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Honoring the Past, Looking to the Future
As strong and vibrant as they are, the Houses need attention. That’s why the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has begun an ambitious multiyear effort to renew the cherished residential system to meet the needs of 21st-century students.   Read more...

New Quincy

Putting the “New” in Old Quincy
After several years of planning focused on everything from bathroom tile to the meaning of House life, Quincy House Co-Masters Lee and Deborah Gehrke can’t wait for the transformation of Old Quincy to start in June.   Read more...

Brian Young

Brian D. Young ’76
To mark his 35th reunion last year, Brian D. Young made a generous pledge to House renewal.   Read more...

Shiya Wang '13

Strengthening a Global Harvard
Shiya Wang ’13 knew only basic English when she left Wuhan, China, at age 15 to study piano at the acclaimed Juilliard School. As a high school freshman in New York, she enrolled in English as a Second Language—along with a slate of classes that Wang struggled to understand in her nonnative tongue.   Read more...

X.D. Yang

Xiang-Dong (X.D.) Yang ’87, MBA ’92
China had just begun to modernize its economy after the Cultural Revolution when Xiang-Dong (X.D.) Yang ’87, MBA ’92 found himself in Harvard’s famed Economics 10 class, wrestling with basic concepts that other students got intuitively.   Read more...

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