December 22, 2009

Boston Globe honors Warren, Paulus

The newspaper recognizes the financial watchdog, and picks American Repertory Theatre's Diane Paulus as a runner-up.

Citing her role as chair of the congressional oversight panel that monitors the Troubled Asset Relief Program--the federal mechanism for shoring up troubled banks and other financial institutions--the Boston Globe Magazine named Gottlieb professor of law Elizabeth Warren the Bostonian of the Year.

See here for Warren's Harvard Magazine articles on bankruptcy and the middle class, and on a proposed financial-products safety commission--the latter an element in congressional proposals for financial-reform legislation.

President Alan M. Garber used traditional Memorial Church address to consider the unique qualities of human intelligence and learning.

Due to rain, the University held dual Convocation ceremonies for the Class of 2030 in Sanders Theatre.

The University will compensate families of those whose remains were sold and establish a scholarship to honor anatomical donors.

The federal government has launched unprecedented actions against the University. Here’s a guide.

The two birds will be on display at Harvard this summer.

All That’s Unseen charts the Harvard graduate’s uneasy journey from Appalachia to Cambridge and back.

David Battat promotes alumni engagement.

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

The Gretel and the Great War author on how the Lampoon derailed his science career—and set him on a literary path.