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Unifying Harvard’s Libraries
… After “exhaustive analysis,” an implementation work group of the Task Force on University Libraries has recommended … 2010, page 41). A new position, executive director of the University library, will report to a board of …
Issue: January-February 2011
Alchemist's Ink
… What alchemy makes images on paper move? The secret, Jerome Rubin explains, is in the ink: "an ink … you coat it on--paper, plastic, fabric--into the equivalent of a computer screen. "Imagine a huge number of microcapsules," he says, "maybe 40 microns in diameter, …
Sharing Governance
… One shibboleth of academic life is “shared governance”: involving faculty members in shaping the direction, even the management, of their institutions. In theory, that makes the operation …
Issue: September-October 2015
Vaillancourt Honored as Best on Ice
… Sarah Vaillancourt ’08 (’09) was awarded the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, designating her the top … about Vaillancourt and her teammates in the current issue of Harvard Magazine : Crimson Queens of the Rink . … Sarah Vaillancourt ’09 was awarded the Patty …
Renovating Gund
… The first stage of a renovation of Gund Hall, the iconic home of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design …
Issue: May-June 2024
Yo-Yo Ma Is Kennedy Center Honorand
… Yo-Yo Ma ’76, D.Mus. ’91, the internationally acclaimed cellist, will receive a 2011 … Sonny Rollins, and actress Meryl Streep , Ar.D. ’10. Ma, profiled in Harvard Magazine , will be the featured performer at Harvard's 375th anniversary …
Hockey's Donato Returns
… '91, a former Crimson captain, was named Ziff head coach of men's ice hockey. He succeeds Mark Mazzoleni, who left … Ted Donato '91 Photograph by Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office In 1989, Donato was chosen Most Valuable Player of the "Frozen Four" when he scored three goals and had two …
Issue: September-October 2004
A Special Notice Regarding Commencement Day
… Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of people wishing to attend Harvard’s … Morning: • Degree candidates will receive a limited number of tickets to Commencement. Their parents and guests must …
Issue: March-April 2015
Is Pedagogy About Us?
… What civic and political ills had made certain regions of Chicago sites of gang violence? We mulled the question for a few directionless minutes before a … to improve. In the absence of discomfort, the entire enterprise of higher education becomes trite at best. We must …
Issue: January-February 2024
Sculpting Hallowed Ground
… Harvard Yard is sacred ground. Admirers expect the canopy of tall trees, trimmed just so (the clean, … Hall is a third such sculpture: a paperbark maple ( Acer griseum ), with an extravagantly cinnamon outer layer and, …
Issue: January-February 2019
Harvard Calendar
… THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents … the Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music perform Mozart's Requiem on February 14. … p.m. in Sanders Theatre. For tickets, call the Harvard Box Office at 617-496-2222. Harvard's Jazz Bands perform at the …
Issue: January-February 2004
Nabokov's Butterflies
… frequently appear in Vladimir Nabokov's novels, but the winged creatures were more than a trope for the multifaceted Russian writer. As curator of lepidoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology , he collected butterflies and …
Campaign Chatter
… As Harvard conducts the quiet phase of a major capital campaign, preceding a … Coming Campaign,” January-February, page 50), further hints of its scale continue to bubble up. In naming Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2013
Campaigning by Text Message
… The cell phone —and, more specifically, the text message—is … and former Webmaster for Howard Dean, is the author of The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race … beyond the simple observation that as landlines fall out of favor, text messages are the way of the future, to offer …
$tellar Swan Song
… Ending his 15-year run as president of Harvard Management Company, Jack R. Meyer, M.B.A. ’69, … his investment colleagues turned in a rousing finale. For the fiscal year ended June 30, total investment return of 19.2 percent brought the value of Harvard’s endowment to …
Issue: November-December 2005