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Branching Out
… What it will be, nobody exactly knows: neither the 50 volunteers who will have happily trudged for hours through muddy woodlands north of Boston to gather tractor-trailer loads of saplings—linden, beech, Norwegian maple, depending on …
Issue: May-June 2015
Alumni Gifts: Solid Support
… The University had received 78,000 gifts as of May 24, … especially those who interviewed a record number (30,000) of College applicants. Rothenberg de-emphasized the …
Issue: July-August 2010
Calorie-burning “Beige Fat” Identified
… cells, found primarily in infants, burn energy. Now a team of scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), led by Korsmeyer professor of cell biology and medicine Bruce Spiegelman , has identified “beige fat,” another energy-burning but genetically distinct fat cell in …
Olives Revisited
… Mediterranean cuisine has made a big splash in Boston. The restaurant has now spun off a chain of upscale outposts in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., and …
With Our Thanks
… We are honored to recognize two artists for their outstanding work on readers’ behalf during 2018, and … a $1,000 honorarium on each. Robert Adam Mayer Courtesy of Robert Adam Mayer New York-based photographer Robert … amply demonstrated anew in his cover and interior images of black-studies scholar Fred Moten, for the …
Issue: January-February 2019
Chapter & Verse
… Charles Miller seeks an identification, and the exact words, of the German historian referred to by the late Harvard Law School professor Paul Freund in a 1950 essay: “No one would have been …
Issue: November-December 2009
Finding Physics in Everyday Objects
… [video: http://vimeo.com/1542550 width:500 height:281] The wrinkling in an elephant’s trunk and in billionth-of-a-meter nanotubes proceed from the same physical … The oscillations and flutters that agitate a piece of paper when you blow on it operate by mechanisms similar …
Issue: March-April 2008
Summers on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
… Street Journal reprints a blog post by Eliot University Professor (and former University president) Lawrence H. Summers. Summers, who served as Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001, writes that a noble …
William O. Taylor
… We note with sadness the death on May 1, at home in Boston, of William O. Taylor ’54, chairman emeritus of the Boston Globe , where he had served with distinction …
Issue: July-August 2011
Video “Training Ground” to Debut in Widener
… A state-of-the art video-capture studio will make its debut in Widener … this fall, equipped with green screens and 4K capability—the highest resolution format available—to serve as both a … technology into their teaching, according to University officials. Located just one floor below a rare Gutenberg …
Alumni Gifts
… The thirty-fifth-reunion class of 1977 broke the all-time … “an extraordinary $68.7 million” in contributions as of May 23, reported University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg …
Issue: July-August 2012
Ethan Lasser
… When he put the two paintings together, on facing walls of a Harvard Art … seroual trousers, and Théodore Chassériau’s 1850 depiction of actual Arab horsemen carrying their dead from the …
Issue: May-June 2016
Outperformance Pays
… -2.7 percent and -0.5 percent results on endowment funds in the past two fiscal years, left the University dramatically better off than if the assets had declined in line with the … yielded large pay packages for a handful of investment professionals in the year ended last June 30. …
Issue: March-April 2003
Crimson Olympian
… years in Queens, he says, “I didn’t measure up to the high-schoolers, and track practice didn’t start until … recalls. “My older brother and sister taught me how to run off a pier and throw myself into the water. Pretty soon, I … me to Harvard and let me hang out with the team.” After offers of tuition aid, a second visit to campus in his …
Issue: May-June 2011
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/arts 617-495-8676 • April 29 through May 2: The annual Arts First festival hosts events throughout … 1935, Paradise Lost, by Clifford Odets, probes the effects of money and greed on family, business, and love amid a …
Issue: March-April 2010