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Harvard Corporation Elects Shirley Tilghman
Molecular biologist and developmental geneticist Shirley M. Tilghman— 2004 Harvard honorand and Radcliffe Medalist—now has a new Crimson credential to go with her tiger-hued service at Princeton University, where she was president from 2001 to 2013 and …
An Auspicious View
The effect takes a moment to sink in: a double-sided folding fan, opulently painted in gold, silver, white, and azurite blue. On one side, the instantly recognizable profile of Mount Fuji, with its long, snow-covered slopes sweeping up toward the …
Issue: November-December 2020
Vita: Joseph T. Walker
In 1934, chemist Joseph T. Walker, Ph.D. ’33, took on the task of creating a crime-detection laboratory for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Using science in crime detection wasn’t new—Arthur Conan Doyle had envisioned it in his Sherlock Holmes …
Issue: November-December 2015
Special Gifts
IMPACT | OPPORTUNITES | TESTIMONIALS As Harvard University pursues exciting opportunities—from the arts and engineering sciences to ever-wider international engagement— Harvard Magazine is committed to responding with coverage, providing …
Commencement Confetti
Where They’ll Work The Crimson ’s senior survey regularly shows the preponderance of graduates who join the workforce opting for jobs in finance, the tech industry, and consulting, no matter the exhortations to public service, teaching, and so on. This …
Issue: July-August 2024
Senior Fellow William Lee on Harvard’s Strategic Challenges
The University’s governance reforms, unveiled in late 2010 , expanded the size of the Harvard Corporation, enabling it to broaden the range of expertise among its members and thereby populate newly created standing committees for better oversight of …
Harvard COOP’s Major Makeover
Taking advantage of the pandemic-induced reduction of activity in Harvard Square, the Harvard Coop has closed its main store to accomplish a major renovation in one concerted effort. “We’re bringing it back to its bones,” said Coop president Jerry Murphy …
Football: Harvard 38, Yale 19
On Saturday at the Yale Bowl, Justice was swift. Justice was sure-footed. Justice was elusive. Justice prevailed. With magical wide receiver Justice Shelton-Mosley ’19 scoring three touchdowns, Harvard defeated Yale 38-19 to win The Game for the ninth …
The Glory of Antiques
For years, Robert I. Owens ’68 and his wife, Elizabeth, lived with their children in the grand 1837 Greek Revival row house with hardly anything in it. “The kids rode their tricycles across the open floor of the double living room,” he says with a smile. …
Issue: September-October 2005
Stephanie Gil Helps Robots Work Better Together
Stephanie Gil’s first exposure to robot teams didn’t even happen on this planet. During her freshman year at Cornell, she interned with NASA and participated in the agency’s Mars Exploration Rover mission. NASA sent two robots named “Spirit” and …
Harvard College Delays General-Education Curriculum
Harvard undergraduates resuming classes for the new semester today may be surprised by the announcement, contained within College dean Rakesh Khurana's welcome-back message , that the revised General Education curriculum, scheduled to begin in the fall of …
Harvard Men Keep Their Edge, Beat Columbia and Cornell
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Following the Harvard men’s basketball team’s disappointing losses to Holy Cross and Dartmouth earlier this season, analysts offered a range of explanations for what ailed the Crimson. Some …
"I can no longer support the president"
Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14. In an interview following the official announcement two weeks later (“Harper concludes service on Harvard Corporation”), he said, “I have reached the judgment that I can no longer …
Issue: September-October 2005
A Wildlife Painter's Fantastic Beasts
When the conversation turns to frogs, wildlife artist Bradley Scott Davis ’97 starts talking faster. “Now, this guy right here,” he says—pointing to a recently completed painting on his studio wall, loosely abstract and thickly textured, depicting a …
Issue: March-April 2022
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
Sometime in the mid-1980s, comics, a centuries-old art form, became legitimate. Prompted by a sudden influx of adult-themed and thematically heavy works like Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen , critics, seemingly with one …
Issue: March-April 2022