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Of Ants and Earth
Formal retirement hasn't slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997, Wilson—the father of sociobiology and biophilia, the most acute student of ants among contemporary scholars, …
Issue: March-April 2003
Why the Internet of Things Is Big Business
For those outside Silicon Valley , the “Internet of Things” is a buzzword often associated with seemingly superfluous toys for early-adopting consumers: the expensive Apple watch, the oft-ridiculed Google Glass, or a “smart” refrigerator that senses when …
Issue: July-August 2015
Elevating Climate Issues
In early September, as students were settling into their fall classes, the University announced the creation of a new post, vice provost for climate and sustainability, that signaled an elevated level of coordinated action and research on global warming. …
Issue: November-December 2021
Pete Seeger Dies at 94
Pete Seeger ’40, who dropped out of Harvard in the late 1930s to pursue a lifelong career as a singer and political activist, died on Monday at the age of 94. An iconic figure in folk music, Seeger as an undergraduate joined the tenor banjo society and …
Physics Ph.D. Appointed President of Williams College
Theoretical physicist Adam F. Falk, Ph.D. '91, has been appointed the seventeenth president of Williams College , effective next April. Falk, age 44, is dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins, a position he assumed on an interim …
Seniors Help Houses Thrive
Recognizing the importance of House life, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) honored seniors Gabriela D.M. “Gaby” Ruiz-Colón ’16, of Quincy House, and Jordan Weiers ’16, of Winthrop House, as the 2015 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars during the …
Issue: November-December 2015
A President Mended, A University Challenged
President Lawrence S. Bacow, recovered from COVID-19, spoke about his condition, and Harvard’s, during a telephone conversation on Friday, April 3, from his official residence, Elmwood. He has been working there since March 14, according to his …
“The Work of the Public Health Leader Is the Work of the Herdsman”
Long before starting his current role at the World Bank, which now includes helping coordinate the organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Doctor Muhammad Ali Pate grew up one of 10 children in a family of herdsmen in Nigeria—what “might seem …
Summer Undergraduate Fellowship
The summer Undergraduate Fellowship provides summer support for a student to join Harvard Magazine’ s editorial staff as a reporter and writer, while also receiving an introduction to the business aspects of magazine operations. Current Harvard …
Harvard Disburses $1 Million for Climate Change Research
The Climate Change Solutions Fund has awarded $1 million in grants to multidisciplinary research programs across five different schools at Harvard. Launched by President Drew Faust in 2014 with alumni support, the fund aims to foster development of …
How the Ivy Tournaments Began
The original decision to create post-season basketball tournaments in the Ivy League was hard fought, and decades in the making. The first documented clamorings date to at least 1995, when a news report discussed interest in the possibility from Yale’s …
Klarman Construction
Klarman Construction: A mid January view of Klarman Hall, the new auditorium-conference-convening complex scheduled for completion later this year at Harvard Business School. The facility, which will replace Burden Hall and define a new campus quadrangle …
Issue: March-April 2018
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
Two Harvard Students Named Marshall Scholars
The 2015 class of Marshall Scholars includes Michael George ’14 (’15), of Quincy House and Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, and Anna Hagen ’15, of Lowell House and Brooklyn. George, a government concentrator, plans to study comparative social policy at …
What Happens to Harvard’s Workers?
Update, March 29, 2020: Harvard announced Friday that it would continue to provide pay and benefits to its direct employees, including those who work part-time, as well as to contract workers, through May 28. “We applaud Harvard for doing the right …