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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
The Best Diets for Healthy Aging
… links four major healthy eating patterns to a lower risk of premature death and of cancer, diseases of the cardiovascular system, and respiratory illness. The …
How Deforestation Damages Even the Rainforests That Survive It
… Last summer —seemingly a lifetime ago—the news was dominated by reports of the escalation of human-created fires in the Amazon … staying below 1.5 degree Celsius global average temperature rise,” Eric Dinerstein, a wildlife scientist who was not …
Harvard Reveals Healthcare Costs
… In the wake of faculty members’ sharp objections to Harvard’s … $46-million adjustment in pension expense, those figures rise to 34.3 percent and 3.8 percent, respectively). From … of costs. As University spending for medical benefits has risen from $48.3 million in fiscal 2001 to $155.7 million in …
The Forgotten Modernist
… If there’s one name associated with the reputation of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) as the cradle of American modern …
Issue: September-October 2007
Gomes Marks 40 Years of Ministry
… Widely beloved Harvard figure Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, celebrated 40 years as an ordained …
Five Questions with Cass R. Sunstein
… Cass R. Sunstein ’75, J.D. ’78, is currently the Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, where he also directs the … for those decisions in shaping public policy. In the words of contributing editor and journalist Lincoln Caplan ’72, …
Scanning the Social Sciences
… have gone out inviting senior faculty members from across the University, nominated by the deans of their respective schools, to participate in planning for a broad review of the way Harvard handles the social sciences. The list of …
Issue: May-June 2008
A Taste of Judy Budnitz
… Read an excerpt from "Nadia" by Judy Budnitz, who was profiled by Eliza Wilmerding in the March-April 2007 issue of Harvard Magazine. Our friend Joel got one of those …
Issue: March-April 2007
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
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 Physician-Poet
… The moment that Rafael Campo, M.D. ’92, still thinks about … or sits at his desk to write a poem—came at the end of what had been the longest, hardest year of his life. … a chance to write together,” he said. As the group began to rise from their chairs, not quite shaking off the spell of …
Issue: May-June 2019
From the Archives: Democracy’s Prospects
… Approaching the midterm elections, amid debate about the strains on … in authoritarian societies (Russia, the People’s Republic of China), we revisit a 1999 roundtable on the role for and … Vietnam? Darman: All true, but you referred earlier to the rise of a rather adversarial press, so we probably need more …
Rx for the Books
… odor—it may have a disease. So collections conservator Ethel Hellman asks colleagues in the circulation and acquisition departments of Harvard libraries to keep their eyes (and noses) open for … with discoloration or unusual scents, the telltale signs of mold. But by the time a book begins to smell, the fungus …
Issue: January-February 2009
University Endowments: The Gathering Storm
… In reporting investment returns on the endowment through last June 30, Harvard Management … (see here )—cautioned that "We are quite cognizant of the near-term risk of subpar investment returns from many … genuine national and international political and economic crises—Faust said, "We are not immune" to circumstances. The …