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Yesterday’s News
… 1913 The class of ’14 votes almost unanimously for the installation of electric lights in the senior dorms, suggesting the …
Issue: March-April 2013
“Through a Thunderstorm and Into the Sunlight Again”
… President Drew Faust sounded optimistic notes about the condition of the University and its direction, as students prepared to … Faust said, after the “unanticipated, earthshaking crises of 2008-2009” (when the endowment’s value sank by …
Treasure in the Genome’s Trash
… The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard often grabs headlines for its discoveries about the genetics underlying such diseases as cancer, heart …
Issue: May-June 2008
Death by the Barrel
… This particular gun story took place, ironically enough, at the 1997 convention of the American Public Health Association in Indianapolis. There, among a group of white-collar professionals and academics, a seemingly …
Issue: September-October 2004
The Early Retirees
… The University has disclosed how many staff members, by school, were offered and accepted the voluntary early-retirement … those 55 years and older, with 10 or more years of Harvard service--one of the principal cost-saving …
Harvard Announces Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
… On Monday afternoon, Harvard announced the appointment of Sheree Ohen as the inaugural associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging for the Faculty of …
The Disinformation Dilemma
… In the discussion of how Russian operatives manipulated public opinion during the 2016 presidential election, it’s easy to overlook how … tools originally designed to further the economic interests of leading Internet companies like Facebook and Google. …
Issue: May-June 2018
Artist Rick Lowe to Headline Graduate School of Design Class Day
… Rick Lowe, a pioneering public artist, will speak at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day on May 27. Lowe, a 2002 Loeb Fellow at the GSD, is best known for his two decades of work with Project Row Houses (PRH). He founded the …
Square Deals?
… A Spectre is haunting Harvard Square—the spectre of commercial real-estate development. Karl Marx … a high-end retail mall. The trusts in control of the low-rise buildings across Brattle, and down the block (beyond …
Issue: January-February 2018
The Glass House
… The following text is a sidebar to " Modern and Historic ," … the Glass House itself, the Brick (guest) House, a glass-roofed sculpture gallery, paintings that are located in an … Johnson’s on-site visitor’s center inspired by the work of artist and architect Frank Stella. Along the way, …
Issue: September-October 2007
Summer at the Beach
… For 42 summers, George Howe Colt '76 repaired to the four-story, 11-bedroom ark of a summer house his great-grandfather Ned Atkinson built on a Cape Cod peninsula in 1903. Now the members of the extended family who own the romantic, run-down place …
Issue: July-August 2003
The SIGnboard
… seek fellow alumni who share your interests, remember that the Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this space. (Send items to …
Issue: March-April 2009
The New Old Boston Athenaeum
… In the mid 1990s Leah Rosovsky ’78, M.B.A. ’84, was raising … the Harvard libraries during a capital campaign as a member of the FAS development team. She recalls people saying, … anymore now that everything is turning to digital.’ And, of course,” she says now, “the absolute opposite has …
Issue: March-April 2025
News from the HAA
… Hiram Hunn Awards • Call for Nominations Alumni Abroad The Harvard Alumni Association is sponsoring a "Harvard in … to "engage our global alumni in the intellectual life" of the University. The event takes place in London on the weekend of November 14. Highlights include seminars on "Constructing …
Issue: September-October 2003
Seasons at the Arboretum
… In 2008, photographer Jim Harrison, whose portraits of Harvard community members have appeared in this magazine for decades, turned his eye to a new subject: the plants at the University’s Arnold Arboretum, where he … when shooting outdoors, the “golden hours” just after sunrise and just before sunset provide dramatic light. For …
Issue: July-August 2018