A hello in the snow
In the aftermath of another winter storm, Wednesday morning greeted Harvard College students with a cold chill, snow, slush, and ice as they made their way to classes. There to greet the students on the Harvard shuttle was interim College Dean Donald H. Pfister. Pfister, who is also the Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany, rode the shuttle from Memorial Hall to the river Houses, and then up to the Radcliffe Quad as another way to meet students and hear directly from them. “I think this is really fun,” said Rebecca Grzyb ’16, who boarded the shuttle at the Quad. “Based on his last email, I assumed he would be on the shuttle today.” Throughout the year, Pfister has sent messages on a regular basis to all undergraduates, touching on a wide range of topics: from fungi (the focus of Pfister’s research), news about undergraduates, and the latest book he is reading. In a...