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How Planet Earth’s Trees Use Carbon
What is the carbon cycle, anyway? Most people are familiar with the basics: trees and other plants absorb CO₂ from the atmosphere and convert it back to oxygen. Since CO₂ is a molecule that traps the sun’s heat, trees and other carbon-sequestering …
Widsom of the Aged
Given separate Commencement and reunions/Alumni Day celebrations, Primus could not devote full attention during the pomp-cum-protests that marked this year’s 373rd exercises. Returning to reflect, he notes that Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, …
Issue: September-October 2024
Brevia
From Dean to Doctor Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School since 2007, announced in November—a year after launching the school’s $750-million capital campaign—that he would step down on July 31. He steered the school through the financial crisis …
Issue: January-February 2016
Brevia
Commencement Closer Turning from national and international leaders and celebrities (Michael R. Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66, LL.D. ’14, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, LL.D. ’11, Oprah Winfrey, LL.D. ’13), the University has gone local. Deval L. Patrick ’78, …
Issue: May-June 2015
News Briefs
Enlarged Allston Ambitions Even as work proceeds toward construction of the first commercial buildings in Harvard’s 14-acre “enterprise research campus” (ERC) along Western Avenue in Allston, the University’s development partner, Tishman Speyer, has begun …
Issue: May-June 2021
"To Repair This Imperfect World"
“Worrying seems about as necessary as breathing these days,” President Lawrence J. Bacow remarked last Friday in his address at the tenth annual Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference. “Global challenges abound, and efforts to …
A Ray of Light amid Middle East Devastation
“Open, sesame!” This phrase, familiar from childhood stories, comes from Antoine Galland’s translation of One Thousand and One Nights. In the story, it is spoken to open the mouth of a cave enclosing untold magical treasures. Like Ali Baba to the cave, …
A Summery Ceremony
The sun (graduation planners’ favorite celestial object) began burning through the morning murk at 5:50 a.m. By 6:10, a doctoral candidate, already in cap and gown, leaned over a stroller to kiss her husband as she and he and their befuddled toddler …
Centennial Medalists
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard. It is the …
Issue: July-August 2015
The Yard Libraries, Reimagined
Looking toward the University’s four-hundredth anniversary in 2036, the Harvard Library has conducted a feasibility study for the renovations of Widener, Lamont, Pusey, and Houghton libraries. The study, conducted during the 2022-2023 academic year, …
Issue: July-August 2024
American Ingenuity
To safeguard access to weaponry, in 1794 the new federal government expanded an arsenal into a national manufacturing base in Springfield, Massachusetts. Starting with hand-crafted flintlock muskets, the armory produced and stored military small …
Issue: November-December 2021
Mick Mulvaney Changes His Mind
On the morning of January 6, 2021, Mick Mulvaney met with new members of Congress in the Capitol. Mulvaney had served in the Trump administration since February 2017, first as director of the Office of Management and Budget, then as acting White House …
Harvard Endowment Valued at $41.9 Billion, Up 2.4 Percent
Highlights for fiscal 2020: •The endowment’s value was $41.9 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2020—an increase of $1.0 billion (2.4 percent) from $40.9 billion a year earlier . •Harvard Management Company (HMC) recorded a 7.3 …
Chan Zuckerberg Commits $500 Million to Harvard Neuroscience and AI Institute
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative co-founders and co-CEOs Mark Zuckerberg ’06, L.L.D. ’17 and Priscilla Chan ’07, announced today a gift to establish the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard. The new institute, which …