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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
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 …
Harvard Confers 11 Undergraduate Degrees
Harvard has conferred degrees on 11 undergraduates who were denied their diplomas on May 23 because they were suspended or placed on probation for violating University standards pertaining to the statement of rights and responsibilities for actions …
As Coronavirus Spreads, Harvard Cancels Athletics
After University administrators informed College students that they must move out of their dorms by 5 p.m. on Sunday, Harvard Athletics began to make its own cancellations—a prudent decision, but a brutal blow to athletes, coaches, and staff. On …
Brevia
Journalism’s Decline What befell the print news media during the digital transition? John Huey, former editor in chief of Time Inc.; Martin Nisenholtz, former senior vice president of digital operations at The New York Times Company; and Paul Sagan, …
Issue: November-December 2013
A Night at Gustazo
Since 2011, Gustazo Cuban Kitchen & Bar has grown from a homey storefront in Belmont, serving a handful of authentic specials, to two locations—in Cambridge and a new Moody Street, Waltham, site—that can seat more than 500 diners a night. Such leaps are …
Issue: March-April 2020
Marty Baron Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013, will be the principal speaker at the afternoon exercises for Harvard’s 369th Commencement ceremonies, scheduled for May 28, in Tercentenary Theatre. At the Post , according to …
The Pandemic’s “Perfect and Terrible Storm”
Many viruses are known to be seasonal, but as COVID-19 cases in late October reached a record high in the United States, even epidemiologists who have been warning for months that the pandemic will worsen with the approach of Northern hemisphere winter …
Getting Close to the Past
Clint Smith, who received a Ph.D. in education from Harvard in 2020, has written an important and timely book about race in America. But How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America is also a book about education: what we …
Issue: November-December 2021
How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains
Emerging evidence shows that exposure to air pollution increases the incidence and progression of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurocognitive diseases , according to Francesca Dominici. She spoke as part of a panel on how air pollution affects the …
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 …
The Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Lawrence H. Summers and PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer. For updates, visit www.harvardmagazine.com or www.commencementoffice.harvard.edu . Commencement …
Issue: May-June 2006
Great Trepidations
Beginning in late summer (I think , but can’t be sure about the dates--I deleted the e-mails from my in-box before deleting them from my trash, working as thoroughly as if they had been electronic vampires), and then with increasing desperation throughout …
Issue: May-June 2010
News Briefs
Faculty-Dean Denouement During the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on May 7, President Lawrence S. Bacow was asked his views on the turmoil at Winthrop House, where student protesters had loudly sought the ouster of their faculty deans, Ronald …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Issue: July-August 2019
Building a Better World
Buried beneath the ground at the highest point in Poughkeepsie, New York, sits a 36,000-square-foot concrete cistern built in 1923 to hold the city’s water supply. Replaced in 2017 after it sprang a leak, drained and fenced off from passersby, the cistern …
Issue: May-June 2023