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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 …
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
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
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 …
Harvard Seeks Partner for Enterprise Research Campus
On Friday, The Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC ), the entity responsible for developing the University’s “Enterprise Research Campus” (ERC) commercial zone, plans to send a request for proposal (RFP) to developers nationwide. [ Corrected June 14, …
Chris Pratt Is Man of the Year
After announcing last week that Amy Poehler will be Woman of the Year , yet another Parks and Recreation actor—comedian Chris Pratt—will take center stage in Farkas Hall as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, the group announced today. “We vehemently deny …
Harvard Medalists
Five alumni—Charles J. “Charlie” Egan Jr. ’54, Michael E.A. Gellert ’53, Thomas W. Lentz Jr., Ph.D. ’85, Sandra Ohrn Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the University” on May 28, …
Issue: July-August 2015
Harvard College Outlines Fall Options—with Instruction Remaining Remote
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today outlined the three planning scenarios for how Harvard College might operate for the fall 2020 semester —from “minimal” to “moderate” to “full” residential density—and the health and safety hurdles …
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
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
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, …
Precedent-Setting Presidential Search
The search for a successor to President Lawrence H. Summers will involve expanded outreach to the Harvard community. In a March 30 news release, the University announced that, consistent with past practice, the Corporation had formed a search committee …
Issue: May-June 2006
Re-naming Lowell House?
As they prepared to assume the faculty deanship of the renovated Lowell House last summer, David Laibson and Nina Zipser announced they would relocate certain portraits—notably that of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard’s president from 1909 to 1933 , …
A Harvard Senior’s Call to the Home Front
I submitted my senior thesis the day before undergraduate Armageddon. Monday, March 9, five days before spring break. I stood on the steps of Widener Library holding the 108 double-spaced pages I spent the past year writing and smiled for the traditional …
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. …