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Turning History's Page
… Conservator Marjorie B. Cohn, with the tools of her trade, meticulously restored the fragile … work undertaken by Marjorie B. Cohn, then the conservator of works of art on paper at the Center for Conservation and …
Issue: March-April 2002
Finishing with a Flourish
… It’s the 135th playing of The Game, Fenway Park, midway through … Tom Stewart had completed his inspirational if improbable rise from benchwarmer to team MVP and All-Ivy Honorable …
Issue: January-February 2019
A Moral Conscience for Economics
… Much of the public is interested in fixing America’s gaping level of wealth inequality, but few people feel responsible for … of tools you learn in Ec 10. And the people who were surprised were the ones who did not take Ec 10,” he jokes. …
Issue: September-October 2016
Unique Senior Housing
… During the last five years, MIT’s former director of planning, … Simha, MIT president emeritus Paul Gray, and a core group of other Harvard and MIT leaders, including Harvard Graduate …
Issue: January-February 2008
Football: Harvard 34, Georgetown 3
… In gridiron lore, Notre Dame has the Four Horsemen. Fordham boasts the Seven Blocks of Granite. Now, Harvard has the Five Road Graders. From … Ivy teams now have played one league game. The biggest surprise so far: Yale. If you haven’t yet bought your tickets …
Harvard College Term Bill Increases 3.5 Percent
… Harvard College announced today that the term bill (tuition, room and board, and fees) for … percent ($1,911) higher than the current-year level of $54,496. Undergraduate financial aid will be budgeted at … Read the news release here. … Financial-aid budget rises 5.8 percent, to $182 million … Harvard College …
Interim Agendas
… Bok and Jeremy R. Knowles are serving as president and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), respectively, on an interim …
Issue: November-December 2006
Vulnerable Patients, Quality Care
… slogan , “Medicine that matters,” Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program ( BHCHP ) serves more than 12,000 … and dental services; a pharmacy; administrative offices; and a medical respite unit. Operating around the clock, BHCHP is one of more than 240 Health Care for the Homeless programs in …
Issue: January-February 2016
Can Memory Be Related to Creative Cognition?
… Fuhgeddaboudit! Or maybe (and as many of us prefer) don’t. As it turns out, “episodic memory”—the ability to relive specific moments from past … and reminiscing about what’s happened,” says Kenan Jr. professor of psychology Daniel Schacter. “It also plays a very …
HOLLIS Improved
… Choosing the relative peace of July, when the inevitable bugs could … the University Library released a greatly improved version of the Harvard Online Library Information System (HOLLIS). …
Issue: September-October 2002
Losing a Chair
… I had left Pforzheimer House early on the morning that I would learn my time at Harvard had ended. … concern was grabbing my favorite seat at Starbucks. Most of my college papers were written from that chair, … sophomore year, when I convinced myself that I was capable of writing only in that exact spot. Luckily, my chair was …
Miserable She's Not
… She made a high-energy but graceful entrance, nothing too theatrical, sat in a director's chair at a butcherblock coffee table in this reporter's office, picked up a pot … family, from Southeast Asia through Australia, and they comprise her favorite genus. She has a hoya tattooed on her …
Issue: July-August 2003
HSPH Professor Killed in Car Accident
… Stephen Lagakos, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health …
Harvard Forward Unveils Second Overseer Slate
… ended than a new one begins. No, not Trump vs. Biden. Rather, Harvard Forward has unveiled its second slate of candidates who will petition for nomination to be elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers during next spring’s balloting. In the wake of …
“Transformative Thought” with Gloria Steinem
… The first decade of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ended on a high note with the presentation of the Radcliffe Medal to writer and organizer Gloria …