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Adams House Will Be Renewed after Lowell
… Adams House will be the sixth undergraduate residence to be renewed, House … in an email today. The renewal, like the renovations of other undergraduate Houses, will make Adams … on the current renewal schedule, some uncertainty may have arisen about future projects. The extended calendar for the …
Love Story
… pleasant and well-informed, and very lady-like. I thought of her all night instead of going to sleep. If there ever was a fool, his name is Frank Abbot." On January …
Issue: July-August 2002
James E. Rothman, Ph.D. ’76, Shares Nobel Prize for Medicine
… James E. Rothman , Ph. D. '76 —now Wallace professor of biomedical sciences at Yale, chair of the medical school's department of cell biology, and …
Tibetan Literature, Digitized
… to upload onto its digital storage system 10 million pages of Tibetan literature that survived China’s convulsive Cultural Revolution, the movement between 1966 and 1976 that led to the … Despite all the political tensions that have arisen concerning China’s governance of the Tibetan region …
Issue: September-October 2014
Painting and Numbers
… as writing equations on a blackboard. His unusual avocation—the digital authentication of art—lets him practice math in an intriguing setting. … behind the scenes at a museum,” says the Kemeny Parents professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. Rockmore uses …
Issue: May-June 2007
Harvard Law Offers Pre-matriculation Material Free Nationwide
… Amid wide concern driven by the COVID-19 pandemic (Is it safe to attend?) and recession … plummet this fall, Harvard Law School (HLS) has decided to offer Zero-L—its online, pre-matriculation orientation to … beginning July 1. This “on-ramp” to the unique features of legal reasoning, writing, and pedagogy ( reported in …
Debt Reliever
… During his last two years of college, Rohan Pavuluri ’18 rode the bus from Boston to New York and back every other … or friends. He was en route to work on Upsolve , the nonprofit startup that he co-founded in 2016. Upsolve has since …
Issue: September-October 2019
Light Blitzes Plaque
… containing an entire day’s nutrients? A gadget that confers the benefits of aerobic exercise as you sit in your armchair? Among such … the inflammation of the patients’ gums. “Much to our surprise,” he says, “rather than an irritating effect, we …
Issue: January-February 2006
Executive Education, Innovation Lab, Allston Alterations
… Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced receipt of a $50-million gift to fund a new building on its campus for executive education . At the same time, the University announced that it would … the time, business ethics were suspect but the Tata enterprises stood for "integrity and quality." Having subsequently …
Allston Update
… Just two years ago, Harvard seemed flush with investment profits and generous campaign donations. Former president Neil L. Rudenstine had raised the money needed to expand the faculty and now a new … H. Summers, but it is becoming apparent that the magnitude of this "city-building" project (as Graduate School of …
Issue: September-October 2002
An Empiricist on Art
… Prisoners rehearse and perform The Tempest behind walls. People reportedly queued on the … docks in 1841 awaiting the ship bearing the final chapter of Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop to find out Little … do these examples—arrayed by Boston College psychology professor Ellen Winner ’69, Ph.D. ’78, RI ’99—have in common, …
Issue: March-April 2019
Toward Theater
… If the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) approves an undergraduate concentration in “theater, dance, and media,” as expected later this semester, … not purport to do; and provides background on the evolution of this concentration and on the performing arts within the …
Football: Harvard 22, Brown 14
… game against Harvard at Brown Stadium, Brown treated the 13,511 spectators to a fireworks show as part of the university’s 250th anniversary celebration. Actually, … was doubly significant: it was the first Ivy League game of the season, and it was one Harvard could have, and maybe …
Slow Dancing
… Last spring , in the midst of Harvard’s 375th birthday and 20th annual ARTS … understanding. Even the dancers themselves were surprised to see what their movements actually involved. Such a …
Issue: November-December 2012
Vaccine Delivery System Wins President’s Challenge Grand Prize
… Every year , more than 2.4 million people around the globe die of diseases that could be prevented by vaccines. Now, a cross-disciplinary group of Harvard student entrepreneurs—one from the Business …