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Breaking Even in a Bleak Year?
… Despite a second consecutive year of reduced revenues—as the pandemic closed many executive-education programs, for … Hollister, vice president for finance and chief financial officer, disclosed the newly promising outlook on April 27, …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: July-August 2021
Frontiers
… A Disruptor, Decoded A chemical plasticizer, produced by the millions of tons annually for use in clothing, shampoo, carpets, … linked to birth defects and male infertility. Now a team of researchers led by Harvard Medical School professor of …
Issue: March-April 2020
Dandy "Bandy" Captain from Harvard
… The sport of "bandy" resembles ice hockey, but uses a ball, … and covers about twice as much ice with 11 players instead of six. It has an international presence, especially in … and Scandinavia; bandy followers even hope to add it to the Olympic Winter Games schedule in the future. Yet the …
Michael Ignatieff
… Unlike the world, the Kennedy School office of Michael Ignatieff, Ph.D. '76, is immaculately tidy. "It's …
Issue: March-April 2004
Arts Grants Put to Good Use
… Thanks to two grants that recognized the importance of the textual raw materials of art history, the Harvard Art Museums have cataloged …
Upstairs, Downstairs
… When the janitors and dining hall staff arrive at 6 a.m., the … Dutch still life: blue plastic trays piled on top of one another, cups running over, remnants of yesterday's … another student," said John D'Amore '02, a junior who has risen through dorm crew's ranks to become a captain. "You …
Chapter & Verse
… Sheila Berg would like a source for a quotation she heard at the time of John Kennedy Jr.'s death that spoke of sand and pebbles on the beach and Truro. Ann Mantell …
Excellence
… One of the unexpected pleasures of my new role is reading emails and letters from individuals who want nothing more than to share their hopes with the president of Harvard. There are, as you …
Issue: March-April 2019
Year One
… The Harvard community learned at least two things about … During a conversation at Massachusetts Hall a couple of weeks after Commencement, Bacow said, “This was a year in … he spoke at forums on the economy and on social enterprises at the Business School; a Kennedy School citizenship …
Issue: September-October 2019
Scholarly Sale
… The $50-million challenge fund established by the University Development Office in February 2006 to stimulate the endowment of professorships has, through early July, yielded 16 …
Issue: September-October 2007
Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Receives $400-Million Endowment Gift
… has given a $400-million endowment gift to Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)—the largest in University history, and the second enormous … likely to be based at an academic building scheduled to rise soon at the corner of North Harvard Street and Western …
Harvard Portrait: Judith Grant Long
… Grant Long, M.D.S. ’95, Ph.D. ’02, RI ’12, associate professor of urban planning at the Graduate School of Design . The “something else” …
Issue: September-October 2013
Harvard's "Wider Communities"
… The new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Yuki Moore Laurenti … to reach beyond the existing networks and formal structures of alumni organizations,” she explains, “and to the wider …
Issue: September-October 2005
Overcommitted Undergraduates?
… R. Lewis begins his annual report on Harvard College for the previous academic year (available at … academic credentials and lamenting the inadequacy of the academic advising provided to them (see " Amending … measured by standard achievement tests. Mean scores have risen, and the dispersion around those means has shrunk. …
Issue: May-June 2002
Will Harvard’s Campus Reopen for Fall?
… As universities nationwide consider the options for reopening campuses this fall in light of the coronavirus pandemic, Alan M. Garber, the provost—who … that will shape Harvard’s decisions, and those of its schools. It is more a road map than a list of …