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The Man in the Top Hat
One of my favorite parts of Commencement is the tall man in the top hat. For many who attend Harvard’s graduation, the Commencement afternoon speaker is the main attraction. Audience members know that, if they brave the heat of the Cambridge spring and …
At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum
This is the fourth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s new series, “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, and listen to while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and spring …
“Neither Comfort nor Cover”
In a February message to the University community, President Lawrence S. Bacow announced that Harvard had “failed” Terry Karl, now an emerita professor of government at Stanford, when it did not take seriously her complaints concerning sexual harassment …
Issue: May-June 2021
Fairfield Porter
In 1975, Fairfield Porter, A.B. 1928, accepted a commission for the Harvard Club of New York to paint former club president Alfred (Al) Gordon, A.B. 1923, M.B.A. ’25, whose portrait would join those of previous presidents lining the walls. Eschewing the …
Issue: September-October 2024
Job Offers
Job Offers Several College programs match students with paid and unpaid jobs and internships. To find out more about how alumni can provide these learning and working opportunities, contact the offices listed below. The Radcliffe Externships program …
Issue: November-December 2004
Honoris Causa
Three women and eight men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 350th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Charles Hard Townes. His Nobel Prize-winning research in quantum electronics gave rise to the maser and the laser. An …
Nancy Coleman Appointed Dean of Continuing Education
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today announced that Nancy Coleman, currently associate provost and director of strategic growth initiatives at Wellesley College, will become dean of the Division of Continuing Education (DCE, the …
Grinding Out Lawyers—by Grinding Down Students
Judge Learned Hand recalled that his Harvard Law School professors taught him the Spartan ethic which helped make him a legal giant. “In the universe of truth,” he said in 1958, during a public lecture, “they lived by the sword: they asked no quarter of …
Issue: January-February 2021
Alumni Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs Committee Awards honor individuals who provide exemplary service to a Harvard Club or Shared Interest Group, as well as to clubs and SIGs that have organized exceptional programming. Awards were presented to the following recipients …
Issue: March-April 2010
Greenland’s Fingerprint in Rising Seas
Scientists who study the impact of melting glaciers and ice sheets have for the first time detected the fingerprint of a melting ice sheet, as it creates distinctive patterns of change to global sea levels. Newly released satellite data allowed …
Mumblecore’s Maestro
If this interview with Andrew Bujalski—in a chichi Manhattan hotel, the morning of the theatrical release of his latest movie, Results —were a scene in one of his films, it might go something like this. The camera would measure every inch of awkward …
Issue: September-October 2015
Bioentrepreneurship
The University’s encouragement of entrepreneurial endeavors now is three-legged: on November 3, the student-focused Harvard Innovation Lab (2011) and alumni-oriented Harvard Launch Lab (2014) were joined along Western Avenue by the 15,000-square-foot …
Issue: January-February 2017
News Briefs
College Admissions Challenges In late june , the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the limited use of race in admissions decisions, ruling in its second pass at Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin that properly constrained processes for reviewing applicants …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Pandemic's Unequal Toll
As the data from the COVID-19 pandemic begin to accumulate, a familiar and disturbing trend has emerged: the disproportionate toll on poorer Americans and communities of color. According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control, black Americans …
Art Across Borders
In 2018, when Osman Khalid Waheed ’93 and Qudsia Rahim were organizing the inaugural Lahore Biennale, a large-scale international contemporary art exhibition, they ran into a problem: there were no contemporary art museums in the Pakistani city to display …