Featured series 
Tag: Campus and Facilities
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New life for McKinlock
The second House renewal test project, Leverett’s McKinlock Hall, is scheduled to begin in June. The project will result in greater common and recreational space for students, which will help foster community and nurture learning.
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Hidden Spaces: Tower classrooms
Hidden Spaces is part of a series about lesser-known spaces at Harvard. The classrooms in Memorial Hall are a beautiful example.
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Houses Today
House Masters and former students discuss learning outside the classroom and how the housing system enriches life and community at Harvard.
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Tremendous Pipes
A C.B. Fisk organ, Opus 139, was unveiled Easter Sunday in Harvard’s Memorial Church.
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Piping up, to good effect
After years of planning, an effort once spearheaded by the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes to install a new organ in the Memorial Church will fill its halls with music.
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Harvard Innovation Lab Opens in Allston
The lab includes academic space, such as classrooms and meeting areas for both undergraduate and graduate students. It also provides public areas and meeting rooms designed to foster project work, as well as business development resources for Allston-Brighton and greater Boston — a population full of entrepreneurs that Harvard seeks to both help and tap…
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Library Park opens in Allston
Harvard and Boston celebrated the opening of Library Park in Allston, a new community space on Harvard-donated land. Complete with fountains, footpaths, and 150 new trees, the 1.74-acre green space is located behind the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library. A hallmark of sustainability, lifelong residents remembered its industrial past, while praising it transformation…
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Library Park opens in Allston
Harvard and the city of Boston open Library Park, a 1.74-acre green space in Allston.
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Turn off the Lights
A sustainability music video produced by Harvard University students Akshay Sharma ’14, Maura Church ’14 and Molly O’Laughlin ’11 in anticipation of Earth Day 2011. It was presented at Harvard’s second annual Green Carpet Awards sustainability celebration and recognition event. Miranda J. Morrison ’14 also assisted with writing the lyrics.
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Keeping creature company
Rosado enjoys managing museum’s massive collection of amphibians
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Keeping creature company
For 33 years, José Rosado has taken care of more than 300,000 amphibians and reptiles in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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Sustainability at Harvard: We are a living lab
A video tour through five case studies of sustainability at Harvard, including: * Student Peer-to-Peer Programs Educate and Inspire * Innovative Solutions that Serve as Models for Other * Greener, Healthier, More Efficient Buildings * Rethinking Campus Operations * Building a Culture of Sustainability
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Harvard Stadium
A history of Harvard Stadium and how it changed the face of American football.
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Harvard’s green commitment
Harvard’s fall 2008 sustainability celebration included panels, tours, fairs, film screening, coffee-house style discussions – and the very convenient appearance of former Vice President Al Gore.
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Memorial Church
The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes talks about the Memorial Church, a place for “trouble, sorrow and celebration.”
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Arnold Arboretum: A winter tour
In 1872, whaling merchant James Arnold’s will transferred a section of his Jamaic Plain estate to the fellows and president of Harvard College,. The Arnold Arboretum has since performed a unique function as Boston’s own living open-air museum.
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Tree huggers
The Arnold Arboretum’s program for preschoolers that serves the area Head Start brings very excited kids to a lovely, engaging and stimulating nature setting.
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FDR slept here
The toilet runs, there’s graffiti on the windows and a former resident left behind some belongings in this historic Harvard dormitory.