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… Bridging a Graduate Gap A scientist follows an historian of science, as James M. Hogle and Doreen Hogle succeed … I. Mendelsohn and Mary B. Anderson as master and co-master of Dudley House, the Harvard Yard center for students enrolled in the …
Issue: September-October 2002
What This Country Needs
… Never mind the five-cent cigar. What this country needs is a good economic bull-detector program—along the lines of the faculty that Ernest Hemingway famously advised … is willing. At this time of global and domestic economic crises—with their concurrent political and diplomatic …
Issue: January-February 2010
An Educated Core
… likely to become central issues for colleges in a way that they haven’t been for a long time,” wrote Nicholas Lemann ’76 in early 2016 in The Chronicle of Higher Education . Past experience as dean of Columbia’s … a broad “common curriculum.” In its present form, that comprises 10 courses: Literature & Humanities (L&H) 1 and 2 and …
Issue: July-August 2017
Harvard Chooses Allston Commercial Zone Developer
… The University’s Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC) … ’91, has been designated to develop the initial 14 acres of a 36-acre “enterprise research campus” along Western Avenue, opposite Harvard …
John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
"Harvard Is Not Invulnerable" to Shocks: Faust's Sober Financial Message
… a letter to faculty, students, and staff, highlighting the "extraordinary turbulence still roiling the world’s … economy" and outlining the "implications for us at Harvard" of the "global economic crisis." Characterizing the … a broad commitment to maintaining the basic research enterprise, in all fields, and continuing "significant investments …
Acquisitions and Holdings
… The University’s extraordinary library system, among the … grew by nearly a quarter-million items—exclusive of additions to the holdings of microfilms (5.5 million), manuscripts (many millions), …
Issue: May-June 2004
Immersed in Africa
… malaria infection. Vertical planters that enable residents of a Nairobi slum to grow their own food. These examples, a handful chosen from many, demonstrate the outcomes of Harvard undergraduates’ projects in developing countries …
Issue: November-December 2009
Football: Harvard 17, Holy Cross 27
… Well, there goes your undefeated season. That was not only the only mark of perfection that was a casualty of the Harvard football team’s 27-17 loss to Holy Cross this …
Generous Givers
… Donations to the University totaled $590 million in the fiscal year ended … The previous peak, $658 million in 2001, came at the end of the $2.6-billion University Campaign. (Unlike the higher … in Harvard’s annual financial report, the development-office figures discount capital gifts for life income funds …
Issue: November-December 2005
“I Want to Hear About You”
… Zoom—by talking about vulnerability, human connection, and the coronavirus’s disruptions of everyday routines. “There’s not much to recommend a pandemic, but it has made more dimensions of our lives visible to one another and created …
Faculty Composition
… Harvard's faculty consists of both tenured professors and "ladder faculty" (associate and assistant professors), and other teaching faculty (professors of practice, lecturers, …
Issue: March-April 2005
Raiders Rehabilitated
… Gordon gekko, the antihero of the 1987 movie Wall Street , epitomizes the … his career studying those sectors, he says even he was surprised by the findings. “If you read something in a business …
Issue: July-August 2008
Harvard Discloses Top Earners
… The University’s annual tax filings covering the fiscal year … disclosures released today, include the earnings of the most highly compensated Harvard administrators and … in nontaxable benefits (including the personal value of University-provided housing as well as health and other …
The “Dangers and Duties that Lie Ahead”
… education is endangered,” declared Porter University Professor and Harvard president emerita Drew Gilpin Faust during a forceful oration Tuesday morning at the 232nd Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises in Sanders … “are fearsome.” She shared two poems that she said had arisen from “this year that we’ve endured together” as a …
Kindness Is “a Powerful and Subversive Thing”
… Reverent and self-deprecating —but always eclectic—the Harvard Divinity School’s Multireligious Commencement Service might well have been the loftiest, and yet the least pompous, celebration on the … come in” (and, in a later stanza, coaxed, “Don’t be afraid of some change”). Calling for two invocations, three …