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Without Allston, Cramped in Cambridge
With administrators projecting a minimum wait of ten years before laboratories can move to Allston, faculty and students may have to get used to the crunch.
Protesting Apartheid
On an April night in 1986, more than 200 South Africa divestment activists erected a shantytown and a symbolic 16-foot ivory tower in front of University Hall to protest Harvard’s investment in companies doing business in South Africa.
City Sees Urban Renewal
Following zoning amendments passed in the early ’60s, Cambridge began its transformation from a decrepit industrial city to a revived research-focused one.
City Council Votes to Research Development in Kendall, Central Squares
The Cambridge City Council voted 8-0 last Monday to approve the selection of Goody Clancy & Associates, a Boston architecture and planning firm, to research potential business and residential development in Kendall and Central Squares. “Each square has its own identity,” Assistant City Manager for Community Development Brian P. Murphy ’86-87 said. “Kendall and Central are going under transformation.”
Lesley's Art Institute of Boston Moving to Porter
Lesley University has received permission to relocate the AIB from Kenmore Square in Boston to Cambridge’s Porter Square.
Cambridge Schools Consider Reforms
A proposal to separate middle schools from elementary schools in the Cambridge Public System—known as the “Innovation Agenda”—will be discussed by the School Committee meeting on March 8, a week before it is scheduled to come up for a vote.
Panel Discusses Education Gap
A group of panelists agreed that a unified vision and a tireless approach would be needed to close the nationwide “achievement gap.”
Study: Babies Think Bigger Is Better
At an early age, human infants can perceive social hierarchy and recognize physical size as a metric of social dominance, according to a study by psychology postdoctoral fellow Lotte Thomsen.
City Council Discusses Community Benefits
The Cambridge City Council discussed a petition from Education First—a for-profit company that offers a range of programs centered around language learning and cultural exchange—that would expand its Cambridge offices.
Charter School Promotes High Expectations
“Citizenship, Commitment, Scholarship and Courage,” reads a motto painted onto a school hallway.
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Farmers' Market at Harvard
Taking place every Tuesday from June 15-October 26 on the Science Center lawn, the Farmers' Market at Harvard is a project by the HUHDS Food Literacy Project.