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A Cosmopolitan Spirit
… Zurich, and Davos—a trip that combined delivering the Rede Lecture at Cambridge University and meeting with … to depart for China, where I will be visiting with some of the more than 1,700 alumni living and working there, … enhanced based on interest and opportunity. A wide range of entrepreneurial efforts are supported by thoughtful …
Issue: March-April 2015
Smaller is Beautiful
… and international studies were poorly received by the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District … they were presented to the commission. Now the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) planning committee has reviewed … his colleagues to fit the academic and research aspirations of the faculty into this new, smaller design." Above, …
Sun, Wind, and Steel
… fall, just one major new building is rising at Harvard, at the northwest corner of the Law School grounds, where the steel superstructure is … the University owns a complex of buildings that once comprised a U.S. Army arsenal, preparations for the installation …
Issue: November-December 2009
An Autumn Accent: Gold Leaf
… Nobody quite remembers when the portico ceilings outside Memorial Church were last … tended. They're easy to miss, if you're not in the habit of looking up. Refreshed with new paint and gold leaf this fall, they are now particularly worthy of attention. "The Reverend [Gomes] is very happy," says …
Arts and Sciences’ Development Dean Departs
… O’Neil A. S. Outar , who joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as senior associate dean and director of development in September 2014, at the end of the first …
Arts and Sciences Annual Report
… D. Smith discussed his draft annual message with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) colleagues at their first meeting of the year on October 4. Among the notable points: FAS …
Issue: November-December 2011
Embracing Difficult Circumstances
… “It’s one of life’s ironies that high character is formed at the bottom,” David Bradley, M.B.A. ’77, announced in his … Business School (HBS) on Wednesday. Bradley is a man of many careers. After interning at the White House and …
Football 2018: Harvard 36, San Diego 14
… 1924, Illinois running back Red Grange had a quarter for the ages against Michigan, scoring touchdowns on runs of 95, 67, 56 and 44 yards—all in the game’s first 12 … Grange-ian, scoring first-quarter touchdowns on runs of 64, 23, and 22 yards. In the fourth quarter, Shampklin …
Return to Harvard Day
… On April 16 , all College alumni and their spouses/partners and high-school-age offspring can visit the College, attend classes, and meet … alumni and their spouses/partners and high-school-age offspring can visit the College, attend classes, and meet …
Issue: March-April 2008
A Dazzling Flat Lens
… Scientists at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created a revolutionary flat lens made not of glass but of a layer of gold (seen here in a photograph … of a human hair, and just one millimeter in diameter, the lens focuses incoming light by relying on tiny antennae, …
Issue: January-February 2013
Lest We Forget
… “One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I, a group of European Harvard alumni felt the need to recognize the …
Issue: November-December 2014
Three Maestros Talk Music
… Conductors are known for their long lives—Toscanini, for example, lived to be … Tom Everett, and Jameson Marvin——have also enjoyed professional longevity, waving arms and batons in Cambridge … nearly a century—working with and shaping the lives of thousands of student performers—and are still going …
Issue: November-December 2002
No Longer an “Ugly Step-Child”
… Friday morning in September, a jackhammer bore down on the Mill Street pavement. All through the House, not a … the former deans’ residence to be converted into two floors of student rooms.) Perhaps even more historic: construction … Beren Hall finished early, and it opened six months ahead of schedule. Winthrop had been in dire need of renovation. …
Dean Knowles on Teaching Fellows
… The undergraduate spoke with Jeremy Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, about the decision this spring to make …
Gymsuits, Pre-Spandex
… In our age of athleisure, of clothes that contour and compress, of aspiring to a … life—sweatless and chafe-free—it’s a jarring sight: the workout wear of a Radcliffe student from the turn of the …
Issue: July-August 2018