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Breaking Ground in Allston
On November 1, the Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC) and development partner Tishman Speyer hosted a groundbreaking ceremony in Boston’s Allston neighborhood to mark the beginning of construction on the enterprise research campus (ERC). The event, …
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Cash Conservation Crimson Style The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative aims both to attract applicants and to enroll more students from modest economic circumstances. But what happens when they land in pricey Cambridge? This funky Shoestring Strategies for …
Issue: March-April 2006
Harvard Alumni Day with Courtney B. Vance
Two sets of protestors briefly interrupted interim president Alan M. Garber’s remarks during the Alumni Day celebration on Friday, May 31, as he and other speakers acknowledged Harvard’s divisions and difficult year and emphasized the importance of …
Striving for the Straus Cup
On a windy evening in Harvard Stadium, a dozen cleated undergraduates step onto the turf for a high-stakes football game. While they warm up, the crowd is silent. In fact, there is no crowd. This is not The Game; it’s a Tuesday night intramural battle …
Issue: July-August 2023
Harvesting Autumn at Ward’s Berry Farm
Maybe it’s the jolly rotundity, or that splash of orange and cozy look of a candlelit jack-o’-lantern as the autumn days shorten toward winter. Whatever the cause, pumpkin season seems to bring a jolt of joy to New Englanders. “Pick your own starts at the …
Issue: September-October 2022
King, Kirschner Named University Professors
Quantitative social scientist Gary King and systems biologist Marc Kirschner have been named University Professors. King becomes the Weatherhead University Professor, succeeding the late Samuel P. Huntington. Kirschner becomes the Enders University …
Gilbert and Sullivan, Today
ASher Chamoy ’25 tried multiple times, to no avail, to convince his high school to mount a work by the Victorian dramatist-composer duo W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. “I was always trying to get them to do The Pirates of Penzance or some other G&S …
Issue: November-December 2024
“Go Guard the Galaxy”
Emmy Award-winning neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta was keynote speaker at today’s 2023 Class Day ceremony for the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He shared with graduates what he believes being a doctor truly means. Gupta, the …
Sleep Deprivation in America
Sleepless in America , a television program on the current epidemic of sleep deprivation, will air on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday, November 30, at 8 p.m. EST. A wide range of illnesses and accidents—crashes involving drowsy drivers are an …
Thomas J. Hollister Appointed Harvard’s CFO
Thomas J. Hollister, a former banking executive, has been appointed chief financial officer and vice president for finance, as of the middle of May. He will fill an important vacancy in the University’s senior administrative ranks, created when Dan Shore, …
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Judge Posner I have to praise Lincoln Caplan’s article on Judge Richard Posner (“ Rhetoric and Law, ” January-February, page 49) for largely avoiding the gushing worshipfulness of the typical Harvard Magazine piece. But I still must demur on some points. …
Issue: March-April 2016
“Insider Luck”
The compensation of top American corporate executives has soared during the past 15 years. Measured in 2005 dollars, the average annual compensation of the CEOs of the large companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 almost tripled from 1992 to 2005, growing …
Issue: March-April 2007
It’s Complicated
My first job out of college was in a small newspaper bureau in a parish—that’s Louisiana-speak for county—just east of New Orleans’s Ninth Ward. Our office, a squat former bank branch, sat on the main thoroughfare, Judge Perez Drive, named for an early …
Issue: September-October 2025
Quantum Leap for Engineering
Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) may soon become a full-fledged school of engineering, under a plan presented in May to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) by the division dean, Venkatesh Narayanamurti. During his …
Issue: July-August 2006
Could Regenerative Biology Work in Humans?
Chop a three-banded panther worm in half, and the head and tail will swirl around as if nothing had happened. Even more astonishing, a few days later, the halves will grow to become two complete and almost indistinguishable worms. Loeb associate professor …
Issue: July-August 2021