Word: agassiz
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...student dancer involved in Harvard University’s Dance Program, I had heard about the upcoming move of the program from Radcliffe’s Agassiz House, where the Dance Program has resided for over 40 years, to a new facility in the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC). While taking the shuttle to class every morning was an unpleasant thought, I found it much more appealing than having to take the shuttle back to a River house after an exhausting late-night dance rehearsal...
...Harvard last fall, I encountered a situation that had been developing for several years. The impetus for the move to the QRAC started in 1999, when the new dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Drew Faust decided to reclaim the buildings of Radcliffe for the Institute, including Agassiz House and the Rieman Center, which Harvard’s Dance Program had been renting from the Institute for offices and studio/performance space...
Mayr, who was born in Kempten, Germany, in 1904, was a member of the Harvard faculty for over half a century. He joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) as Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in 1953 after holding a position at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He was also curator of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology from...
Scott V. Edwards, a student of Mayr’s and his successor to the Agassiz professorship, remembered his first encounter with his mentor. It was prior to his own overseas research, when Mayr told him to “write, write, write...
Bloomstein said Harvard intends to begin construction by June on two raised intersections designed to slow traffic around the Baldwin School in Agassiz...