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Hertzberg, Marx, Wood Score Award Nominations
The list of finalists for this year's National Magazine Awards includes three with Harvard connections.
Arts Administration in Challenging Times
Michael M. Kaiser, known for steering the Kennedy Center and other troubled arts organizations back to health, shares his secrets with a Harvard audience.
Endowment Distribution to Be Reduced 8 Percent; Budget Cuts Loom
Distributions from the endowment will be reduced 8 percent in each of the next two fiscal years; that action sets the stage for significant budget cuts.
A Walk through History, with Justice Ginsburg as Guide
The Supreme Court justice speaks at a Radcliffe Institute conference on gender and the law.
Cherry A. Murray Named SEAS Dean
Murray comes to Harvard from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and was previously a senior vice president at Bell Laboratories.
Vice President Sally Zeckhauser to Retire
The University's longest-serving senior administrator, Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration, will retire at the end of the academic year.
Stanford Imposes Deeper Cuts, Too
Updated. Citing the deepening economic and financial crises, Stanford has decided to make deeper expense cuts in the next fiscal year; Yale recently imposed deeper cuts, too.
Jim Yong Kim Named Dartmouth President
Kim directs Harvard's François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and is known for his involvement in tuberculosis and AIDS relief work.
Woods Gets Honorable Discharge, Must Repay Tuition
Anthony Woods, M.P.P. ’08—a U.S. Army captain who had served two tours in Iraq—was dismissed from the military after coming out as gay.
Harvard Economists' Take on the Financial Crisis
A new webpage aggregates the views of professors including Martin Feldstein, Gregory Mankiw, Kenneth Rogoff, and many others.
Love’s Labors
Experiencing new partners in the second half of life
Drat Those Vandals!
A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley