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Ice Cream and Vinegar
Seventeen authors, several of them Harvardians, reread a book or a poem (or the Sgt. Pepper lyrics) that impressed them in their youths and write about how it—of course, they—have changed. Rereadings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20) is edited by …
Issue: September-October 2005
“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 …
The Modern World Reconceived
Who are the protagonists of The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries , Saltonstall research professor of history Charles Maier’s new history of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? They are networks: …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvard Law Dean Martha Minow to Step Down
Martha Minow, who became dean of Harvard Law School in 2009 , announced today that she would step down at the end of the academic year. Her message to the community emphasizd her plan to return to “the work of teaching and scholarship, and to more robust …
Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Receives $400-Million Endowment Gift
John A. Paulson, M.B.A. ’80, has given a $400-million endowment gift to Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)—the largest in University history, and the second enormous endowment gift, which bears naming rights, to a Harvard school …
On My Honor
Harvard undergraduates now have an honor code—spelling out expectations of integrity in their academic work, as legislated by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) last spring. This fall, they will have to “affirm their awareness ” (emphasis added) of …
Issue: May-June 2015
Football: Harvard 35-Holy Cross 34
We elderly Harvard football fans would like to give our most heartfelt thanks to Dan Curran. We mean heartfelt literally. With his team having just scored a touchdown on the final play of regulation to pull within a point, the Crusaders’ head coach …
Bringing Minds and Money to Bear on Teaching
Six days before the public launch of The Harvard Campaign, in which the University will “foreground” pedagogy and learning , according to President Drew Faust, two news announcements underscored the scope of that initiative: Provost Alan M. Garber …
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 …
Faculty, Family, Diversity
In her first annual report, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) senior advisor to the dean on diversity issues has highlighted recent results in recruiting female faculty members, and some of the real obstacles to effecting change in the composition …
Issue: January-February 2007
International Investments
Harvard’s global ambitions to study and know more about the world, and to send more students out into it, were triply boosted at the end of the spring term with the creation of a new post—vice provost for international affairs—and the …
Issue: July-August 2006
Brevia
Heads of Houses Lakshminarayanan “Maha” Mahadevan and Amala Mahadevan Photograph courtesy of Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Amala Mahadevan Martignetti professor of philosophy Sean D. Kelly and senior lecturer on philosophy Cheryl Chen have been appointed …
Issue: July-August 2017
Studying Zika
To understand the outbreak of a disease like Zika, and ultimately to fight it, researchers must work on multiple levels. There are questions of molecules and chemical processes: how does the virus infect a cell, and what components provoke an immune …
Play Ball
Baseball Harvard (21-20-1 overall) finished the Ivy season with the league’s best record, 14-6, winning the tough Red Rolfe division by one game over Dartmouth. Gehrig division winner Princeton brought an 11-9 record (and 1-7 mark against Rolfe opponents) …
Issue: July-August 2006
Numbers Game
Although the College has developed the roster of courses for the reenvisioned General Education portion of undergraduates’ curriculum , debuting this coming fall semester, a final piece of the puzzle remains. Alongside three divisional distribution …