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Freedom from Food
When Juna Gjata ’17 was growing up, everyone she knew seemed to be on a diet. Weight-conscious adults ordered salads with dressings on the side, requested coffee without milk or sugar, and ate unflavored rice cakes. Her high-school friends followed along. …
Issue: September-October 2022
Brevia
Science Center Schematic Harvard planners have introduced the design for the science and engineering complex in Allston , encompassing 586,000 square feet of new construction and repurposed space at 114 Western Avenue. The new building will house much of …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard Great Performances: Andrew Fischer ’16
Saturday would have been the 137th edition of The Game. But for the first time since the wartime year of 1944, it will not be played. (Harvard trails, 60-68-8.) One fellow I know, from the Class of ’72, plans to show up at Soldiers Field anyway, simply to …
Off the Shelf
Architects of an American Landscape , by Hugh Howard (Atlantic Monthly Press, $30). As Fredrick Law Olmsted, A.M. 1864, LL.D. ’93, was creating New York’s Central Park in the late 1850s, Henry Hobson Richardson, A.B. 1859, from New Orleans, was making his …
Issue: March-April 2022
A New Voice
Ann Kim Ha, M.Arch. ’08, first started thinking about Walter the crocodile sometime in 2020. COVID-19 had shut down much of the world, and she was at home with her children, who were then two and four. “It was a very intense time,” she says. Work and …
Issue: May-June 2025
University Vows to Cut Greenhouse Gases
Harvard aims to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent in the next eight years, President Drew Faust announced today. The University has already committed to ambitious environmental goals for the new Allston campus, but this is the first …
Harvard Basketball Star Noah Kirkwood’s Mid-Season Pivot
In the first half of the men’s basketball team’s November game against MIT, Noah Kirkwood ’22 leapt into the air and swatted a shot off the backboard. Then his defense turned to offense: sprinting down the center of the court, Kirkwood received an outlet …
Harvard’s Incredible Shrinking Executive-Education Programs
During the past decade of recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, Harvard has enjoyed progressively robust growth in executive and continuing education—so much so that this “business” has come to play an important role in diversifying the …
New Fellows
This magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2014-2015 academic year—selected from among nearly 30 applicants—will be Olivia Munk ’16 and Melanie Wang ’15. The fellows join the editorial staff and contribute to the magazine during …
Issue: September-October 2014
Harvard in the Interim
Harvard ’s new normal began to take shape during the spring semester. New Corporation fellows were appointed (see “News in Brief,” this issue, page 23). Long-time provost Alan M. Garber, who had moved a few yards within Massachusetts Hall on January 2, …
Issue: May-June 2024
New Fellows
The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2015-2016 academic year will be Jenny Gathright ’16 and Bailey Trela ’16. The fellows join the editorial staff and contribute to the magazine during the year, writing the “Undergraduate” …
Issue: September-October 2015
Community with Purpose
After graduating with an English literature degree, Allyson Mendenhall ’90, M.L.A. ’99, moved to Manhattan and joined Random House. Analytical and articulate, she enjoyed working with writers and promoting books. But it was the urban world outside the …
Issue: September-October 2022
Sarah Ganz Blythe New Art Museums Director
Sarah Ganz Blythe , deputy director, exhibitions, education, and programs at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (RISD), has been appointed Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums effective August 12, interim provost John Manning announced today. …
Harvard Endowment Increases Modestly to $37.1 Billion During Early Stages of Overhaul
Performance highlights for fiscal 2017: •The endowment’s value stood at $37.1 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2017, an increase of $1.4 billion (3.9 percent) from $35.7 billion a year earlier . (The endowment had reached $37.6 billion at the …
News in Brief
Decanal Duo… A professor returning to Harvard and one in continuing service have been appointed to lead Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS, part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS). President …
Issue: November-December 2023