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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
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 …
Harvard University's 369th Commencement Excercises
… Harvard’s Commencement Exercises have brought together the community unlike any other tradition still observed … Exercises this spring. To accommodate the increasing number of people planning to attend, we ask that any interested … of the ceremony, the graduating seniors are asked to rise, and their degrees are conferred on them as a group by …
Issue: March-April 2020
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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
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
The Maximalist
… Everyone in the recording booth agreed the cello wasn’t coming through. … for a few measures, to help it cut through the deep thicket of piano accompaniment. Jazz and opera singers, Sanford … it wrong, but agreed to give it a try. “That’s the danger of having the composer there!” Haimovitz explained after the …
Issue: November-December 2008
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
Back in the Game
… In the fall of my freshman year, I arrived in Cambridge with a lot of baggage. The family station wagon was nearly bursting … hibernation and awakened my player's instinct. I was surprised at how naturally my skills started to return to me. I …
Issue: January-February 2002
The "Great Good Place"
… for post-graduate English studies, and I wouldn't have been there if the University of London had admitted me without time-consuming conditions. Somewhat to my surprise, Harvard, albeit with conditions of its own, did accept …
Issue: September-October 2001
Financial Fitness
… Harvard’s financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, released in October, … and Harvard’s leaders have now accomplished a full decade of Crimson black ink. Harvard Management Company (HMC), … the endowment assets, realized a net 2.9 percent rate of return, improving upon the negative 1.8 percent return in …
Issue: January-February 2024