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Growth Spurt
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown more in the past nine years than in the previous four decades. In a letter distributed to faculty members early in April, Dean Jeremy R. Knowles sought to explain the dynamics of this spurt (the first since …
Issue: May-June 2007
On Campus, Concisely
Race Debate, and Defacement Harvard Law School (HLS) was rattled in November after black tape was pasted over portraits of its African-American professors in Wasserstein Hall, thrusting the University into the national spotlight amid growing concerns over …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2016
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
University People
Dunster Departures Dunster House faculty deans Roger B. Porter , IBM professor of business and government, and Ann Porter announced in early March that they would step down at the end of this academic year, concluding 16 years of service. They took the …
Issue: May-June 2017
Harvard Law Offers Pre-matriculation Material Free Nationwide
Amid wide concern driven by the COVID-19 pandemic (Is it safe to attend?) and recession (Can I afford it?), with many colleges and universities expecting enrollment to plummet this fall, Harvard Law School (HLS) has decided to offer Zero-L—its online, …
Chapter & Verse
Stuart Kirsch seeks a source “for what many commentators, including Alan Dershowitz in The Vanishing American Jew, refer to as a ‘quip’ or ‘anecdote’: ‘A Jew is defined as someone who has (or will have) Jewish grandchildren.’” Stephen Josephs asks who …
Issue: July-August 2015
Does High Blood Sugar Blunt the Benefits of Exercise?
Why do some people benefit more from exercise than others? The scientific literature on the subject points to people who seem to naturally exhibit what researchers call a “low response to training,” which means that these individuals can’t reap the full …
Issue: September-October 2022
New Members of Harvard Board of Overseers and Elected Directors of HAA
The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced by the University on May 25, the morning of Commencement Day. Board of Overseers (for six-year terms): Sylvia Mathews …
Optimizing Public-School Spending
Anyone who follows elections in her local community is familiar with the passionate debate about public-school spending. How much funding do the schools need? What is the most effective use of those funds? Studies conducted from 2015 on have found that …
Issue: November-December 2021
AWOL from Academics
I recently started using an application that tracks my work, producing weekly summaries of time spent on each activity, such as homework, socializing, or eating a meal. I was surprised to find I spend far, far less time on my classes than on my …
Issue: March-April 2024
Asteroid-Naming in the New Millennium
Acting out of "a sense of public duty," Ashok Nimgade '80, M.P.H. '98, M.D., of Boston, has forwarded for publication a copy of a letter he knows to have been sent by David Anthony Garcia '81 to Brian G. Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for …
Matthew Potts Appointed Harvard Pusey Minister
M atthew Ichihashi Potts, professor of religious studies and literature, has been appointed Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer professor of Christian morals, effective July 1. He succeeds interim minister Stephanie Paulsell , following …
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Yesterdays News Harvard Portrait Interim Agendas An Allston Metamorphosis? Adios, Early Admissions Money-Management Makeover Controversial Visitor Bigger Biology Brevia Sciences and Gender The Undergraduate Sports Alumni The College Pump Journal Opener …
Issue: November-December 2006
Harvard Overhauls Disciplinary Procedures
Harvard announced this morning that it was overhauling disciplinary procedures involving violations of the University-wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities—suggesting a recognition that the ways in which discipline was administered by each …
How Not to Write about Minorities
When Viet Thanh Nguyen , RF ’09, was 11, he spent his weekends in San Jose on his family’s red velour couch watching war movies. One day, he turned on Apocalypse Now —perhaps an odd choice for a child who fled Vietnam as a four-year-old during the war. …