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A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
… Earth Day encourages all of us to reflect on how we can contribute to building a … Cambridge is known worldwide as a center for innovation of all kinds, including net-zero-energy construction—the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s “HouseZero” being a …
A New Way
… Though it is not the case for an increasing number of alums, many of us can still remember a time before the internet. When …
Issue: July-August 2021
Sarah Thomas Will Also Head FAS Libraries
… Sarah Thomas, vice President for the Harvard Library, has just been named to a second post: Larsen librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In this additional role, reporting to Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith, she will oversee …
Star Turn
… As newcomers to a Crimson graduation may not realize, the prize speaking parts in the morning ceremony belong to … representing Harvard Divinity School at the end of its bicentennial-year celebration (the Graduate English Address). They are profiled below, and in the Gazette . They convened for a …
A Clear Vision
… As the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), Paul J. Finnegan ’75, … it. In the meantime, we’re lucky to have the guiding hand of Derek Bok, an experienced president.” (Bok, who headed …
Issue: September-October 2006
Nobel Duo
… Two Harvardians have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their contributions to scholarship and society this year. Furer professor of economics Oliver Hart won the Prize in Economic … contract cannot possibly predict every scenario that might arise between an employer and an employee, or a patient and …
Harvard Design Dean to Step Down
… Mohsen Mostafavi, who was appointed dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in August 2007 and took office the …
Taking Shape
… A (snowless) late-winter aerial view of the Fogg Art Museum reconstruction shows a huge crane—put in … it is now scheduled for fall 2014. … An aerial view of the Fogg art Museum reconstruction. … 34701 … Update on …
Issue: May-June 2012
Pliable Paradigms
… If ever someone understood the challenges of changing people's minds, it was Charles … 1830s, Darwin spent the next 20 years developing his theory of evolution. He was slow to publish his ideas. Because they …
Issue: March-April 2004
Science Simulator
… “The thing I enjoyed about physics,” says Kathy Perkins ’92, … use it.” Today, Perkins combines that love for the elegance of physics with a desire to make a difference. As director of the nonprofit PhET Interactive Simulations, she oversees …
Issue: July-August 2012
An Uncertain Future for Harvard Square
… SIX YEARS AGO, this magazine ran an article reflecting on the many changes Harvard Square had undergone in the past 25 years: the losses of The Tasty Sandwich Shop and the Wursthaus, as well as the … decline in independently run bookstores with the closing of the Globe Corner Bookstore and Curious George Books and …
Law School Class Address
… Listen to the live audio recording. … Speech as delivered by Guido Calabresi, U.S. Court of Appeals judge and former dean of Yale Law School, for the Law School Class Exercises Address. Dear friends, it is …
Rebuilt?
… Last March, Lavietes Pavilion, the home of Harvard basketball, took on an unusual feel . … Hemenway Gymnasium. Meanwhile, the coaches moved their offices to trailers, where they squeezed into cramped …
Catherine Dulac
… “The sense of smell was very poorly understood,” says professor of molecular and cellular biology Catherine Dulac, until a seminal 1991 paper on odorant …
Issue: September-October 2005
Down and Out in Paris and Boston
… Outgoing North Carolina senator John Edwards wasn't the first person to notice the Second America, which he … and many Americans in the first country are getting weary of subsidizing and explaining away the deepening failure of the second." If there are two Americas, the "failure" of …
Issue: January-February 2005