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Rethinking Libraries for a Digital Future
… 2.0. And it is actively digitizing its holdings to make them available to audiences within and beyond the Harvard … people interact with information. The most fundamental of those interactions is examined in a curated, online exploration of the intellectual, cultural, and political history of …
Pioneer Valley Bounty
… For Milwaukee chef and restaurateur Sanford D’Amato, the move to Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley turned not on the providential bite of an apple, but of a ridiculously juicy peach. It was in 2007, when he and …
Issue: July-August 2024
University People
… Dunster House faculty deans Roger B. Porter , IBM professor of business and government, and Ann Porter announced in early March that they would step down at the end of this academic year, …
Issue: May-June 2017
An Arctic Mercury Meltdown
… When people think of mercury, says Daniel Jacob, they tend to think of the element in its silvery, fluid state—the stuff to …
Issue: November-December 2012
Web App: Add the Web App to “Favorites”
… USERS OF APPLE DEVICES running iOS 7 may benefit from a new … to “Bookmarks,” but it is called “Favorites.” Follow the steps below to add Harvard Magazine’ s web app to your … Once configured, “Favorites” will allow you to tap into all of the web app’s features without even leaving your browser. …
Sensational, Shocking Tabloid Run by Harvard Grad!
… For a few months recently, the National Enquirer added a two-word prefix to its name on … pages continue to lure readers with splashy color pictures of celebrities and even more colorful stories, the Enquirer … says Coz. "Yes, the Enquirer had a rich tradition of alien abductions, Elvis sightings, UFO stories. We are …
Yesterday's News
… 1912 Larz Anderson ’88 proposes to build a new bridge across the Charles River to replace the inadequate wooden structure … from Quincy Square to Harvard Square to reduce the noise of traffic. 1927 Play-by-play accounts of all Harvard … by…helping to organize student-conducted business enterprises….” The admissions committee’s newsletter notes the …
Issue: September-October 2007
Headquarters
… ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world. But when a courier reached … given him by a provincial congress, he took charge of ragtag forces and led an armed rebellion against a superpower as the first commander in chief of the American Revolution. General George Washington, …
Issue: July-August 2003
Sober Finances
… paints in attention-getting terms a sober portrait of the University’s circumstances today—and likely in the years … , edX , and the I-Lab —before pivoting to financial crises in Washington, D.C., and in Europe, and other …
Issue: January-February 2013
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events around the country. For information on future programs, contact …
Issue: May-June 2011
"Rush to Failure"
… On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan shocked the national security establishment by calling upon the … nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of … Way Out There in the Blue, we certainly shouldn't be surprised. … The flawed politics and policies of missile …
Harvard and HUCTW Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
… More than 4,600 members of Harvard’s largest labor union will not see deductibles or coinsurance in their healthcare plans for at least three more years, in a … agreement reached this week. The deal marks the end of nearly a year of strained negotiations between the …
$30 Million for “Work in the Years Ahead”
… Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71, and his wife, Katherine A. O’Donnell, have given Harvard $30 million, the … but also globally.” Joe O’Donnell was named a fellow of the Harvard Corporation , the University’s senior … governing board, last spring in an unprecedented expansion of that historic body. His decades of volunteer work on …
Portraying Lawrence H. Summers
… Last Friday afternoon , September 23, the official portrait of Lawrence H. Summers was unveiled during a celebratory …
Harmonious Coexister Honored
… Peter Shaw Ashton, Bullard professor of forestry emeritus, went to Tokyo in April to collect his Japan Prize in the presence of Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of …
Issue: September-October 2007