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Engineering Superior Photosynthesis
… Photosynthesis combines sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and … the food that sustains plant growth. But roughly 18 percent of the world’s flowering plant-species have evolved a superior form of this process: C4 photosynthesis. Such plants—corn is one …
Issue: March-April 2018
HAA News
… counterintuitive to hail an electronic print directory of works of visual art, but the debut of the Harvard University Art Museums' …
Issue: September-October 2002
ROTC Returns
… on March 4 by President Drew Faust and U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus clears the way for the Naval Reserve … the College curriculum—potential deal-breakers—do not arise now. Faust had previously indicated strong support for …
Issue: May-June 2011
Further Undisclosed E-mail Investigations Revealed at Harvard
… In a tense Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting this afternoon, Michael D. Smith, the dean, revealed that additional “concerning … interested in the Administrative Board case and was kept apprised of its progress throughout the fall. Back in …
Abreu, Menino, Pagels, and Oprah: The Honorands
… During the Morning Exercises of the 362nd Commencement, on May … are listed here in alphabetical order, not in the order of conferral of degrees.) José Antonio Abreu, pianist and …
Making Directors Accountable
… T he many corporate scandals of the past two years have highlighted the importance of … corporate arrangements: when new issues and circumstances arise, arrangements addressing them are adopted only if and …
Issue: November-December 2003
Zachary R. Mider ’01 Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
… The Pulitzer Prize board today announced the 2015 winners … exposé on Illinois residential treatment centers for wards of the state. Jackson and Marx were previously Pulitzer … P. Kallaugher ’77 was named a finalist in the category of editorial cartooning for his work for The Baltimore Sun. …
Architecture as Liberal Art
… At the start of their undergraduate architecture lab this fall, Mark … their students an assignment that seemed like something out of a high-school shop class: take two pieces of wood, and …
Issue: January-February 2015
Figs Were First
… New archaeobotanical evidence pushes the dawn of agriculture back to 11,400 years ago, when humans living in a village eight miles north of ancient Jericho began propagating seedless figs. Ofer …
Issue: January-February 2007
Making It
… wine, Harvard alumni throughout New England are asserting their entrepreneurial rights to create delicious things to … that is, which otherwise consumes more than 100 hours of their week and all of their attention. But Im not very … the first farm in 1996, national sales of organic food have risen 20 percent, he reports, with organic meat sales alone …
Issue: November-December 2006
Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum
… Before painter Milton Avery’s works were featured in the world’s most prestigious museums—and long before they … in the millions—the artist now known for his playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire lived an … Connecticut. Laboring and clerking at various factories and offices, Avery, born in 1885, supported his family while …
Issue: March-April 2022
Reliably Enterprising
… people return to because it’s comfortable--but surprising. The venue is cozy, with a dash of the sultry: walls are persimmon orange against dark … glass vases hang gracefully by a very small bar that offers well-selected wines and microbrewed beers. The work …
Issue: November-December 2010
Karmaloop
… College: not a typical background for a major retailer in the clothing industry. Furthermore, until age 29, Greg … after starting Karmaloop.com in 2000. Today, the enterprise is one of the 50 fastest-growing Internet companies in America: it …
The FAS and SEAS Campaign Co-Chairs
… The leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and … which it sold in 2011 to Microsoft, the software enterprise founded by Hutchins’s College classmate Bill Gates, … and board chair of 2U , an online higher-education enterprise that is exploring some of the same technological …
Andrew W. Murray
… Photograph by Jon Chase One week after publication of the human genome, Andrew W. Murray, professor of molecular and cellular biology and director of …