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Harvard Campaign Totals $9.62 Billion
… The value of Harvard’s brand name has now been established: … of the campus: As new challenges and opportunities arise in higher education and beyond, Harvard is well … Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), whose aid spending has risen about $100 million per year since 2004, when the aid …
Why Can't Computers Age With Us?
… when she retired in 1991, as were personal computers in the office. "I was also fortunate enough to have a … as possible." Marketing targeted at older adults is on the rise, Itzkowitz says, and SeniorNet, though a nonprofit …
Issue: July-August 2002
Party Like It’s the CCCLXXVth—and Many Lustra More
… In the November-December 1986 Harvard Magazine , devoted to coverage of the University’s gala 350th anniversary celebration that … in 1978 we consulted a classicist—Mason Hammond ’25, caller of academic processions at both the 1936 and 1986 …
Issue: September-October 2011
Greetings from Elmwood
… This is the first of my letters written from home. Right now, Adele … in higher education, I have had to deal with my share of crises, but none of them compares to the scope and scale of …
Issue: May-June 2020
In Search of the Social Microbiome
… The microbial flora that inhabits the gut, skin, lung, and oral cavity of humans and other animals is thought to play a critical … Any disruption or imbalance in that mix, a growing body of literature suggests, may trigger inflammation that …
Issue: September-October 2024
My Favorite Things
… There is something to love about every season at Harvard, … Watching eager students crisscross the Yard in swirls of leaves to get to a new class, hearing from faculty about … walking into Massachusetts Hall to escape the chill of early morning and learning about an exciting advance soon …
Issue: November-December 2014
Darren Higgins
… Remember the couple of hot dogs in your fridge that you appear to think are immortal? As the dogs lurk there for week after week, precooked and … pathogen can and does kill people at risk, although most of us toss off a touch of listeriosis with a bellyache, et …
Issue: March-April 2006
Slinging Meat
… Pining for the warmth of human babble on a wintry night? Duck into The … Tap & Trotter, the casual, grill-centric restaurant of chef Tony Maws, where hunks of meat and swillable drinks …
Issue: November-December 2014
What Books Are For
… The Radcliffe Institute was filled to capacity on October … publishers, writers, and marketers. What brought hundreds of people with diverse and sometimes disparate interests and … not their end, but rather their future. In fact, one of the goals of the Radcliffe Institute’s two-day conference …
Bricks & Politics
… summer day, 10 Boston-area architects pile into a van together and drive around for hours looking for beauty. Lately, … they haven’t been finding it at Harvard. They are members of a jury assembled annually by the Boston Society of … adjacent to Peabody Terrace, the complex of low- and high-rise buildings constructed in the 1960s to house graduate …
Issue: September-October 2007
Palfrey to Leave Harvard Law School
… John G. Palfrey VII ’94, J.D. ’01, who heads the Harvard Law School (HLS) library and serves as a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, will leave to become head of school at Phillips Academy, Andover, starting July 1. …
Gilbert and Sullivan, Today
… to no avail, to convince his high school to mount a work by the Victorian dramatist-composer duo W.S. Gilbert and Arthur … “I was always trying to get them to do The Pirates of Penzance or some other G&S show, annoying the … He grew up in Dallas, watching the 1983 movie version of The Pirates of Penzance with his father and rehearsing …
Issue: November-December 2024
“A Game of Inches”
… Last September , the members of the Harvard women’s basketball team stood in … the Lions and Tigers for the third straight year. Ahead of Sunday’s rematch with Columbia, how is Moore resetting …
Gilded Nut
… and gilt silver, but about four centuries ago cups such as the one shown here were well known to a species of European collector. These vessels were often displayed in a so-called cabinet of curiosities, or …
Issue: May-June 2011
Digital Stress on Teens
… this week by Emily Weinstein, Ed.M. ’14, and Larsen professor of education Robert Selman pinpoints specific … stressors related to adolescents’ experiences online. The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) researchers … of the anonymous teens’ personal accounts reveals how surprised teens are when these expressions of connection so …