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… photographs,” explains Leslie Tuttle ’72. “You engage, and the photograph should show something of your relationship to the people in it.” A social … “and see the world from a different perspective.” She was offered a job documenting agricultural projects in rural …
Issue: May-June 2016
Investing in Learning and Teaching
… $40 million to encourage pedagogical innovation and strengthen learning and teaching throughout the University. Their gift focuses attention on one of the institution’s chief academic missions and illustrates the scale of the philanthropy the University aims to muster as it …
Issue: January-February 2012
North Carolina Firm Buys Brattle Street Buildings
… real-estate investment-management firm Asana Partners are the newest property owners in Harvard Square. This summer, … Gourmet Shoppe and Black Ink. The $108-million sale is part of a much broader shift in Harvard Square 's identity. Asana is not the only out-of-town voice playing a key role in the Square’s evolution …
Winter Wonders
… became NCAA national indoor high jump champion with a leap of 1.94 meters (6 feet, 4 1/2 inches). The previous week she tied the NCAA record with a 1.97-meter … to eliminate the Crimson from the ECAC tournament. In a surprise move, the American Women’s College Hockey Alliance did …
“Living Underwater”: Harvard’s Inaugural Black Commencement
… The Black Graduate Student Alliance held its inaugural Black … four student orators, each reflecting a different dimension of the black student experience. Near the end of the … award, not listed on the program, was presented by surprise to the master of ceremonies, Lisa Coleman, the …
Strategically Speaking
… July 11 , Corporation senior fellow William F. Lee wrote to the Harvard community, soliciting advice about the qualities … but dismaying, news: reversing earlier polls, a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents now think … embracing UCSF, Berkeley, large local biotechnology enterprises, and the many area data scientists), can Harvard, with …
Issue: November-December 2017
Undergraduate Architectural Studies Track Begins in Fall
… this fall, for the first time, undergraduates inspired by I.M. Pei , … will have a chance to study at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), and possibly start earning graduate credit as early as their senior year. Harvard’s department of history of art and architecture and the GSD have …
Harvard Professor James Hanken on the Amphibian Extinction Crisis
… The Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology is one of the oldest museums in the United States–but part of its …
President Drew Faust: "Still Harvard"
… “ We are on it ,” President Drew Faust said of the University’s financial situation during a July conversation in her office at Massachusetts Hall. And she said, with equal …
Issue: September-October 2009
Insider Activist
… Laura Wharton ’83 refused to sit in the back of the bus. One Sunday morning this past August, on … city’s gender-segregated bus lines. Even in the holiest of cities, the secular deserve rights, too—at least …
Issue: January-February 2010
Daniel S. Fisher
… likes to ask difficult questions and, although he is a theoretical physicist, his latest inquiries have led him to … in modern biology. For example: How does one make sense of the vast amount of data that the life sciences now generate? Modern …
Issue: November-December 2004
Cambridge 02138
… Our Towns I was pleasantly surprised to see that one place the Fallowses covered was my hometown and current place of residence, Sioux Falls (“Our Towns,” by Lincoln Caplan, …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harry R. Lewis Named Interim Engineering Dean [Updated]
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith today announced that Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay professor of computer science and director of undergraduate … for computer science , will serve as interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), …
Online Evolution
… HarvardX and other institutions continue to create new massive open online … at harvardx.harvard.edu/modules-courses). But with hundreds of offerings available on edX, Coursera, and emerging … rather than earlier-stage learners. This is less a surprise (given the course requirements) than a useful reminder …
Issue: September-October 2014
Genomic Engineering Hits Its Mark
… and clinicians who seek to study, or even alter, the course of disease. In a lecture last week at Harvard … (HMS), J. Keith Joung ’87, M.D.-Ph.D. ’96, associate chief of pathology for research at Massachusetts General Hospital …