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Topping Off
… The final beam of the Science and Engineering Complex in … who have supported it, and community partners and elected officials who have enabled its creation was a powerful … the University filed regulatory plans for an Enterprise Research Campus that will bolster the remarkable …
Issue: March-April 2018
Where Credit is Due
… policies came into effect December 1. Henceforth, graduates of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard Business School (HBS), …
Issue: January-February 2003
Recruiting for Economic Diversity
… As the class of 2021 approaches Harvard Yard this August — at a … action at Harvard and elsewhere — the admissions office is busy preparing for its next application cycle. … students from families with incomes of $65,000 or less has risen from 15 percent in 2008 to 20 percent today. From 2004 …
Off Harvard Time
… happiness and reflective decision-making short shrift in the race for academic accolades and pre-professional success: focusing on the seminar papers and … of taking time away from school should come as no surprise. Students have long had the option of taking a “gap …
Issue: March-April 2008
Learning from Indian Country
… was running himself ragged directing a two-person nonprofit providing technical assistance to tribal housing … MASS Design’s Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab, an office of 18 in Santa Fe led by Kunkel and focused on … and healing in Indian Country. Kunkel, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne, had just emerged with his graduate …
Issue: May-June 2023
Centennial Medalists
… biology Susan Lindquist has said that biology is in the midst of the “greatest intellectual revolution”; and she ought to know, since she has been one of the leaders of that revolution. Through her …
Russia Case (and Dust) Settle
… Though the two official news releases announced the same agreement, their content diverged sharply regarding the settlement of a long-running lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice …
Issue: November-December 2005
Mario Vargas Llosa Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
… Mario Vargas Llosa , the acclaimed Peruvian novelist and writer, was awarded the … Harvard recognized Llosa—who served as a visiting professor of Latin American studies during the 1992-1993 academic …
Critique and Joy
… It was not until 1855 —the same year an unknown poet named Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass —that a once-famous Black poet, Phillis Wheatley, … dipping in frequently for refreshment, edification, and surprise. Although anthologies sometimes get a bad rap among …
Issue: September-October 2021
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid at a ceremony in Cambridge …
Issue: September-October 2012
Dancers Respond to “This Crazy Time”
… There’s no safe harbor from the raging elements in Faye … to physically anchor the new performance piece in fact offers no stability. Instead, the central platform rotates … at varying speeds as 10 figures crawl, writhe, and spill off its edges in a disturbing yet mesmerizing way. Is the …
Issue: November-December 2024
Cambridge 02138
… Thomas achieved a journalistic tour de force in dealingwith the complex subject of host defense mechanisms against infections.What also … of the partnership in the fall of1990. Harken's price did rise in the fall of 1991 due to sharply risingnatural gas …
Issue: March-April 2003
Making America Competitive Again
… and a failing public education system are just a few of the many serious problems the United States government can’t … economic growth. Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School Michael Porter calls this …
Issue: July-August 2021
WWI Women Remembered
… Memorial Church on November 11, Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El, New York City, spoke of the nature of liberalism, which descended "like a sunbeam" …
Issue: January-February 2002
Harvard Staff to Return August 2
… The University announced today that if conditions permit, the majority of remote workers will be authorized to return to campus on … We are all hopeful that anticipated broader availability of vaccine in the coming months will result in improved …