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A New Era in Allston
… After years of discussions and planning—and more than a quarter-century after the University began buying land for development in … complex. In their wake, academic facilities should rise quickly. Furthermore, the long-range goal of …
Issue: March-April 2015
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” at the ART Garners Mixed Reviews
… After composer Stephen Sondheim penned a scathing letter to the editor in the New York Times responding to Patrick … on The American Repertory Theater’s imminent revival of Porgy and Bess , theatergoers nationwide waited in … “are largely faithful to the spirit and the structure of the original.” And in Audra McDonald, he declares, the …
Harvard Endowment Rises to $36.4 Billion
… Updated 9-24-14; see below. HIGHLIGHTS: The endowment's value stood at $36.4 billion as of June 30 (within a half-billion dollars of the peak value … two landmark gifts, are paid, the endowment’s principal rises. A capital campaign, as its name implies, is in many …
The Financial Fallout…So Far
… Harvard’s adjustment to the coronavirus pandemic, from declining executive-education … enrollment last winter to the depopulating of campus and shift to online instruction in mid March, began to show up in the University and Faculty of Arts Sciences (FAS) annual financial reports for the …
Issue: January-February 2021
Cast Your Vote
… choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. The official candidates’ names appear in ballot order below, as … and communications, IBM Centennial, International Business Machines Corporation. Sanford Sacks, M.B.A. ’66, Scarsdale, …
Issue: May-June 2009
Colossal Blossom
… The largest flower in the world, Rafflesia arnoldii, is more … infected host vine and swell slowly over months to the size of cabbages. In full bloom, each bud’s central floral … region’s spectacular plant diversity. Where the landscape rises from coastal low-land tropics to Mount Kinabalu, which …
Issue: March-April 2017
“A Step Up from the Usual Beautiful”
… Cliff Amero has led tours of the Essex River estuary for almost 30 years. The unique coastline, just north of Gloucester, with its snaking Great Marsh inlets, sand …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Corporation Reports
… Two years after the Harvard Corporation enacted sweeping governance reforms … Nannerl O. Keohane, LL.D. ’93, and William F. Lee ’72 offered a briefing on how its work has changed. The reforms … expertise and internal committees providing deeper coverage of critical matters. Reischauer said each committee had …
Issue: March-April 2013
Measuring the Other
… Physical anthropologist Henry Field led an expedition to southern Iraq in 1934 for an anthropometric study of the Marsh Arabs, or Ma'dan. Although the large bulk of material he brought back—photographs of men in …
Issue: January-February 2005
He Has Made the World a Safer Place
… Thursday, May 31, former students, friends, and colleagues of molecular biologist Matthew Meselson, Cabot professor of natural sciences, gathered at the American …
Harvard Economists' Take on the Financial Crisis
… A new webpage hosted by the economics department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers a central place to find out what … current situation in the United States and past financial crises in developed countries, and outlines the patterns that …
Chinese Pottery: The First Five Millennia
… Connoisseurs have long celebrated—and collectors craved—the beauty and technical brilliance of Chinese ceramics: the floral exuberance of Qing dynasty … the candlepower. Mysteries requiring further scholarship arise. Certain Majiayao vessels are masters of craftsmanship: …
Fiction from Fairy Tales
… by New Directions this February, and that is no surprise: her cult novella Mrs. Caliban (1982) attracted renewed … scaly green frog-man—drew parallels to Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water , winner of four Academy Awards that year, …
Issue: March-April 2019
Why “Big Data” Is a Big Deal
… phones and credit cards and televisions and computers; from the infrastructure of cities; from sensor-equipped buildings, trains, buses, … from our mother and one from our father—that together comprise 6 billion base pairs,” Quackenbush continues, “a number …
Issue: March-April 2014
Radcliffe Talks Voting
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with a special, daylong series of events on May 30. In the Knafel Center that morning, the … at Northwestern, spoke next. Her book Black Victory: the Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (1979, revised …