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Up Close (Virtually) with the Forbes Pigment Collection
… The Harvard Art Museums’ world-famous Forbes Pigment … to visitors. It sits behind glass walls on the fourth floor of the museums’ Renzo Piano-redesigned building, where … are tightly arranged like scientific specimens in a row of neat gray cabinets. This year, though, visitors can’t …
The Hunt for New Drugs
… The Harvard Malaria Initiative ( www.hsph. harvard.edu/research/hmi ) began in 1997 as a way of bringing together varied resources and expertise across Harvard to focus on scientific problems of the malaria epidemic. The team—a collaboration among the …
Issue: March-April 2010
Out with the Sake, in with the Ale
… A colleague once faulted Stephen Owen for using the word "flagon" in his translation of a Tang dynasty text. Standard translations parsed the … which have little cuts in the side where the smoke rises, imitating clouds. "So far we have, 'I don't know …
A New Code of Conduct: Hacking Gender in Tech
… for five main reasons, according to Parisa Tabriz, Google’s official “Security Princess”: They want security (in software). They enjoy the challenge (of breaking …
Jazzy Tribute to Tom Everett
… Appropriately enough, an evening of superb jazz on Saturday, April 13, formed the final Harvard tribute to Tom Everett, who retired this … with the band on his own composition, the spirited High Rise. After an intermission, saxophonist Joshua Redman ’91 …
Your Take: Dropping Out of Harvard
… In the July-August 2010 issue of the magazine, Craig Lambert explores the lives of three dropouts from the Harvard class of 1969. Read the …
Issue: July-August 2010
Time in Space
… Many who work in and around the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts have a weird … students: his notoriety, when combined with the loudness of his architecture, means that making art able to hold its … an experimental and communal lifestyle, the building gave rise to the California strain of modernist architecture. The …
Issue: March-April 2018
Taking a Page from Knopf
… Since becoming director of Harvard University Press (HUP) in September 2017, George Andreou has begun tackling the biggest challenges facing academic publishing—the rise of online scholarly publishing, changed economics in an …
Issue: November-December 2018
The Moral Leader
… I met Neil Rudenstine for the first time on August 5, 1992. I was a partner in a … it by saying that Neil has a capacity, unusual for a man of his age and position, to listen--really listen--to … in good condition. As he leaves, it is the greatest center of scholarship and learning anywhere. For Harvard to …
Read All About It
… The earliest history of Crimson athletics appeared in The … in 1923, the Harvard Varsity Club brought out The H Book of Harvard Athletics: 1852-1922 . Its 624 pages were devoted … Its two volumes chronicle an eventful era that saw the rise of women’s teams and the addition of fencing, golf, …
Issue: January-February 2015
The Rittase Touch
… When the engineer-turned-photographer William Rittase visited Harvard in the fall of 1932, he captured a campus that was in the middle of a radical transformation. President Abbott Lawrence …
11 Percent Investment Return Boosts Value of Endowment to $27.4 Billion
… Harvard’s endowment was valued at $27.4 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2010—up 5.4 percent from $26.0 … the sharp decline in fiscal year 2009. … Harvard endowment rises 11 percent … 1508 … 1511 … 11 Percent Investment …
The Watertown Agreement
… The fact that Harvard has agreed to pay Watertown $3.8 … "Watertown-Gown," November-December 2002, page 54) as part of a revenue-protection agreement has not gone unnoticed in … University pays $6.3 million in taxes and payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) on its entire Cambridge campus while …
Issue: March-April 2003
Words from the Wilderness for Classmates
… At the middle of the twentieth century, Ernest Oberholtzer '07, G '08 (1884-1977), longtime president of the Quetico-Superior Council, was "one of the best known …
Issue: May-June 2002
Federico Cortese
… believe classical music is dying,” says Federico Cortese, the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, “but I do believe there is a risk of becoming too aloof from the rest of the world.” Since …
Issue: September-October 2009