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Climate-Change Changes
… In late February, some 10 months after the University announced its 2050 “net-zero” goal for … document detailed initial progress in the multiyear process of determining how to get data about GHG emissions produced … billion) was invested in fossil-fuel commodities or enterprises. Including indirect exposure (assets held by external …
Issue: May-June 2021
Commencement Confetti
… NOBLE BEAST Professional bomb-sniffer Tara, a two-year-old … golden/lab/vizsla from Holland, made organizers breathe easier by checking out Memorial Hall just before the … (scallop-and-shrimp salad, then horseradish-encrusted filet of beef with a mushroom port sauce, accompanied by a Bach …
Issue: July-August 2005
Allston Plan and Schedule Endorsed by Harvard Corporation
… In a September 19 letter to the Harvard and Allston communities released today, … N. Lapp announced the Harvard Corporation’s endorsement of the University's Allston Work Team recommendations … housing and a retail center; and to create an “enterprise research” park with a hotel and conference center. The …
A Harvard Startup on Shark Tank
… Family histories are often passed down by word of mouth—imperfect, fleeting, and fragmented. A memory shared at the dinner table, a story retold at a holiday gathering, a …
Klarman Construction
… Klarman Construction: A mid January view of Klarman Hall, the new auditorium-conference-convening complex scheduled … or joint events with engineering and applied sciences professors and students, with whom HBS is already building …
Issue: March-April 2018
Starting Up at Harvard
… in New York and moved back to Cambridge with thoughts of becoming an entrepreneur. Little did he know just how … start-up was going be. Jeff Behrens '89 with Clipper, the mongrel he and his wife, Lori Rutter '89, adopted from … option is to become more like MIT's long-established Enterprise Forum, a nonprofit organization that promotes new …
Divestment Slate Achieves Place on Overseer Ballot
… The Harvard Forward (HF)-backed slate of petition candidates … has been certified for the ballot, following a tally by the Office of the Governing Boards (OGB). To qualify, the five …
“Invisible” No Longer
… “You’re going to see a lot of diversity in the room,” Cassandra Fradera, A.L.M. ’17, co-president of the Harvard Latinx Student Alliance (HLSA), said on the …
Growing Pains
… The film Rent Free, which premiered last June at the Tribeca Film Festival, opens with a shot of a sunlit apartment: white walls and hardwood floors, … his own in. “What? My phone’s at 5 percent,” he says matter-of-factly. Jordan glances at Ben’s screen and gripes: “Can …
Issue: January-February 2025
Campus, Interrupted
… ready to be molded. Correspondingly, it seemed as though the University was ready to subsume me; by catering to … to since March 2020. Initially, it was awkward. Our ways of relating to each other were grounded in expired … was back, walking in the other direction. I braced for a reprise of our awkwardness before he stopped and said, “I am so …
Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella
Issue: November-December 2021
Can Women Stop War?
… When Vanessa Lievano Gutierrez moved to Colombia in the late 1980s, the situation was dire: armed conflict raged … One night, her mother was forced to throw herself on top of her children to protect them from shattering glass when … has become: “I am part of that narrative of women who have risen through the ranks—64 percent of our Congress is …
Football: Harvard 28-New Hampshire 23
… football fans might have been permitted a sinking feeling of déjà vu during the fourth quarter at the Stadium last Friday night. The … to cut the home team’s lead to 28-23 and now the Crimson offense was charged with running out the clock. The previous …
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 …
Avant-garde, Post-Romantic
… There is nothing casual about the music of composer Hannah … “With any theft, your natural impulse is to want some form of retaliation,” she recalls. “That, to me, felt really …
Issue: January-February 2013
Over and Done
… Each life, obviously, confronts an ultimate exit. But there are plenty of lesser exits—departures, if you will—along the way. In … Straus and Giroux, $26), Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Fisher professor of education, deploys her skills as sociologist and …
Issue: September-October 2012