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New Schedule, New Math
At its regularly scheduled meeting this afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS): adopted a new, uniform schedule for classes, beginning in 2018, anticipating the expansion of the campus across the Charles River in 2020; discussed undergraduates’ …
Harvard Invests in MIT’s The Engine
MIT-created venture firm The Engine, which aims to provide capital required to tackle difficult technological problems, has completed a $230-million funding round, including Harvard as an important new partner in the venture, and bringing its total …
“A Moral Obligation”
“I tell people the first 60 years are the hardest,” jokes Charles Berlin ’58, Ph.D. ’63. He would know: Berlin has headed Harvard Library’s Judaica Division since September 1962, when he was a 26-year-old graduate student finishing a dissertation in …
Issue: September-October 2022
David M. Rubenstein to Join Harvard Corporation
The University announced today that David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, the private-equity and investment-management firm , will join the Harvard Corporation in July 2017. Although Rubenstein is an alumnus of Duke (where he …
Chapter & Verse
David Azzolina writes: “Psychotherapist Alfred Adler is quoted as having said, ‘The only normal people are people you don’t know well enough yet,’ or words to that effect. I have not been able to verify that quote with a legitimate source. I even wrote …
Issue: March-April 2015
America’s Riven Politics
Evan Osnos ’98, who reported on a changing People’s Republic of China for The New Yorker , was struck by the changes in the United States when he returned home to begin reporting for the magazine from Washington, D.C. In 2021, he published Wildland: …
Threats Foreign and Domestic
During a wide-ranging discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday evening, Joseph S. Nye spoke about the threats facing the country, the limits—and possibilities—of American power, and Harvard’s current “moment of crisis.” Nye, the University …
Note to Readers
Lydialyle Gibson joined the masthead last autumn as a writer and editor. One of the features she wrote for the University of Chicago’s magazine, her prior perch, has justly been recognized as the best alumni-magazine article of 2015—the highest accolade …
Issue: September-October 2016
Douglas W. Elmendorf Appointed Harvard Kennedy School Dean
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Ph.D. ’89, who concluded his service as director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO—read his vita here) in March, has been named dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, effective in January. The time between the departure of …
Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88
Robert Gardner ’48, A.M. ’58, the noted anthropological filmmaker who founded the Harvard Film Study Center, has died of cardiac arrest at age 88, as The New York Times and The Boston Globe have reported. Gardner taught filmmaking in the department of …
Engineering a School’s Future
One hundred days into his new position as dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and after consultation with faculty members in the school and across the University, Francis “Frank” J. Doyle III shared …
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Issue: January-February 2016
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Infrastructure and Olympics I have long felt that a large, modern city cannot function efficiently without free public transportation (see “Why Can’t We Move?” by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, July-August, page 42). The key words here are “efficiently” and …
Issue: September-October 2015
Harvardians Short-listed for National Book Awards
University affiliates were named finalists in all four National Book Award categories today. In nonfiction, Kemper professor of American history Jill Lepore was nominated for Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. A Bancroft Prize winner …
“To Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind”
A joyous occasion was also a somber one today, as eight ROTC graduates were commissioned into the United States armed forces. The nation’s highest-ranking military officer and principal military adviser to the President, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …
The National Academy Elects Eight Harvard Professors
The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members , including eight Harvard professors, drawn principally from the medical and mathematics faculties—but also including a recent Nobel laureate in economics. The new members are: Dennis Gaitsgory, …