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… Architects of an American Landscape , by Hugh Howard (Atlantic Monthly … 1864, LL.D. ’93, was creating New York’s Central Park in the late 1850s, Henry Hobson Richardson, A.B. 1859, from New … playing whist than to academics. In this joint biography of the great landscape designer and the great architect who …
Issue: March-April 2022
Cognitive Benefits of Healthy Buildings
… by adjusting ventilation rates in its workplace. On paper, the outcome would seem overwhelmingly positive: fewer … Joseph Allen and his team at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) describe as the potentially serious … both energy-efficient and healthy,” says Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science. In 2015, his team …
Issue: May-June 2017
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Building—and Buying—a Campus
… "Is Harvard Running Out of Space?” ran a headline in this magazine in the spring of 1989. The answer, the accompanying article … the early 1990s mainly because the academic spaces the high-rise contained couldn’t easily be replaced at the same …
Issue: September-October 2011
Misguided Mind Fixers
… The rapid rise of biological psychiatry assured that, … bound to overreach. It did so spectacularly, argues Ford professor of the history of science Anne Harrington, as …
Issue: May-June 2019
The Campaign Computes
… As it proceeded during the fall semester, The Harvard Campaign featured a … gift (computer sciences); and interesting evidence of the effects ofsmaller-scale philanthropy across the … scarcer. Hence the emphasis on securing the research enterprise through the campaign. Innovation: $50 million. Under …
Issue: January-February 2015
Wendel Meyer Appointed Acting Minister of Memorial Church
… its staff as associate minister for administration after the Reverend Peter J. Gomes suffered a heart attack and … 28 . Meyer "understands both the distinctive character of the Memorial Church and the rich diversity of Harvard’s larger religious profile," said President Drew …
Buy America
… Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media Corporation, $19.95), gets … like changing the cellophane tape on the Translux ticker machines that ran all day, printing the trades on the New …
The World's Poor
… Such distinguished recent speakers at Harvard as Kofi Annan, Nelson Mandela, and Amartya Sen have decried the desperate plight of the world's poorest people--the … is not the same as Jessica's point. The gap in real dollars rises even if China grows at 8 percent, and the U.S. grows …
The Presidency, Pending
… Feverish speculation notwithstanding, the Corporation did not use its regularly scheduled meeting with the Board of Overseers during the first weekend in February to present … January 31, when Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, called the Crimson …
Issue: March-April 2007
Harvard at Home
… The University's on-line educational venture, Harvard at Home, now offers a dozen capsule versions of seminars, talks, and … of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, explores Cromwell's rise to power, complete with battle maps and a timeline. …
Issue: November-December 2001
Of Phở, Bún, and Fish Sauce
… Duong Huynh and Vinh Le (no relation to Le’s owners) peruse the menu. As the duo behind Nem, a local Vietnamese food venture that offers culinary classes and pop-up dinners, they are, … for a meal you have only two or three small pieces of meat. So when we have food, we sit around and talk and we …
Issue: March-April 2019
Can the Catholic Church Help Explain Western Psychology?
… During the past 10 years, social scientists have wrestled with a powerful criticism of their research: their favorite subjects, American college … early councils saw it as an affront to God. “I was surprised just how preoccupied medieval Europe was with the fear …
From the Archives: Animal Research
… The volume of biomedical research, and of trials of new therapies, has increased dramatically in recent decades, …
Fatherhood Affects Testosterone
… The New York Times published a page-one report on September … detailing a startling new scientific discovery : the level of testosterone, the male hormone, declines after a man … parenting behavior in a way that is conducive to nurturing offspring. The Times reported that the research “suggests …
“Fallen to the Depths”
… Writer Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 is justly acclaimed for The Catcher Was a Spy , his biography of Moe Berg; The Fly Swatter ( about his grandfather, the …
Issue: September-October 2022