Tag: Harvard Allston Science Complex

  • Campus & Community

    Sharing excitement for learning

    Undergraduates who are mentors at the Harvard Allston Ed Portal say that in the end they learned as much as the young students they helped.

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    Q&A on Harvard’s Allston plan

    In a letter to the Allston community sent earlier today, Harvard President Drew Faust outlined the University’s path forward for its presence in Allston. The Gazette sat down with Executive Vice President Katherine Lapp to learn more about what’s on the drawing boards.

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    Harvard may alter some expansion plans

    Harvard president Drew Faust indicated yesterday that there is a strong possibility the design of its much-anticipated $1 billion science complex, at the heart of the university’s expansion into Allston, may be scaled back as Harvard grapples with new financial realities….

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    Allston projects demonstrate commitment to sustainability

    In the future, Harvard will go beyond traditional ivy and red brick to create campuses with more energy-efficient buildings that minimize water usage and produce low air emissions.

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    A year of Allston planning

    During the past academic year construction began on the Allston Science Complex, the first project in the multidecade extension of Harvard’s campus in the Allston neighborhood of Boston.

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    HUSEC examines interdisciplinary and interSchool science efforts

    When the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC) gathered for its first meeting late last April, it was charged by not one, but two Harvard presidents. Then president-designate and now president Drew Faust told the 18 members of the new committee that theirs is both a unique and “historic” body, created to forge meaningful…

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    The three green ‘r’s: Reduce, reuse, recycle

    On a snowy Friday morning last week (Feb. 22), a truck pulled up in front of 90 Windom St., a two-story brick building on the site of Harvard’s new Allston Science Complex. The former commercial space is the last of the structures to be cleared before construction begins.

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    City board gives approval to Allston Science Complex plans

    Harvard University has received the approval from the Board of Directors of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), the city’s planning and economic development agency, for plans for the Harvard Allston Science Complex, the first new academic building of the University’s planned extended campus in Allston. Following completion of the zoning approval, construction can begin. Formal…