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Flags Honor Veterans Mental Health Awareness
… As part of the first-ever Veterans Mental Health Awareness Week, the Harvard College organization Harvard Undergraduates … (HUHV) has placed 349 American flags on the lawn in front of Memorial Hall in honor of U.S. service members who took …
2015 Dietary Recommendations Cover New Ground
… on optimal diets than for its policy suggestions—and some of the authors joined a symposium hosted at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) yesterday to discuss their work. …
Harvard Discloses Administrator and Investment Manager Compensation
… 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023), including information on the earnings of University leaders, and the accompanying Harvard Management Company (HMC) disclosure of senior employees’ compensation for calendar year 2022. …
Deval Patrick and Drew Faust Address Harvard Commencement
… The Afternoon Exercises of Harvard Commencement (this 364th edition, and its predecessors) are officially the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). …
Chapter & Verse
… Dennis De Witt inquires about the origin of the phrase “wretched excess.” He has found … in its true season.” William Benemann seeks the source of a motto tattooed on the arm of a Massachusetts sailor in …
Issue: January-February 2017
Earthy Elegance
… serving rustic French (and some Italian) fare, is the product of chef/owner Laura Brennan's 20-year love affair with food. … time. She not only pulls together interesting combinations of foods, like green apple and melted leek gratin or prune …
Issue: March-April 2005
"Crossing Boundaries"
… Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become … as remarkable a past as this one. And now our shared enterprise is to make Harvard’s future even more remarkable than …
Issue: March-April 2007
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. The class of 1921 graduate …
Issue: September-October 2006
Harvard Dives Into Data Science
… The two faculty leaders of a new data-science initiative … the University expects to attract to its Allston “enterprise research campus.” (For an overview, see Harvard … Nohria wrote. And he pointed out, “An Allston enterprise zone that realizes the potential of the …
Art Under Wraps
… The bronze Large Four Piece Reclining Figure by Henry Moore that has reclined on the grass in front of Lamont Library for almost 20 years is now hidden for the winter in waterproof swaddling clothes. Harry Miller Co. Inc. of Boston …
Brevia
… Bicontinental Tree His Holiness the Dalai Lama spoke about “Educating the Heart” to a … Church on April 30. A central theme was the Buddhist virtue of compassion, even for those considered “your so-called … the Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Dalai Lama joined those schools’ deans, …
Issue: July-August 2009
Conceiving a Curriculum
… studied fledgling ventures. That tradition today influences the broader curriculum, too. Professor Myles L. Mace introduced an elective "Management of … become involved in founding or running their own enterprises a decade or two after graduation, following experience …
Harvard's Contribution to Baseball
… Harvard may be at the forefront of innovation in nanotechnology and stem … as well. Wired magazine has a story on the patenting of the catcher's mask, 130 years ago this month, by Fred …
Cities and Suburbs
… Can our cities be made livable for all kinds of citizens, or are they condemned to be office ghettoes and entertainment zones … but none of those really wonderful, serendipitous surprises could have happened in a place like New York without a …
Installation Roistering
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." The first installation of a Harvard president about which we know details--told by historian of Harvard Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Ph.D. '12, Litt.D. '36, …
Issue: November-December 2001