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Raised Voices
… Six days after helping to bring the community together at Harvard's observance of September 11 (see preceding page), President Lawrence H. … here...not all perspectives are equally valid," a theme reprised at Commencement ("Openness does not mean supposing …
Issue: November-December 2002
Money Matters
… An updated, second edition of Managing Harvard’s Resources —with reports from the University’s treasurer, James F. Rothenberg, and chief … of work envisioned. Phase I of the project, it says, “comprises its first 4 million square feet”—equal to …
Issue: March-April 2007
Highbrow Lingerie
… Lingerie and literature don’t come together that often, but when naming her intimates brand, … pieces. “I’m still learning, but I’ve been surprised at how many people end up buying the crazy things.” As …
Issue: May-June 2010
Times Columnist Likes Katz, Goldin Take on Education and Economy
… New York Times columnist David Brooks likes The Race between Education and Technology , the new book by Allison professor of economics Lawrence F. Katz and Lee professor of economics …
Light Makes a Comeback
… high-powered light microscopes bear little resemblance to the iconic instruments of high-school biology labs. This revolution began in the 1950s with the development of confocal microscopes. Rather than flooding an object with …
Issue: May-June 2008
Kosher Delights
… LaRochelle, J.D. ’96, catered a 250-guest Jewish wedding in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. The bride, the daughter of a Reform rabbi, was a vegetarian and many of the groom’s …
Issue: March-April 2011
Designing Good Lives
… MASS Design’s domestic initiatives address the basic elements of a good life: housing, health, food, and sustainability. … things are consolidating, and so new solutions need to arise,” he said. That work takes its inspiration from MASS …
Issue: May-June 2023
Developing a Diverse Faculty
… “Harvard is at the beginning of a very long journey,” writes senior vice … findings for academic year 2006 (see chart): Women comprise less than a quarter of the tenured faculty in 10 of 13 …
Issue: September-October 2006
Law School Locale
… Harvard Law School (HLS) is carefully weighing the pros and cons of building a new campus for itself in Allston. A "locational options" committee of seven faculty members and one administrator is …
Issue: March-April 2002
Strategy—and a Celebration
… Broadly Speaking, the Harvard governance reforms unveiled in December 2010 had … was strengthening the Corporation’s fiduciary oversight of the University, in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial … universities, research institutes, commercial enterprises, and often fractious hospitals? And what is the real …
Issue: September-October 2022
Chapter & Verse
… Gerard Lenthall wishes to learn the identity of "Garamaz," a 1938 reference. Thomas Lemann … something very similar. Matthew Schuerman seeks the source of a simile: "The blood of children ran through the streets …
What Goes Unseen
… Around a dozen students were already seated by the time I made it over to the grassy clearing in Harvard … encampment that stood sandwiched between two of our school’s most iconic administrative buildings. I was … me was someone I admired fiercely, in large part because of her work in cultivating student-led spaces that afforded …
Cambridge 02138
… Mental Health Thank you for “ No Going Back to Normal ” and the compelling picture it provided of the very real crisis in youth mental health and the … “affirmative action” to Harvard College as a noble enterprise. It is not. It is discrimination based upon color. …
Issue: September-October 2022
Three Harvardians among Time’s 100
… "Time 100" issue, which lists 100 people "who most affect the world" includes three Harvard faculty members. One is Gottlieb professor of law Elizabeth Warren, who chairs the Congressional …
A Dressing That Pulls Wounds Shut
… have developed a mechanically active wound dressing (the first of its kind, to the best of their knowledge), according to a paper published …