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Harvard Plans to Restart Allston Project
… Harvard would like to rapidly resume construction of its science project in Allston ( where work ceased in 2010 as a result of the financial crisis ), a University representative …
Authoritarian Regimes’ AI Innovation Advantage
… For the past decade, China has led the world in advanced-facial … systems. Chinese companies dominate the rankings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Face Recognition Vendor Test, …
Issue: May-June 2022
Administrative Data Systems Modernized
… Harvard's modernization of its financial-data systems--the first phase of a $115-million University-wide project … here, people who are experienced in managing large, enterprise-wide systems...What we have learned is that you need to …
Please, Run!
… kids at Laurel Elementary School spill outside for recess. They race across the blacktop, screeching and laughing, to … it awesome!” says Jill Vialet ’86 (’87), founder and CEO of Playworks, a nonprofit that partners with schools to … of thousands of hours,” she says. “People are always surprised that I actually put in about 40 hours a week.” As a …
Issue: November-December 2018
Taming Turbulence
… Waft the scent of cinnamon, wintergreen, or eucalyptus into the tropical air of Central and South America and beautifully colored bees in …
Issue: November-December 2009
University People
… Development Leader to Depart With the Harvard Campaign headed for a record finish as of June 30, the same day Drew Faust’s presidency concludes, … president for alumni affairs and development at the end of 2018—time enough to wind up the fundraising drive, thank …
Issue: March-April 2018
Keeping Faith
… was founded to educate aspiring Protestant ministers in the seventeenth century, its supporters could hardly have … day when religious faith was not the center and the purpose of students' lives and vocations. Three hundred and sixty … inter-ethnic activities at Hillel, has been pleasantly surprised by the enthusiastic student response to the interfaith …
Titans Televised
… Two g reat scientists who could—theoretically—have taught at Harvard will be celebrated on … by an article in this magazine, written by Baird research professor of science Dudley Herschbach (see "Ben Franklin's …
Issue: November-December 2002
Professorial Permutations
… During the past quarter-century , Harvard’s faculty has become more … has refocused its intellectual energies. The University’s professoriate includes more women and minorities, and is … changes has been a slow process at times. When Conant professor of education Judith Singer joined the faculty in …
Issue: September-October 2011
Honoris Causa
… honorary degrees at Harvard’s 349th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Maclyn McCarty, Rockefeller professor emeritus, Rockefeller University. He and his …
Aloian Winners
… Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and Master of Quincy House, the Aloian Memorial Scholarships recognize …
Art in Academe
… As part of the campus-wide Arts First celebration, Arts @ 29 Garden was … undergraduate art gallery on April 27, and a survey of the scene showed that Harvard is taking the “arts” in the …
News Briefs
… Mending the Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) has sold a 99-year leasehold in eight of the 11 floors of its Harvard Institutes of Medicine building. The decision …
Issue: September-October 2018
Subtle Improvements
… is a follow-up test: a so-called CD4+ count, which measures the level of a key type of immune cell in her bloodstream, indicating whether she is …
Coming Home, Coming Out
… public gay activist. In Brooklyn, New York, where he was the only child in a Conservative Jewish household, he kept … who was equally dismayed. Sandi Dubowski '92 Courtesy of Sandi Dubowski Dubowski says his parents never rejected him outright. But as is often the case when gays and lesbians "come out" to their …
Issue: March-April 2004