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...across the river, Boston College (BC) is preparing to expand across the street. BC will invest $700 million over the next 10 years in the construction of a new complex of buildings across Commonwealth Avenue from its main campus, the college announced Wednesday. As in Harvard’s Allston development plans, BC is putting interdisciplinary science at the center of its expansion. BC’s new Brighton campus will feature an integrated science complex designed to facilitate research spanning multiple fields, as well as facilities for the fine arts, a university center, a recreation complex, and housing...
...most significant gift the Center has received,” he says. Harvard created CTSMA in 2001 as part of an initiative to build a new museum for modern and contemporary art. Today, with the original proposals long forgotten and the current plans for a museum in Allston postponed, CTSMA has a slightly different role from the one proponents envisioned. “At this point, it is more a virtual reality than a physical one,” says the Center’s director, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro. She and her assistant currently comprise the department, collecting, preserving...
...guess is that it would be a distributive activity,” she said, “but there may be a nucleus of sorts in Allston...
Stephen H. Kargère, Cabot House’s beloved Allston-Burr resident dean, will step down at of the start of the year, House Master Jay Harris announced in an e-mail Tuesday night. Though a historian by training, Kargère said that he will become the assistant dean of academic affairs for the sciences, where he will be responsible for academic planning in the sciences and will advise department chairs. Kargère—who will continue to live in Cabot for the remainder of the year and help with the transition to his replacement?...
...generation of climate regulations. There is no better time for Harvard to show publicly its support for these measures. Besides demonstrating support symbolically, emissions standards will also have pragmatic effects here in Cambridge. For one, they extend Harvard’s recent commitment to building a green campus in Allston to the entire campus, ensuring an environmentally-friendly future for the school’s physical infrastructure. Furthermore, this plan will significantly reduce the 100,000 metric tons of carbon emissions that the Environmental Action Committee estimates FAS generates each year. Finally, Harvard will be able to best Yale...