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Gifts That Keep Giving
… "A gift to Harvard is a gift to the world," declared Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, L.H.D. '03, the longtime chairman of the Committee on University Resources, in presenting his annual report at the HAA meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Among the donations that Harvard wants …
Issue: July-August 2004
Poet and Renaissance Scholar Launch Commencement Week
… Sheltered from the morning’s intermittent mist, an audience in Sanders … celebrations. Schiff, who teaches in the English department of the University of Iowa, read four poems: one from her … could, I would pore over the whole, vast, messy enterprise of culture as if it were my birthright.” He added, …
Morning Prayers: All Creatures
… or an hour outside our usual work and lives to consider the larger meaning of what we do. It is also a place where we think beyond our … children, and it is in one sense a quite simple matter of human self-interest and survival. But it is also a …
Issue: November-December 2008
Recipes for Thriving Cities
… center for international trade? Ricardo Hausmann, professor of the practice of economic development and director of …
Issue: September-October 2017
High-Tech Art Sleuthing
… Call them art detectives. Using scientific methods, the … involves the self-taught American artist James Castle. Profoundly deaf, perhaps autistic, he never learned to speak … creating compelling, intimate works, including hundreds of drawings using only woodstove-soot mixed with his own …
Issue: September-October 2011
Grolier Reincarnated
… Tucked into a single room behind a window in Harvard Square, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop is to the world of bookselling what La Sainte Chapelle is to Gothic … the last three decades with the unorthodox business plan of selling only poetry. Today, its one of only two …
Issue: November-December 2006
Dunster House First to Be Fully Renovated
… Harvard announced today that Dunster will become the first of its 12 undergraduate Houses to be fully renewed … alone are expected to cost more than $1 billion . Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith and Harvard …
Coming Soon: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Two
… Following the enthusiastic response to our first season of Ask a Harvard Professor , we’re delighted to bring you season two —focusing …
A Startling Achievement in Regenerative Medicine
… Douglas Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, has figured out how to transform one type of cell in a living animal into another, using a new process …
Scholars’ Haven
… Noel Twagiramungu won’t speak about the assassination attempt—the event that drove him from … as a fellow with the Scholars At Risk (SAR) program, which offers one-year positions at colleges and universities to … government, Noel Twagiramungu says, meets criticism of the long-term imprisonment of probable innocents by …
Issue: May-June 2006
Faust Tells Congress: Don't Downsize Research
… morning, urging lawmakers not to cut—or even level-fund—the federal budget for scientific research grants at this critical juncture. The leveling off of grant funding through the National Institutes of Health …
Who Was Lincoln, Really?
… In American lore, the name Abraham Lincoln stands for many things: gifted orator; champion of black rights; courageous leader who kept a bitterly … Lincoln the man has gotten lost, says Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. On Monday evening, with Gates …
Update: Harvard versus Penn
… The escape artists from Cambridge did it again at … Ryan Barnes came up with a pass interception—his third of the game—to preserve a 24-21 Crimson victory. Harvard now has an overall record of 8-1 and is 5-1 in Ivy League play. Half of the team's …
Lessons from Libya?
… In the spring of 2007, this magazine published a brief news item observing that "Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter, perhaps the world's preeminent corporate strategist, is advising the …
New Vistas in 3-D
… [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_T9XDIffU] Press the "play" button in the video screen above to take a guided tour of the 3-D PDF with Alyssa Goodman. Then explore the Perseus … or other PDF viewer such as Preview. Download the Adobe software free of charge here . The image that loads by …
Issue: May-June 2009