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Behind the Scenes: Writing About Walter Johnson and St. Louis
… from Harvard College , I came home to St. Louis to reports of mass protests erupting in Ferguson, the suburb just north of the city that would soon become world-famous. …
Yesterday’s News
… 1934 The College funds five $1,000 fellowships for prospective … R. Frye ’40, reports: “If Harvard ever was composed solely of the ‘upper crust’ of society, it is not so composed now”: the Student …
Issue: January-February 2019
Attacking Aids
… The quest for an AIDS vaccine is a compelling story. … geopolitical conferences, even a presidential State of the Union address. The topic has spawned at least two … a medical writer and journalist, was formerly an editor of the Harvard Health Letter. We are told on the book jacket …
Issue: January-February 2002
Spring Spectacle
… The weather gods obviously got the memo late. As the … jumped to a near-record 90 degrees. Concluding the prayers of the day, Bernard Steinberg, president of Harvard Hillel, prefaced himself to address the Reverend …
Issue: July-August 2010
A "Pause" and Progress in FAS
… dean Michael D. Smith explained his approach to leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), with important implications for … would “pause to plan.” With the faculty ranks having risen 19 percent (from 596 positions to 712) between mid …
Issue: July-August 2008
Dramatis Personae
… he was senior vice president, and five years as president of Data Race William Bossert ’59, Ph.D. ’63, JF ’66…Arnold professor of science emeritus, creator of the General Education course Nat Sci 110, “Automatic … and entrepreneurship and Murchison Fellow of free enterprise, Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at …
Issue: September-October 2020
Leaner Libraries
… The pilot project with Google announced by the Harvard … Library in December is a small step toward a future of possibilities in which almost any book in any Harvard … Until recently, subventions from FAS and the president had risen annually by an inflation index (determined by the …
Issue: March-April 2005
A Veterans Day Salute
… President Drew Faust and General George W. Casey Jr., Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, the University paid tribute on November 11 to …
Campuses Under Construction
… At least for members of the Boston-area building trades, the recession and Harvard’s … photo gallery above) included the wholesale reconstruction of the Kennedy School campus, beginning with excavation of …
Issue: September-October 2015
Heather Henriksen
… “This might be a little in the weeds , but trust me, it’s cool.” Heather Henriksen is … antimicrobials, stain repellents, water repellents”—out of campus buildings. “I’m a bit obsessed with this.” It’s her job to be: Henriksen directs the Office for Sustainability , a post she took in 2008, a few …
Issue: January-February 2017
How Harvard’s Professional Schools Will Cope with the Economic Crisis
… In the wake of initial financial guidance and principles for … budgets disseminated by President Lawrence S. Bacow and the central administration on April 13, Harvard’s faculties … come to campus . These first messages, along with Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean Claudine Gay’s statement of …
George Reisner
… to temples, tombs, settlements, and fortresses along the Nile. One of Harvard’s first and most accomplished archaeologists, … came to Harvard from his native Indianapolis. By the end of his career, he had dug 23 archaeological sites in Egypt …
Issue: November-December 2022
Rare Titan Arum About to Bloom at Harvard for the First Time
… A rare titan arum ( Amorphophallus titanum ), housed in the greenhouse used by Harvard’s department of organismic and evolutionary biology , is set to bloom in … "corpse plant," due to its fetid odor, which resembles that of decomposing meat. Although in full bloom it appears as an …
Learning About Teaching
… Teaching and Learning” ( March-April, page 42 ), about the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ renewed focus on pedagogy and … best by doing things and tying book-learning to the enterprise at hand, and Harvard made that happen for me, getting …
Issue: May-June 2011
Secret Errors Kill
… There is a story told about the early years of IBM, when an … avoided. To the unhappy employee, this seemed like a form of slow torture. Finally he asked why Watson didn't just get …