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Harvard Announces Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
On Monday afternoon, Harvard announced the appointment of Sheree Ohen as the inaugural associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She comes to the post from Clark University, where she is chief …
Straight-Up News
In July 2018 , Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held a summit meeting in Helsinki, Finland. The U.S. intelligence agencies had by then concluded that Russian interlopers had meddled with the American presidential election of 2016. Dan Coats, President …
Issue: May-June 2021
Create Your Own Spectacular Staycation
Wintertime offers the perfect excuse to cozy up close to home —and, this year, it’s a safe choice, too. Happily, there’s plenty to do in and around Cambridge to keep you warm, comfortable, and content. Prefer to curl up at home with a good book and a …
Issue: January-February 2021
As Supreme Court Takes Up Gun Ban, Greenhouse Is Watching
Did the framers of the Bill of Rights intend the "right to bear arms" to apply only for the purpose of forming a militia, or more widely, for purposes such as self-defense? Is the possibility that American citizens will need to rise up against a …
Nicco Mele
Nicco Mele owes a lot to the Internet. The new director of the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy grew up across Asia and Africa—the son of two foreign-service officers—and first connected with American culture by …
Issue: November-December 2017
Five Honored with Harvard Medal
On Commencement Day , five people received the Harvard Alumni Association's Harvard Medal, awarded annually for outstanding service to the University. Charles W. Collier Ellen Gordon Melvin J. Gordon Harry Parker Susan S. Wallach Charles W. Collier, …
Brevia
The Corporation Replenished Kenneth I. Chenault, J.D. ’76, and Karen Gordon Mills ’75, M.B.A. ’77, have been elected members of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, effective July 1. They succeed retiring members Robert D. Reischauer ’63, …
Issue: May-June 2014
Harvard Professors Recognized for Teaching and Advising
At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on May 1, Dean Michael Smith conferred annual honors for distinguished teaching and advising, in several categories. He named the following faculty members Harvard College Professors , FAS’s highest …
Harvard College Names New Heads of Houses
Danoff dean of Harvard College Rakesh Khurana today announced five new sets of faculty deans, the term for heads of the undergraduate Houses that the College adopted in 2016 . Cabot, Eliot, Kirkland, Quincy, and Winthrop will each have new leadership, …
Dean of Student Life Departs
Dean of student life Suzy M. Nelson will leave at the end of the academic year to accept a post as vice president and dean of the college at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, Harvard College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced today. Under Nelson's …
Sunil Amrith
“Picture the Bay of Bengal as an expanse of tropical water: still and blue in the calm of the January winter, or raging and turbid with silt at the peak of the summer rains,” writes historian Sunil Amrith in Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of …
Issue: September-October 2017
First-Gen Orientation
Last Thursday, University President Lawrence Bacow welcomed his first group of Harvard undergraduates, about 100 participants in the new First-Year Retreat and Experience (FYRE) , a four-day pre-orientation program for first-generation, low-income, and …
Facebook’s Failures
In 2019, when Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz began asking Facebook for information about the inner workings of its complex recommendation system, which pushes personalized content into users’ feeds—and is central to the platform’s immense …
Education Executive
Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s (HGSE) new dean, has already shown she can handle controversy with poise. Three years ago, when she and other researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development …
Issue: September-October 2006
Chapter & Verse
Dale Higbee hopes to learn the source of a comment by Archibald MacLeish: “We know all the answers; it’s the questions we don’t know.” Alethea Black requests the title and author of a poem about how life would be if we grew younger over time. The last …
Issue: January-February 2006