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...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. “I said that it would...
...It’s a guy thing period,” said Michael van Valkenburgh, the distinguished American landscape architect, when I told him over the telephone what Gomes had said. “Even if it’s a guy thing, I hope you don’t think it’s a bad thing.” I said I didn’t mind them...
...Valkenburgh is the man who saved Harvard Yard. In the early 90s, when the Yard’s canopy was slowly thinning due to Dutch elm disease, the task for replanting had become urgent. The University then convened a replanting committee, which van Valkenburgh led, one that is largely responsible for the way Harvard Yard looks today...
...Yard, he said, was landscaped “based on an extension of what we were able to see in historic photographs….My sense is that there have never been flowers in the Yard historically.” Since van Valkenburgh had done a lot of work in Princeton and some in Yale, I asked him about the other Ivies. “There are of course other schools in the Ivies that have a tradition of more flowers…. I’m not a campus historian, but there seems to be a very different idea...
...degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1999. She earned a master’s in anthropology in 2002 and would have graduated this November. She met Wood while at Harvard, and the two were married last summer, according to fellow archaeology graduate student Parker Van Valkenburgh. Rossel had flown to the United States to visit Wood a few days before the accident occurred, Van Valkenburgh said. Rossel had a post-doctoral position at the University of Copenhagen. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America David Carrasco called her a “deeply valued member?...