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Construction Gallery
… from atop William James Hall (and in detailed views below), the 470,000-square-foot Northwest Science Building now under … construction weaves between the herbarium and the Museum of Comparative Zoology and existing facilities on Oxford … underground. Next year, it will accommodate science professors from several disciplines, enabling the Faculty of …
Issue: May-June 2007
Brevia
… Michael E. Porter , M.B.A. '71, Ph.D. '73, a member of the Business School faculty since 1973 and an internationally recognized scholar of strategy and competitiven Strategist-in-Chief Michael E. …
Cambridge 02138
… Art Saviors I was delighted to read “The Art Army” (January-February, page 36) and look forward … . The subject is truly important and the saving/salvaging of Europe’s art treasures is a real tribute to those … Anyone interested in this period will also enjoy The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich …
Issue: March-April 2010
Malkin Renewal
… Nothing exceeds like success. Last summer, the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) installed some new exercise … rooms. "We've gotten great feedback on it," says director of athletics Bob Scalise, M.B.A. '89. "And, of course, now the lines to use equipment are longer." With …
Issue: September-October 2002
Fancy Footwork
… The (biomechanical) mind at work. The late Thomas A. McMahon, McKay professor of applied mechanics and professor of biology, was … the challenge. Not long afterward his colleagues were surprised to find one of his post-doctoral students running …
Issue: March-April 2022
Frank Rich to Leave New York Times
… The New York Times has announced that Frank Rich ’71, a … the newspaper for 30 years, will leave its pages for those of New York magazine . His last column will run on March 13. Rich, profiled in a cover article for Harvard Magazine, wrote …
Shakespeare's "Tenth Muse"?
… Illustration by Bartek Malysa Perhaps the second-most-cultivated plant in Elizabethan England, … "Queen Elizabeth's navy ran on that stuff," says Clay professor of scientific archaeology Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, who …
Issue: September-October 2001
Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2013-2014 academic year. Rediet Abebe, of Leverett House and Ethiopia, a mathematics concentrator, … Shirley Scholar at Pembroke College; Charles Gertler, of Mather House and Connecticut, a joint concentrator in …
Issue: July-August 2013
HAA Clubs Committee Awards
… The HAA clubs committee Awards honor individuals who provide … to the 2008 recipients (listed below) at the HAA Board of Directors and Alumni Leadership Conference dinner on February 1. Modesta Garcia, Ed.M. ’79, of Daly City, California. Garcia has been president of both …
Issue: March-April 2008
Exemplary Contributors
… With great pleasure, the editors recognize four contributors to Harvard Magazine … ” (March-April) and the November-December cover story , a profile and assessment of poet Seamus Heaney. Kirschs wide reading and wonderful …
Issue: January-February 2007
Overseers Petitioners Challenge Harvard Policies
… go, it was as splashy as could be: a page-one story in The New York Times of January 15, headlined “How Some Would Level the Playing … high-profile news coverage at the outset should be no surprise: its quarterback is Ron Unz ’83, who describes himself …
Crimson’s Mr. Green
… having long done more than anyone else to instill a culture of waste-reduction, reuse (of furniture, for example), recycling, and composting throughout the University. Helped by friends and correspondents, he …
Issue: January-February 2021
Rowing for Boston
… Competition was intense at the Women’s Crew Beanpot this past Sunday on the Charles … 225 rowers from six area schools rallied around the efforts of Harvard-Radcliffe lightweight rower Corinne Wee ’13, who designed a T-shirt featuring blade patterns of Boston area schools that reads “Row for Boston.” “The …
Astor von Leisbusch und Sohn
… to shake with passers-by." Phantom may have had the president's ear (see " Phantom Lowell "). Just across … president's house, however, the "Most Responsible Position of any Canine in Country," according to a 1928 Boston … is perhaps no wonder then," she recalled, "that I was surprised upon learning, the first time I attended a game in …
Issue: November-December 2003
Contested Harvard Overseer Election Begins
… With the ferocious U.S. presidential primaries in temporary … scheduled to be in the mail April 1 for the annual election of members of the Board of Overseers and directors of the Harvard …