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Brevia
… From Dean to Doctor Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School since 2007, announced in November—a year after launching the school’s $750-million capital campaign—that he would … that will face a reconfigured public open space; less of the outdoor Forbes Plaza will be enclosed than under …
Issue: January-February 2016
Landmark Bio Breaks Ground
… Construction began today on a state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility in a 40,000-square-foot … leased space at the Watertown Arsenal, a few miles west of Harvard Square, culminating a several-year process of …
A Giant's Gift
… G ’37, LL.D. ’69, has made a $100-million gift to Harvard, the largest by an alumnus in University history. Reflecting the convergence of his own lifelong interests and current Harvard … arts—particularly engagement with visual arts, in the form of the Harvard Art Museum’s new study centers that will be …
Issue: July-August 2008
Reform School
… The decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century have been called the Gilded Age, the Age of Innocence, the Age of Excess, the Progressive Era, and …
Issue: September-October 2012
Football: Harvard 31, Georgetown 17
… “The game was not as close as the score might indicate.” The most extreme case of this often jocular athletics adage occurred this past Friday …
Preparing for a Profession
… especially ambitious students enrolling for a Harvard professional education could have begun work simultaneously on their M.B.A., J.D., and Ed.M. degrees while the University … and valuation—the basic language for understanding an enterprise’s performance and status. By one estimate, serious …
Issue: January-February 2020
New Direction
… year." Kelly, a tall woman dressed that day in an outfit of flaming coral, is, arguably, the furthest thing from that long-standing Harvard … woman to head the HAA, and her pointed comments reflect one of her top priorities: to reach out to minority--and …
Issue: September-October 2001
Harvard Researchers Seek to Create Specialized Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
… Scientists at Harvard and the affiliated Children's Hospital Boston today announced … stem-cell lines for research. For more, see the news releases from the Harvard University Gazette and Children's Hospital . … …
Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn
… Harvard’s lead piano technician Mariana Quinn, who oversees the maintenance of the University’s more than 200 pianos. Although her … Her first six months as a technician, she tuned the pianos of her father’s former clients—the last ones he ever …
Issue: July-August 2022
New Complaints Filed against “Baby Apps”
… The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), … marketed as educational by toymaker Fisher-Price and software developer Open Solutions, according to yesterday’s … “as an activist response to the rapidly escalating problem of commercialism encroaching on the lives of children.” …
“A 500-Year Building”
… When Matt Noblett, a partner in the architecture firm Behnisch Architekten, started working … focused research facility in Allston in 2007, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences—many of whose faculty … plant that will also provide power to the nearby enterprise research campus under development) is expected to earn …
Issue: January-February 2021
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
… These honors , awarded at the HAA board of directors’ winter … that have organized exceptional programs. Larry Kahn ’83, of Orlando. An active member of the Harvard Club of Central …
Issue: March-April 2017
Joanna Aizenberg
… When Joanna Aizenberg looks at the skeleton of a sea sponge lying on her desk, she sees … 1,000 times smaller.” Aizenberg, who is Gordon McKay professor of materials science and Susan S. and Kenneth L. …
Issue: July-August 2008
Post-Season’s End
… Sunday afternoon, with a little over three minutes left in their matchup with St. John’s University in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), the … in Harvard’s opening-round victory at the University of New Hampshire , the freshman floor general had set the …
Cambridge 02138
… SEGREGATION, NOW AND THEN I enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful " Living … that anywhere teachers in classes with a high proportion of black and Hispanic students are as qualified and … experienced as teachers in classes with high proportions of white and Asian students in the same school district. In …
Issue: July-August 2003