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Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Eric Cervini, of Round Rock, Texas, and Lowell House, a history concentrator, will be the Lionel De Jersey Harvard Scholar at …
Issue: July-August 2014
Harvard’s Endowment to Go “Greenhouse-Gas Neutral” by 2050
Harvard’s endowment will become greenhouse-gas (GHG) neutral by 2050, University president Lawrence Bacow announced in an email to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) today, one day before the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day. “With this commitment, …
U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik Removed from IOP Advisory Committee
U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) has been removed from the senior advisory committee of the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Institute of Politics, HKS dean Doug Elmendorf wrote in an announcement today. “Elise has made public assertions …
Beasts of the Big Screen
“We wanted to see dinosaurs in places we’ve never seen them before.” It’s not the sort of mission statement you hear every day, especially since the creatures in question have been extinct for millions of years. But Emily Carmichael ’04 is talking about …
Issue: July-August 2022
Shedding Light on Life
The scenes are familiar from biology textbooks. A long string of DNA is copied to form a matching strand. A virus infects a cell by stealing through its membrane. Two white blood cells meet and confer before launching an immune attack. In textbooks, all …
Issue: May-June 2008
Blanche Calloway, Cab’s Enterprising Older Sister
Before swing-era singer, actor, and bandleader Cab Calloway was a household name, he wasn’t even the biggest name in his household. That distinction went to Blanche Calloway, his vocalist older sister and the first woman to lead an all-male jazz …
Issue: May-June 2022
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
Derek C. Bok , Harvard’s president from 1971 to 1991 and again on an interim basis during the 2006-2007 academic year, faced the challenge of helping the University recover from the shattering Vietnam-era crisis that divided the campus and threatened the …
Issue: March-April 2024
Back on Top
As so often happens, The Game came down to the end. This time for Harvard it was a bitter one. On a blustery day at Yale Bowl, the Crimson had come from behind to take an 18-17 fourth-quarter lead, then saw Yale go back ahead 23-18. Now Harvard had …
Issue: January-February 2024
Who Owns the Robots Rules the World
Robots And Computers Could Take Half Our Jobs Within the Next 20 Years”…“Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work by 2045”…“White House Predicts Robots May Take Over Many Jobs That Pay $20 Per Hour”…“Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour”…“Why the …
Issue: May-June 2016
Puritan Party Time
"Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Of making books about Harvard there is no end, and here’s another, Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience, coming in May. The author is Andrew Schlesinger ’70, son and …
Issue: May-June 2005
How Harvard Profited On Keeping Time
Today, most people don’t think much about the accuracy of clocks. A functioning cell phone displays the correct time right away, no effort needed. But in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, coordinating clocks across the world was complicated and …
Issue: September-October 2021
“What Happened to the Dream?”
Rolling back abortion rights, ending affirmative action, and threatening democratic processes: sometimes, says former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84 , she feels like “forward progress in the world has stopped yet again.” On Wednesday …
President Bacow's Commencement Remarks
As prepared for delivery May 25, 2023 I suspect many of you are sitting here today, as newly minted Harvard graduates, wondering what the future holds for you. I can relate to that. This is my last Commencement, and I am pondering the same question. …
Presidential Portrait
On the chill, blustery afternoon of May 1, a piece of Harvard’s living history lit up the Faculty Room in University Hall. The occasion was the unveiling of the portrait of Neil L. Rudenstine, who served as the University’s twenty-sixth president from …
Issue: July-August 2006
Larry Wilmore Follows His Path
In the summer of 1982 , then-college junior Larry Wilmore traveled to Rhode Island to sell books door-to-door. Now an Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and actor, Wilmore still thinks back to his summer working for Southwestern Advantage. He learned a …