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… Science Center Schematic Harvard planners have introduced the design for the science and engineering complex in Allston , encompassing 586,000 square feet of new construction and repurposed space at 114 Western … proceeds to clean the site and plan for its future “enterprise research campus” along Western Avenue and the Charles …
Issue: November-December 2015
Heloise and Abelard at Harvard
… Tales of thwarted love frequently do well on stage, and the story of Heloise and Abelard is no exception. This dramatic tale, …
Medical Pioneer Mary Ellen Avery Has Died
… Mary Ellen Avery, S.D. ’05, Rotch professor of pediatrics emerita, an innovative medical researcher and … each glass ceiling she encountered,” according to the Boston Globe , died on December 4 at the age of 84. In …
Summer/Steiner Fellowship
… THE SUMMER FELLOWSHIP The Summer Fellowship provides summer … also receiving an introduction to the business aspects of magazine operations. Current Harvard College freshmen, … for publication online and in print. Stories are a mix of assigned subjects and ideas proposed by the fellow and …
Stolen Censer Returns to Harvard Art Museums
… played out “like a movie,” according to Homeland Security officials, an eighteenth-century Chinese jadeite tripod … Fogg Art Museum in 1979 has been formally returned to the University. At a ceremony at Hoffman Laboratories today, representatives from U.S. …
Health Benefits to Cost 3.8 Percent More
… After several years of significant increases in employee healthcare spending, … (down from last year’s 7 percent increase, and 7.3 percent the previous year). Employees’ monthly premiums will … selecting a popular individual plan would see an increase of 3.8 percent, from $79 to $82 per month; in the highest …
A President with a Purpose
… As 2007 began, and several aspirants prepared to announce their candidacies for our nation’s highest office, Americans paused to celebrate the life of Gerald R. Ford, our only chief executive never elected …
Issue: March-April 2007
An Honorand’s Passing
… Harvard’s Gleason professor of fine arts emeritus and Cabot founding director of the Harvard University Art Museums emeritus Seymour Slive …
Harvard Campaign Reaches $5 Billion
… The University has announced that The Harvard Campaign had recorded $5 billion in gifts and pledges as of December 31: nearly 77 percent of the $6.5-billion goal … , the end of the fiscal year. The gains since are not a surprise: they include the $350-million gift to the Harvard …
Chapter & Verse
… John Endicott asks whether Le Corbusier did in fact declare that “Democracy is a … narrator is writing to the woman he loves toward the close of the year. One line, she recalls, runs something like: “My … a June 1999 column by Ellen Goodman containing a variant of the sentence, and Henry Godfrey unearthed a version …
Issue: May-June 2018
Icon
… Early Georgian red brick with white trim, devoid of frills—defines the architectural idiom for much of the rest of this campus (and others). Its history …
Issue: July-August 2020
Painting across Cultures
… without skill gives us modern art." If Stoppard is right, then Julia Chen Davidson '05 presents a problem. Her works … in ways that place Davidson at a far remove from trends of the current art world. "I'm not on the cutting edge of what people are doing today," she says. "People are …
Issue: March-April 2005
Football 2021: Harvard 24, Cornell 10
… It was not a thing of beauty. At times it was downright ugly. But at afternoon’s end on Saturday at the Stadium, the Harvard football team had preserved its … done this season so far. It took us a while to get adjusted offensively. Eventually we got into a rhythm. I’m really …
Badminton’s Lightning Charm
… year, Boris Becker defeated Kevin Curran in four sets for the Wimbledon tennis championship, and, amid far less fanfare, Han Jian of China bested Denmark’s Morten Frost in three sets of badminton at Calgary. The Wimbledon match lasted three …
Issue: March-April 2010
Old Quincy, Renewed
… chairs, and a brand-new kitchen have transformed the basement, once used for storage, into a community room … during clement weather. Down the corridor there is a state-of-the art videoconferencing classroom with smart boards; on … the first undergraduate residence completely redone. It comprises 165,000 square feet, and is scheduled to close for …