share Their Stories
Almost 70 years after graduating from Radcliffe, Jewelle Taylor Gibbs ’55 still keeps in touch with classmates across the country. She fondly recalls memories of the women’s liberal-arts college, founded in 1879 as the counterpart to the then all-male …
Issue: July-August 2021
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Bettering Government Gail Christopher Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office With a $50-million endowment grant--its largest ever--the Ford Foundation has underwritten a new Institute for Government Innovation at the Kennedy School. The largest donation in the …
Boosting College Financial Aid
Harvard’s new undergraduate financial-aid policies, affecting even students from high-income families, were announced on December 10—and received national attention, setting off debate on financial aid generally, private institutions’ use of their …
Issue: March-April 2008
Hidden Treasures
On a recent visit to Broad Street, the heart of New Britain’s “Little Poland,” not a word of English was heard. Customers lined up for kielbasa at Krakus Meat Market, and picking out blintzes and cukierki czekoladowe (chocolate candies) at Polmart , or …
Issue: March-April 2018
Social Investing
In creating a diverse portfolio for Harvard's $17.5-billion endowment, the University's investment arm, Harvard Management Company (HMC), invests in hundreds of firms. That means weighing the probable return against the probable risk across scores of …
Issue: July-August 2003
Evolution, Synthesized
Few people would have the credentials, history, background, or brazen confidence to write a book with so definitive a title as What Evolution Is. But few would deny the right of Ernst Mayr, S.D. '80, Agassiz professor of zoology emeritus, to produce such …
Issue: March-April 2002
"Hell's Aardvarks" at 50
In the antediluvian days before e-mail, the Harvard Crimson's notice column published an alphabetical list announcing student events. Space limitations often swallowed notices at the end of the alphabet--like those of Harvard Yearbook Publications (HYP), …