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New Overseers and Elected Directors Announced
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
Faculty Finance Frustrations
… The last regular Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting … agenda. On one hand, the faculty sentiments come as no surprise. FAS only recently introduced better planning for …
Issue: July-August 2012
Faust Book a Contender for National Book Award
… This Republic of Suffering , University president Drew Faust's account of the Civil War's staggering death toll and how it changed …
Affirmative Amicus
… Continuing a long tradition of University leadership on diversity in admissions, Harvard filed an amicus curiae brief in the University of Michigan cases scheduled for argument before the Supreme …
Issue: May-June 2003
Plans for Allston ArtLab Move Forward
… workspaces and planned sciences and engineering complex. The University first announced the project on October 16, … the Boston Planning Development Authority. On Thursday, officials presented design details to community residents at … space at the center (for exhibitions or performances) and office, workshop, and video sound spaces surrounding it. …
Leaves That Lunch
… T he most famous carnivore of the plant kingdom, the Venus flytrap, lures insects to its … to catch a fly. Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Gordon McKay professor of applied mathematics and mechanics, leading a …
Issue: May-June 2005
An Intellectual Entente
… “Stamp collectors” was the derisive term future Nobel laureate James Watson applied to Harvard biology professors involved in classification and anatomy in the … virtually unexplored world of microbes. Will we solve the crises of next hundred years? asked Krulwich. “Yes, if we are …
Research on Hold
… Hours after the federal government froze $2.2 billion in research … secure emergency funding, pausing work, and bracing for layoffs. Among the first to be affected was Given professor of immunology and infectious diseases Sarah Fortune, …
Summers in Summary
… Lawrence H. Summers brought to the Harvard presidency prodigious energy and a penchant for … and around the world, “I’m convinced that, when the history of our period is written three centuries from now…the major … nations come together, and the transformative effect of life-sciences research—particularly in its biomedical …
Issue: September-October 2006
Slow Learners
… There continues to be much ado about online learning, … in higher education (see page 64). But other kinds of learning remain the dominant, most effectual form of education. In “The Power of Patience” (page 40), Agassiz …
Issue: November-December 2013
Three Former Harvard Football Stars Featured in NFL Playoffs
… weekend, three former Crimson tight ends—Kyle Juszczyk ’ 13 of the San Francisco 49ers (who these days is a fullback), … the fourth round by the Baltimore Ravens. Murphy is not surprised by the way each has established himself. “They all had …
“Our John Harvard”
… During its 150th-anniversary celebration in December, the Harvard Club of New York unveiled Everett Raymond Kinstler’s portrait of John P. (Jack) Reardon Jr. ’60. In accompanying remarks, …
Issue: March-April 2016
Harvard on Housing
… has pledged financial support for affordable housing in the two cities. At a news conference held November 10 before … mayors, state representatives, city councilors, and leaders of nonprofit-housing groups, President Neil L. Rudenstine … double the national average, and that rental rates have risen 64 percent in Boston in the past three years (to …
What Harvard’s Senior Executives Earned Last Year
… The University today released its tax return for nonprofit … the compensation paid to the president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC, which is …
A Crossroads in Biomedicine?
… by study, experiment by experiment—so that each new piece of knowledge rests on a firm foundation of preceding work. Discovering that influential pieces of research cannot, in fact, be replicated by other researchers in other labs is akin to discovering a …