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Buffed Up and Orderly
… The great mammal hall has been emblematic of the Harvard Museum of Natural History for decades. Traditionalists will be glad …
Issue: January-February 2015
Endowment Distribution to Be Reduced 8 Percent; Budget Cuts Loom
… On March 18, the University advised schools and other units that … The reduction is driven by the sharp decline in the value of endowment assets first reported last fall (see here for … for operations were provisionally estimated to rise further in the current fiscal year, to $1.4 billion or …
Rick Lowe Questions the Concept of “Value” at GSD Class Day
… As a young artist in the early 1990s, Rick Lowe had just completed a painting … we don’t need that,’” Lowe, speaking at the Graduate School of Design’s (GSD) Class Day ceremony on May 27, recalled the … Lowe shared the lessons he has learned from his two decades of work helping build those solutions through art and …
At Large on the Blue Frontier
… is like fishing. Patience, perseverance, and skill are part of it. Luck also plays a large role. But finding the right location often makes all the difference. When … embraces up to 80 percent of all species on Earth, and comprises nearly as much of the planet's available living space. …
Issue: July-August 2003
Psychedelics for Healing
… drugs, once considered primarily recreational, are making their way into clinical settings—and increasingly, helping patients with a range of conditions. Last fall, Harvard launched the Study of … back to the early 20th century, despite their cultural rise in the 1960s, as Jerrold Rosenbaum, Stanley Cobb …
Constructing the Perfect Bite
… wasabi and grapefruit confit dessert an essential part of their professional training—until world-famous French pastry … happens first, what happens second, what may provide a surprise in the middle.” Hermé was invited to the GSD by …
The Rub on the Pub
… in a new campus pub, scheduled to open early in April. The gathering spot is part of a $4.5-million overhaul of Loker Commons, the student space below Memorial Hall, …
Issue: March-April 2007
Words of Wisdom at an Outdoor Baccalaureate
… On Wednesday, May 24, at the annual Baccalaureate ceremony, Lawrence S. Bacow … that you are all wearing,” he said, “a symbol not only of our membership in a community of learning but also of our experience these past four …
Fine-Art Construction
… Even the heaviest of heavy construction can seem like precision watchmaking. Take the reconstruction of the Fogg Art Museum. It began in early 2010 by removing … steel girders into place for the new structure that will rise within, around, and over the skeletal Fogg—a rebirth, …
Issue: May-June 2012
Tobacco Bill's "Pitfalls and Possibilities"
… Passage of the tobacco-regulation bill currently before Congress would represent a major step forward, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Allan M. Brandt wrote in last … of science, is the author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That …
Commencement and Alumni Events
… and leading free-press advocate Maria Ressa, co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. See … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: May-June 2024
The “Classic Tough and Demanding Harvard Professor”
… and communication skills. He learned well: as pastor of Saint Patrick Parish in the former industrial city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, he leads a congregation of many …
Issue: September-October 2011
Alumnus Leads Anti-Gun-Violence Gesture at State of the Union Address
… The accidental gunshot in a police station that paralyzed … he became the first quadriplegic to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Having lived for so long as a “visible symbol” of the danger of guns, as Jeremy W. Peters has reported in …
Off the Shelf
… The Ethics of Invention , by Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer … Reiter ’03 (Yale, $32.50), an in-depth examination of the rise of solitary confinement by a young scholar at the … fluidity of gender and racial identities took him by surprise, leading to an exploration of “the possibilities for …
Issue: January-February 2017
Uneasy Neighbors: A Brief History of Mexican-U.S. Migration
… The recent political sparring over immigration reform has included scant mention of cross-border diplomacy. Despite the growing interdependence of the U.S. and Mexican economies over the past few decades, …
Issue: May-June 2007