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Attention to Detail
On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, interspersed amid Michelangelo’s famous frescoes—God’s fingertip reaching out toward Adam’s, the sun and planets coming into creation, Adam and Eve banished from Eden—is a series of 10 bronze-painted medallions …
Issue: March-April 2021
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
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 …
Break Every Chain
Most American schoolchildren learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Parks declined to cede her seat in the white section to a white man. Her refusal and ensuing arrest sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus …
Issue: January-February 2024
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
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2012-2013 Fellows
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced the 51 fellows who will be in residence during part or all of the next academic year. Among them are these Harvard faculty members and their projected work during their fellowships: I. Glenn Cohen, …
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