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Harvard Files Plan for Allston “Innovation” District
Harvard has publicly filed its proposal to develop its “enterprise research campus” (ERC), a non-academic, commercial “innovation” district in Allston just south of Harvard Business School (HBS) and east of the new science and engineering complex . The …
The Campus, Quieted
If “coronavirus” or “social distancing” becomes the word of the year, Harvard will have had a leg up on the lexicographers. On February 24, the University announced a $115-million biomedical research partnership with scientists in China to investigate the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Visual Music
On a table in the center of Holden Chapel rest a book, an unlit lamp, a potted leafy plant, and a ramekin of water. Visitors at Harvard’s 2017 ARTS FIRST Festival enter the darkened sanctuary one at a time, alone, and don an electroencephalogram (EEG) …
Issue: November-December 2021
COVID-19 and the Graduate Student Union
May 1 marked two years since the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW) was certified after Harvard graduate students voted to unionize. It was also the union’s most recent bargaining session with the University with a federal …
Has Harvard’s Endowment Stopped Growing?
Trees don’t grow to the sky. Nor, apparently, do financial investments. After several years of relatively robust returns on endowment assets invested by Harvard Management Company (HMC)— 15.4 percent in fiscal year 2014 (ended June 30 of that year); 11.3 …
The Geeky Underground
Before he was the acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 , Ray Bradbury was just another teenage boy with a science-fiction zine. Pronounced “zeen,” these self-published, often-low-budget magazines are staples in subcultures and …
Issue: July-August 2022
Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
Reunions are practically invented for storytellers. “There’s this amazing dramatic structure built into our lives as college graduates who are invited to return to campus every five years,” says the South African-born, Australian writer Ceridwen Dovey …
A Gene Therapy Breakthrough
As a young man, Sharif Tabebordbar remembers seeing his father struggling to play soccer, and then losing the ability to ride a bike. He could only watch as his father declined, his once healthy body ravaged by a degenerative muscle disease that …
Near Miss in the NCAA
A furious comeback by the Harvard men’s basketball team fell short Thursday evening as the Crimson lost to the heavily favored North Carolina Tar Heels 67-65 in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament. The Crimson trailed by 16 points with just over 15 …
“Our Planet in Microcosm”
US. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Nicholas Burns addressed the 659 members of the Harvard Kennedy School’s class of 2024 at their Class Day on May 22, bearing a message of hope. Amid a litany of challenges facing this generation of …
After Slavery Report, What Next?
The hard part has barely begun. That was the reality that kept surfacing last Friday during an all-day conference at the Radcliffe Institute exploring questions raised by the 130-page report Harvard released last week documenting the University’s …
The Interim Agenda
Derek Bok, Harvard’s president from 1971 to 1991, resumes those duties on July 1 on an interim basis until a permanent successor to Lawrence H. Summers takes office. In late March, shortly before his second visit to campus in preparation for his return to …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Senior Alumni
Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Theodore R. Barnett ’41, of Stowe, Vermont, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard alumni present on Commencement Day. For Richmond, 97, it was a distinction she also enjoyed three years ago (see …
Issue: July-August 2018
Photo Recap: The 70th Annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year Awards
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented their 2020 Woman and Man of the Year Awards to Elizabeth Banks and Ben Platt: the former a three-time Emmy nominee, writer, director, and producer; the latter, the youngest recipient of the Man of the Year …
Harvard Endowment Rises to $37.6 Billion on 5.8 Percent Investment Return
HIGHLIGHTS: The endowment’s value stood at $37.6 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2015—finally exceeding the nominal peak value (not adjusted for inflation) of $36.9 billion realized in fiscal year 2008, just before the financial crisis and …