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Mimicking Organs
… That reality may be coming, according to researchers at the Wyss Institute who have developed organs-on-chips: … flexible polymer microchips (about the size of a computer flash drive) that provide a window into the tissue structures, functions, and mechanical motions of lungs, intestines, kidneys, hearts, and other organs. …
Issue: January-February 2016
“Let Us Be Courageous Together”
… On the eve of her installation as the thirtieth president, the Harvard Gazette asked Claudine … crisis, and inequality, to name a few”—plus the realm of discoveries in the life sciences (with their potential to …
Issue: November-December 2023
In Wine We Trust
… Like children waiting with open bags at the door on Halloween, a dozen adults crowded around a table … at the Skinner auction house wine preview in Boston, proffering empty goblets for a sip from the coveted bottles for sale. With great ceremony, Philip Minervino, of the Lower Falls Wine Company, poured an inch of the 1997 …
Issue: November-December 2007
Face-lift
… Its stacks, reading rooms, and offices already renovated, climate controlled, and rewired for the twenty-first century, the time had come to spruce up Widener Library's exterior, the most visible of campus building projects during the prime construction …
Issue: September-October 2004
Allston Planning Explained
… A room in the Holyoke Center Arcade has been fitted out to help … for an Allston campus. The move follows the release of a 40-page interim planning report last June that was … and the general public. The display, which consists of watercolor drawings and schematics mounted on the walls …
Issue: January-February 2006
Hilarity On-line
… The logo --a man in a suit and fedora striding confidently … is very 2001, and adds almost daily to its on-line array of parodies, mini-scripts, ersatz letters, sight gags, and … their only vehicle, on-line humor remains the core enterprise. All their books, for example, have grown out of …
Issue: November-December 2001
Brevia
… “Romance” in the Houses Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis has appointed … new masters for Eliot and Kirkland Houses. Lino Pertile , professor of Romance languages and literatures and professor …
To Russia, with Gloves
… The Harvard pipeline to the Winter Olympics this February … Kate Buesser ’11, and Lyndsey Fry ’14; the mentor in charge of shaping these athletes into the 21 players of the Olympic … limit.’’ In Stone’s first season, the nascent Crimson surprised Northeastern, the era’s dominant team, by winning the …
Issue: January-February 2014
University People
… Robert D. Reischauer Harvard News Office Familiar Fellow Robert D. Reischauer '63 was appointed to the Harvard Corporation (The President and Fellows of Harvard College) on October 6, succeeding Herbert S. …
Issue: November-December 2002
January Reading
… There will be no intersession at Harvard College this year. … and budget shortfalls, we will have nearly the entire month of January as part of our winter break, rather than elective … exasperation among both students and faculty whenever it arises. Faculty members tend to regret the failure to provide …
Issue: January-February 2010
Al Gore Named 2019 Class Day Speaker
… advocate Al Gore ’69, LL.D. ’94, will address the class of 2019 on College Class Day, May 29, the day … Commencement. The fiftieth-reunioner is also a member of the class that saw some of the most momentous, divisive …
Whittling Down
… At home there’s a box with my name scrawled atop it. It lies in a … I both wrote and illustrated, back in the polymath days of fifth and sixth grade. I spent a week back home this semester, among a wistful gathering of relatives and family friends; we had come together to …
Issue: July-August 2016
Harvard College to Merge Freshmen, Student Life Offices
… The Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) and Office of Student Life (OSL) will merge into one Dean of … Harvard College Rakesh Khurana announced in an email today. The change will take effect in July, once dean of freshmen …
Jonathan L. Walton Named Memorial Church Minister
… President Drew Faust today announced the appointment of Harvard Divinity School faculty member … as Pusey minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer professor of Christian morals, effective July 1. He succeeds …
Libraries Announce New Organizational Structure
… The Harvard Library Board, composed of faculty and … library within the Harvard Library system will join one of five affinity groups based on criteria such as collection … or specialized activities. The five groups comprise libraries focused on application of theory in practice, …