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Victor Clay
On Victor Clay’ s twenty-first birthday, in 1984, came a knock at the door. “You want to be a deputy sheriff? Be downtown in two hours.” The Olympics were coming to Los Angeles, his future wife had taken a corporate job, and this was how Clay, who’d been …
Issue: September-October 2022
“This Entire Campus Belongs to You”
Sade Abraham’s timing could not have been better. When she arrived at the Graduate School of Education for a one-year master’s program in 2017, she began inquiring about what Harvard does to support first-generation and low-income students. The first in …
Workers and Wages
At a time of national concern about stagnating incomes, rising inequality, and middle-class malaise, the University confronted contentious issues with its lowest-paid workers throughout the autumn, yielding the first strike in more than three decades; a …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2017
Radcliffe Institute Dean Appointed
President Drew Faust on April 28 appointed Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz, a Harvard faculty member since 1986, to the deanship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS). Grosz has been serving as interim dean since July …
Doctoral Director
Allan M. Brandt became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), on January 1. A historian of science, Brandt holds a joint appointment as Kass professor of the history of medicine at Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2008
New Look for Lavietes
Harvard’s Lavietes Pavilion , built in the 1920s as an indoor-track center and converted to basketball use in 1982, is being extensively renovated and modestly expanded. Construction began in May, and as the fall term began, workers had installed new …
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 …
Football: Harvard 45-Princeton 13
When Andy Aurich was introduced last winter as the new Thomas Stephenson family head coach for Harvard football, there was an undercurrent of grumbling, not only that he had never been a head coach before, but perhaps even more about his pedigree: Aurich …
Princeton Preps
Prep schooled. The best training to become a Harvard dean? A Princeton undergraduate education. Or so this evidence, published in the November 7, 2018, issue of our peer magazine, Princeton Alumni Weekly , strongly suggests. Upstaging John Harvard (and, …
Issue: March-April 2019
Cambridge 02138
Editor's Note The September-October issue attracted an unusually large volume of unusually long letters, on academic freedom and free speech, teaching reading, and the continuing campus reactions to the war in the Middle East. We regret the constraints …
Issue: November-December 2024
Commencement Confetti
Where They’ll Work The Crimson ’s senior survey regularly shows the preponderance of graduates who join the workforce opting for jobs in finance, the tech industry, and consulting, no matter the exhortations to public service, teaching, and so on. This …
Issue: July-August 2024
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 …
George Daley Appointed Harvard Medical Dean
Pioneering stem-cell scientist George Q. Daley has been appointed dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS), effective January 1, 2017. He succeeds Jeffrey S. Flier, who concluded nine years of service on July 31; Watts professor of health care policy and …
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
Is the Law a Creature of Corporations?
How have corporations influenced the way law is taught, practiced, and discussed, as well as the very legal system itself? At a January 27-28 Harvard Law School conference, critics of contemporary law—students, attorneys, legal commentators, and public …