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Taking a Page from Knopf
Since becoming director of Harvard University Press (HUP) in September 2017, George Andreou has begun tackling the biggest challenges facing academic publishing—the rise of online scholarly publishing, changed economics in an eBook era, reduced purchasing …
Issue: November-December 2018
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
A New Face of American Evangelicalism
Here's how Walter Kim, Ph.D. ’07, tells the short version of his parents’ migration. After the Korean War, his father escaped communist southern China by crossing the Taedong River hidden inside a barrel. He got to Seoul, where he met and married a young …
Issue: July-August 2023
“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
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
Shruthi Kumar ’24, Senior English Address: “The Power of Not Knowing”
As prepared for delivery. For Kumar’s additional remarks, please read the accompanying article . The Power of Not Knowing Today, we are celebrated for what we know. In fact, for most of our lives, we’ve learned to feel a sense of accomplishment from the …
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
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
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 …
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
Making Space
There were two ways that Junko Yamamoto, M.Arch. ’17, could get to elementary school from her childhood home in Japan’s Gunma Prefecture: she could take a flat, paved path—what she calls “the civilized road”—or she could walk the long way through the …
Issue: March-April 2024