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Inclusive Design, Incisive Art
… a street map representing math, dreams, and a spreadsheet of the economic and social resources that go into the art she … boulevards demarcating “Patriarchy,” “Space,” and “Concept of Reality,” with tiny side streets labeled “Climate …
Issue: November-December 2023
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 …
A Right Way to Read?
… I started early on, when I was in kindergarten, learning the ABCs,” she remembers. English is her second language, … her first, and when she was younger, the letters and sounds of English weren’t intuitive. By middle school, she could … longer texts. Then, during sixth grade and the first half of seventh grade, she worked with literacy coach Emma …
Issue: September-October 2024
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
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
What Does the Arctic Circle Sound Like?
… and composer Claire Dickson ’19 was on a tall ship in the Arctic Circle when she composed the first song on her … from Svalbard, Norway through the Arctic Circle as part of a two-week artist residency, dropped anchor off a rocky beach. Dickson had an idea, listening to the …
A Look in the Mirror
… On December 12, the Harvard Corporation declared its unanimous support for … pointing to changes in some citations but rejecting claims of research misconduct. The University’s five living former … days later, on January 2, Gay resigned. (A summary of the news appears in “A Presidency’s End,” at page 14 in …
Issue: March-April 2024
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 …
Values and Voting Patterns
… In an era of growing political polarization, new research moves beyond typical economic explanations, such as the loss of blue-collar manufacturing jobs, to offer a fresh … worry about the plight of a small Pacific island as oceans rise. “When politicians communicate about environmental …
Issue: January-February 2024
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 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
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 …
The Internet Generation
… mail (e-mail) feels like pouring cold molasses. This is one of the busiest times on Harvard's network, with the most students connected. Thousands of messages are pouring through the Internet like cars …