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Moveable Feast
As noted elsewhere in this issue , 2022 will go down in Harvard annals as the year the institution broke a long tradition and altered the format of Commencement Day. Graduation exercises will continue to take place on a Thursday in late May, but the …
Issue: July-August 2022
Fresh Takes on the Caribbean
The multimedia exhibition “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today,” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, through February 25, opens with a bold tapestry. From across the room, Suchitra Mattai’s 2022 An Ocean Cradle could be a …
Issue: January-February 2024
Betting on Lookout Farm
As a serial entrepreneur, who had founded some 30 businesses, Steven Belkin, M.B.A. ’71, was primed to find out if his Lookout Farm in Natick, Massachusetts, could succeed not in spite of the pandemic, but because of it. “‘Open an outdoor restaurant?’” he …
Issue: September-October 2021
News Briefs
Toward a Fossil-Fuel-Free Future President Drew Faust announced on February 6 that Harvard would “seek to become fossil fuel free” by 2050—meeting energy needs sustainably and setting goals for purchased services that “rely as little as possible on fossil …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Issue: May-June 2018
COOP Conversion
Taking advantage of pandemic-reduced customer traffic, the Harvard COOP has accelerated a renovation. It is consolidating books and merchandise (formerly in the Palmer Street annex) in its main store space, and eliminating its café; original architectural …
Issue: May-June 2021
Harvard’s Expanding Allston Plans
Last night , University officials presented the proposed first steps toward developing its “enterprise research campus” (ERC)—a non-academic “innovation” district for established companies and startups, as well as a hotel and conference center, together …
Clergy Roar like Lions
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912) was a transcendentalist, early feminist, reformer, and sometime attendee at Harvard Commencements. Her diary was published last fall: Daughter of Boston: …
Issue: July-August 2006
A Culinary Journey
Cooking practices “can open a window into the lives of enslaved people and help us understand slavery and its legacies,” said Radcliffe Institute dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin on Thursday, introducing a talk by chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty on the …
A Sensitive Census
The revelation last autumn that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) had made offers of tenured professorships to only four women during academic year 2003-2004—fewer than in any year save one during the preceding decade—set off the debate …
Issue: September-October 2005
A Thumb on the Scale
In February 2004 , when Harvard allotted an additional $2 million per year in scholarship funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of $60,000 or less, the College estimated that 73.9 percent of matriculants came from the highest socioeconomic …
Issue: May-June 2005
At 75, Murray Dewart Reflects on His Career as a Sculptor
Murray Dewart ’70, a Boston-raised sculptor, was born into a family of three generations of clergymen but always knew he wanted to be an artist. It wasn’t until he found the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts during his junior year at Harvard and threw …
Issue: March-April 2024
Harvard Invests in MIT’s The Engine
MIT-created venture firm The Engine, which aims to provide capital required to tackle difficult technological problems, has completed a $230-million funding round, including Harvard as an important new partner in the venture, and bringing its total …
$6 Billion-Plus
Update, October 21, 2015, 12:30 p.m. After this article was reported, two more schools provided data on the status of their campaign fundraising. The Harvard Kennedy School reported securing gifts totaling $432 million (toward a $500-million goal) as of …
Issue: November-December 2015
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
On Wednesday evening, during the Arts First festival’s opening event, Interim President Alan M. Garber paused the proceedings briefly to “acknowledge someone whose generosity of time and talent has shaped and altered forever the lives of countless …
How U.S. Companies Stole American Jobs
Thirty or 40 years ago, companies like General Motors and Chase Manhattan Bank hired their own janitors and clerical staff, not just top executives and engineers. Today, low-skilled jobs are often outsourced, with effects that are rippling across the …
Issue: July-August 2017