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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
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. …
Kerry Washington Named Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
Kerry Washington has been chosen to receive the 2016 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award, honoring a “talented and socially engaged film, TV, and stage actress who keeps breaking barriers in Hollywood,” the Harvard student group announced on January 6 . …
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 …
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 …
Moving On
To accommodate Harvard Law School’s large new building, an existing garage and dormitory had to be razed. But three historic wooden buildings were saved, making a gingerly trip up the closed Massachusetts Avenue on the weekend of June 23-25—their weight …
Issue: September-October 2007
A Bumper Crop in the National Academy of Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine has elected 100 new members including a dozen Harvard faculty affiliates—an unusually large cohort, and more evidence of the University’s prowess in medicine, life sciences, and public health—plus a couple of other …
Best-selling Author Taps Honors Thesis on Meltdown
The summa cum laude thesis in economics written by A.K. Barnett-Hart ’09 was a useful source for Michael Lewis's just-published book The Big Short, on the Wall Street meltdown and ensuing recession, according to Peter Lattman's " Deal Journal , " a …
Learning How to Disagree
In the weeks following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, Tarek Masoud, Ford Foundation professor of democracy and governance, convened a series of panels at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on the history and future of the Israel-Palestine …
Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Debt Deal
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith used his annual report to colleagues for the 2016-2017 academic year, being released today, to highlight an academic initiative focused on inequality in America; update data on the faculty’s makeup; …
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
The SIGnboard
As a new academic year begins, the Harvard Alumni Association’s Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) are also planning events. Some appear below; learn about others by contacting individual SIGs via http://alumni.harvard.edu/haa/clubs-sigs/sigs-directory . …
Issue: September-October 2014
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
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, …
It’s “Not the Earth that Needs Fixing”
Speaking at the Harvard’s Graduate School of Design’s Class Day, climate activist Karenna Gore ’95 noted the “perfect design” of the planet earth. “Well-located, with a good site and orientation,” she said, with plenty of water and land to support …