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Deconstructionism
… Interior demolition of the Fogg Art Museum proceeded during the early summer, … were shored up (and that doorway on the upper left of the Fogg structure became a dysfunctional exit). …
Issue: September-October 2010
Brevia
… and CEO Rob Speyer ’91, has been chosen to develop the initial 14 acres of the 36-acre “enterprise research campus” along Western Avenue, opposite Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2020
Name Game
… The University Campaign is one for the record books: by far … successful such effort ever conducted by an institution of higher education. Administrators, deans, volunteers, and … campaign looms. As a service, therefore, Harvard Magazine offers the following excerpt from "Name That Campaign," by …
New Nobel Laureate Discusses His Life and Work
… Wednesday afternoon, Martin Karplus ’51, Richards professor of chemistry emeritus, spoke about his career trajectory and the research that earned him and two colleagues the 2013 …
Penny S. Pritzker ’81 Nominated as Commerce Secretary
… to nominate Penny S. Pritzker ’81 as U.S. Secretary of Commerce —long rumored, as The New York Times reported last winter —may have the local effect of depriving Harvard of one of its leading supporters—and …
Re-remembering Juneteenth
… compose what would become her recent book On Juneteenth , the Loeb University Professor and Pulitzer-winning historian felt her customary … Writing about a holiday first celebrated in her home state of Texas, and created to commemorate African Americans’ …
Faculty Room Facelift
… The Faculty Room, the soaring second-floor space at the center of University Hall—designed by Charles Bulfinch, A.B. 1781 … in exchange for tuition payments for son Thomas, class of 1814—an early legacy!) and completed in 1815—is justly …
Issue: March-April 2025
Exploring Exoplanets
… Is there life beyond Earth? Likely no question excites greater … In fact, during the past 10 years—following discovery of the first exoplanet, orbiting 51 Pegasi, in 1995—“We’ve … discovered indirectly. Although a star like the Sun comprises almost all the mass of any planetary group, the …
Issue: May-June 2013
Committing to equal opportunity
… A central purpose of Harvard University is to do what we can to ensure that … America has a chance. Such a concept could be considered a lofty ideal with little meaning. Yet this is as important as … in higher education, and ours is a distinguished history: the concept of financial aid, the initial scholarships …
Issue: January-February 2005
Some Changes
… On hearing of the death of Anthony Lewis ’48, NF ’57, on March 25, we turned, … at http://harvardmag.com/lewis ) and his early letters to the magazine. They exhibit the strong writing and clear …
Issue: May-June 2013
NLRB Orders a New Graduate Student Union Election
… The National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) Boston office has … new graduate student union election—invalidating the result of last November’s election , in which more students voted …
Swashbuckling National Champions
… The Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams combined to win … 53) dethroned defending champion Penn State—winner of nine of the 17 NCAA fencing titles award-ed to date—by …
Issue: May-June 2006
Five Questions with Captain Shane McLaughlin ’25
… from Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, and a resident of Leverett House, McLaughlin is the 150th captain of Harvard football and the first from the offense since …
What Drew Me to War
… The motives that drew me to war were many. They included a … to live the moral life, and make moral choices, in the face of such barbarity. Latin America, in the early 1980s, was … to the moral confrontations that intrigued me. In the fall of 1980 Robert Cox, the former editor of the Buenos Aires …
A Harmonious Revolution
… Sunlight streams through the glass ceiling, glinting off the grand piano at one end of the atrium in the Tosteson Medical Education Center …