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Harvard Files Institutional Master Plan with Boston
… After more than two years of intensive planning and community discussions, the University has filed a 10-year Institutional Master Plan … Authority (BRA), detailing 1.4 million square feet of projects that administrators say “provide a long-term …
Brevia
… ARTS FIRST, finally The annual campus celebration of performance and creativity … and receive his medal on April 28. Find details at https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts. Supreme Court-Bound Having lost …
Issue: March-April 2022
Mental Health Services Examined
… care--a more accessible and tightly coordinated network of services--a provost-appointed committee has issued a … with recommendations for University-wide improvements. "The years of late adolescence and early adulthood mark not only the …
Pioneering HMS Burns Specialist John Burke Has Died
… Benedict professor of surgery emeritus John F. Burke , M.D. '51, who in 1969 … and biological engineering Joannis Yannas ’57 that led to the development of the first commercially reproducible, …
Cambridge 02138
… Art, Science, Culture, Economics Thanks for the wonderful essay by E.O. Wilson ( “On the Origins of the Arts” ) on Chauvet Cave. Its 30,000-year-old … are conservative rather than liberal. But I was surprised by the crude vitriol of the “Fie on Al Franken” …
Issue: July-August 2012
Rebecca Henderson: Does Capitalism Need to be Reimagined?
… Climate change is out of control, leading many people to question whether it isn’t just fossil fuels, but our entire economic … vision for recalibrating capitalism to meet the linked crises of climate change and extreme inequality is a …
Cambridge 02138
… Taxing Carbon It was exciting to see the cover story “Taxing Carbon (and boosting the economy)” … emissions. However, I would like to question two points of Professor Dale Jorgensen’s plan. First, he states that … approaches to climate change. I was agreeably surprised to see the interview with Dale Jorgensen . I have …
Issue: November-December 2014
Summers Leaving White House, Returning to Harvard
… The White House announced tonight that former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers, director of the National Economic Council, would step down from his position and return to the University at the end of the year, as has been rumored. Summers, who served as …
Christiane Amanpour to Speak at Class Day
… The Class Day speaker for 2010 will be CNN's Christiane … won nine Emmy awards and has several times been named one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes magazine. An alumna of the University of Rhode Island, she has worked at CNN …
Free Speech on Campus
… On Tuesday evening , one week after the Congressional hearing that prompted demands for … their support for her continued leadership, a group of scholars gathered at the Radcliffe Institute for a long-planned discussion of campus speech that had suddenly taken on new and urgent …
A Dean’s Adieu
… a morning conversation on May 18, Claudine Gay reflected on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) priorities and progress during … that can become somewhat overshadowed by the demands of coping with the pandemic and the news of her selection …
Harvard Management Company Undertakes Sweeping Change
… The new president of Harvard Management Company (HMC), N.P. … operations, including: outsourcing the management of several classes of assets—in effect, shifting away from … fund-like investments managed internally at HMC now comprise a very small percentage of the overall endowment. We …
Pay—and Performance?
… For more than a decade, some members of the College class of 1969 have questioned the University’s compensation for …
Issue: January-February 2015
Football: Harvard 24, Lafayette 14
… There were 7,177 people at the Stadium on Saturday to watch … give or take 100,000, than the throng lining the banks of the nearby Charles River to view the Head of the Charles regatta. Picking up on the theme of the day, …
Judith Palfrey
… On a ward at children’s hospital, the head of the division of general pediatrics is worrying about several cases of …