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Colleges in Crisis
… America’s colleges and universities , for years the envy of the world and still a comfort to citizens … but a shadow of what is to come. Undergraduate tuition has risen dramatically: at a 6.3 percent annual clip for nearly …
Clayton M. Chri... , Michael B. Horn
Issue: July-August 2011
Cataloging Library Needs
… Calling for a new library for the sciences and for initiatives by the Harvard College … on-line access to all collections, the library committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has issued a … collections in general. By 1998 the 11 libraries that comprise HCL had acquired about 8.3 million volumes. Space …
Gathering Strings
… When she was six years old, a harp was the most beautiful thing Elisabeth Remy Johnson had ever … Remy Johnson ’95, now the longtime principal harpist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, began a determined march … strings, which gave way to bigger and more complex versions of the instrument—a troubadour, a pedal harp—as her training …
Issue: January-February 2025
Dean Searches Debut
… Hall next June 30, President Drew Faust remains very much the University’s leader, and so she has announced searches for new deans of the Graduate School of Education (filling the vacancy that will occur when James …
Allston Options
… During the pandemic recession, it has been amazing to read regular … in biomedical start-ups, and oversubscribed initial public offerings for medical and biotech enterprises. There is money aplenty for the sector, it seems. Not …
Issue: September-October 2020
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 …
Allston Development Plans Rescaled
… Harvard today announced a major new set of recommendations for development of its land holdings in … new housing, retail establishments, and a business enterprise research campus, as well as a hotel and conference … center in a kind of spine along Western Avenue. Land in the triangle between Western Avenue and North Harvard …
Yesterday's News
… 1901 J. P. Morgan signifies his intention of donating $1 million toward the construction of new buildings at the Medical School. Grateful …
Issue: July-August 2016
Filial Fiction
… trying to put things into words.” Decades later, her father, poet Richard Wilbur, offered a paternal perspective on Ellen’s fledgling … from me—she’s a natural writer. She has a perfect sense of narrative structure that I don’t have at all; it amazes …
Issue: November-December 2008
Brevia
… Departure Alan A. Altshuler Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler , dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design since February 2005 …
Issue: January-February 2007
Enduring Connections
… I made my first major international trip as president of Harvard, and it easily ranks among the most memorable experiences I have had abroad. Alumni and … partner institutions to discuss, among many other topics of mutual interest, the role that higher education can and …
Issue: May-June 2019
Harvard Commencement to Be Virtual Again
… President Lawrence S. Bacow informed the community this morning that degree-conferring exercises for the class of 2021 will again be virtual, building upon the experience … to operate virtually again this spring comes as no real surprise. On the other hand, there are people around campus this …
Glossary for an Invisible World
… Feature Article: The Undiscovered Planet Archaea: One of three major domains, or classifications, of life, archaea are morphologically similar to bacteria, …
Issue: November-December 2007
Melton and Henderson Named University Professors
… M. Henderson have been appointed to named University Professorships. Melton, heretofore Cabot professor of the natural sciences, is also a Harvard College Professor …
America as Argentina
… It has been a rotten economic decade for the United States. Why—and can anything be done to keep the … new normal from persisting? In Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery (W.W. Norton, … the Russian and Brazilian and Turkish and Argentine crises of the late 1990s and into 2000-2001—and, in fact, the …
Issue: November-December 2011