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Lowell House Renewal to Last Two Years
… a student lounge, and more student common spaces. Until then, the Lowell community will live in swing housing for … Dorothy Austin announced last week. “It was a bit of a shock,” Eck admitted, when she learned the renewal … at Harvard and apartments in Harvard Square from the fall of 2017 through the spring of 2019, making it especially …
Between Harvard and St. Louis
… On the day of a summer 2019 car-wash fundraiser for the R.C. Striders, a junior track team based in St. Louis, … Mike Brown was once a student there. His killing by police officer Darren Wilson in 2014 ignited more than “400 days of …
Issue: May-June 2021
Problems and Promise
… in America is imposing both in its comprehensiveness and in the balance and depth of its arguments. Rather than offering a taxonomic catalog … Bok has serious concerns about many aspects of the enterprise of contemporary higher education, he does not believe …
Issue: November-December 2013
Racing Past Antarctica
… Three thousand have climbed Mount Everest; there’ve been about 500 astronauts; but fewer than 50 have … around the world. Rich Wilson ’72, M.B.A. ’82, is one of them. In 121 days spanning late 2008 and early 2009, … his autograph at the Charles de Gaulle Airport—a real surprise, for, as he explains, “when I’m at home in Marblehead, …
Issue: September-October 2013
Does Thinking Make It So?
… stand out. Consider babies in orphanages who have had all their physical needs met, yet fail to develop because they … matters in sickness and health. Judging by the millions of Americans who use mind-body modalities such as yoga, … the mind-body link in the first place? Anne Harrington, professor of the history of science and chair of the …
Issue: January-February 2009
Collaboration on Climate Change
… Continuing a busy visit to the People’s Republic of China—following an alumni and … alters ecosystems and global carbon emissions continue to rise. There is a proverb that the best time to plant a tree …
Capital-Campaign Compendium
… The schools of business, dental medicine, divinity, and … this spring. With their targets included, some $4.6 billion of the $6.5-billion Harvard Campaign’s aggregate goal has … and summer and postgraduate fellowships for social enterprise, entrepreneurship, and other pursuits; $150 million); …
Issue: July-August 2014
When Harvard Becomes “Ha Fu”
… Whenever I see throngs of Chinese tourists jostling to take pictures with the John Harvard statue, I am reminded of the Buddhist temples in China that I sometimes visited as …
African Alumni Reunite
… Founded 25 years ago, the Harvard African Students Association (HASA) celebrated … this March by inaugurating an alumni network composed of past and present HASA members. "It arose out of the need to re-establish and strengthen the professional …
Issue: May-June 2002
Poems by Richard Wilbur
… The Writer In her room at the prow of the house Where light … in the stairwell, hearing From her shut door a commotion of typewriter-keys Like a chain hauled over a gunwale. Young …
Issue: November-December 2008
Harvard’s Allston Plan Approved by BRA
… The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) voted unanimously … approved Science Center on Western Avenue, said University officials. The nine projects include: an addition to Harvard Stadium that will add indoor seating and office space; a new, larger, basketball gymnasium; a 150- to …
Off the Shelf
… The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of … in China, by Minxin Pei, Ph.D. ’91 (Harvard, $35). A professor of government at Claremont McKenna details the …
Issue: March-April 2024
FAS Dean Details $220-Million Budget Gap; Working Groups to Address "Reshaping" Academic Activities
… April 15, 3:00 p.m. At a "town hall" meeting in Sanders Theatre on the afternoon of April 14--held in place of the regularly scheduled … is able to do in its core academic and intellectual enterprise. Passively awaiting better economic conditions is not …
Managing Harvard: A New Deal?
… note: President Derek Bok, who wrote annual reports on the University during his service from 1971 to 1991, did so again at the end of this year of interim service. The report begins with a review of the …
Issue: July-August 2007
Harvard’s Undergraduate Council Kerfuffle
… After 40 years, the Undergraduate Council (UC)—the Harvard College student … voting period that concluded in late March, 76 percent of nearly 4,000 voting students decided to dismantle their … current representative body and replace it with a new form of government: the Harvard Undergraduate Association (HUA). …