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...upcoming year, according to Wayne P. Carbone, the director of Harvard Landscape Services who tends the plots with his crew. The goal is to make all of Harvard fully organic within three years and expand the organic landscape management into other parts of Cambridge. The project was conceived by GSD professor Michael Van Valkenburgh, who came up with the idea as he strolled through the Yard last spring with University President Drew G. Faust. “She asked me what the one thing I would change about the Yard is,” he said...
...names, and miniscule storage capacity of 40 megabytes. FAS Information Technology claims to be working to respond to these student concerns, but change has been slow in coming. While various improvements have supposedly been considered, concrete plans for reform are yet to emerge. Meanwhile, the Graduate School of Design (GSD) has embraced a proactive solution, outsourcing their e-mail needs to Google. Since last fall, the GSD has assigned all students a “gsd.harvard.edu” account that operates using a Gmail interface. Harvard College should consider a similar solution. The main changes that need...
...percent last year.“I wish it were as easy as saying we could just outsource to Gmail,” Selsby said. “But it’s a very complex situation.”Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) began a Gmail pilot in the fall of 2007, assigning a Gmail account to every incoming student. Students then use the Gmail interface to access the e-mail that was sent to a “gsd.harvard.edu” account.Yet relying on an outside provider may lead to privacy issues...
...assisting Farmer in designing the modern and sanitary hospitals integral to PIH’s mission. Previously, the only hospital design had come from Farmer’s amateur napkin sketches. These napkins and lack of real architectural support inspired Murphy to get involved, spearheading a movement with fellow GSD students to build an innovative hospital prototype in Rwanda...
...special concentrator in Urban Studies, of the application process. As a transfer student in the fall of 2005, Mladenova began her sophomore year at Harvard as a History of Art and Architecture concentrator—but she quickly found her interests resonated more in the Graduate School of Design (GSD). After taking urban planning professor Margaret Crawford’s GSD 5101: “Histories and Theories of Urban Interventions,” Mladenova turned to the Department of Special Concentrations to pursue her interest in Urban Studies. Fortunately, Mladenova found urban planning professor Jerold S. Kayden...