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Emerging Maine Artists
Maine-based art can sometimes exhibit tired tropes: lobster buoys piled on a wharf; sailboats dotting a sunny harbor; pine trees and craggy rocks along the ocean. There’s none of that, though, in As We Are. This show of works by 14 emerging Maine artists …
Issue: March-April 2025
Returning to Celebrate, and Eat
Though Commencement Week has been postponed, there will come a time when alumni can once again gather on campus for past-due celebrations. It’s nice, then, that Boston and Cambridge are home to many restaurants that make great places to gather and eat—all …
Issue: May-June 2020
Harvard Single-Gender Social-Club Rules Rescinded
The University announced Monday that in light of seemingly insuperable legal challenges, it is rescinding its policy on unregulated single-gender social organizations (USGSOs: the undergraduate final clubs, fraternities, and sororities) . The policy was …
A Year of “Good Progress”
Assessing the academic year now drawing to a close, William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, said today in one of his periodic briefings on the governing boards’ work, “One of the most critical things this year was the first year of our …
Size, Strength, and Maturity: Josue Ortiz Draws Kudos
Defensive tackle Josue Ortiz ’11, recently profiled in Harvard Magazine, was the subject of a preseason football article in the Boston Globe . In the piece, head Harvard football coach Tim Murphy noted both teammates’ inability to block Ortiz in …
Two Harvard Students Awarded Marshall Scholarships
The 2016 class of Marshall Scholars includes seniors Bianca Mulaney and Rebecca Panovka. Mulaney will study at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); her research interests include assessment of the economic impact of antimicrobial …
Lightning Strikes Twice
Last Monday, a Harvard faculty member and an alumnus shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with a third scholar. Today, another Harvard faculty member and another alumnus did the same: Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer …
Namwali Serpell
Namwali Serpell is professor of English and an award-winning novelist, essayist, and critic. Although born in Zambia, her economist mother’s home country, her earliest memory, at age two, is of seeing horses for the first time on a misty day in her …
Issue: July-August 2021
Job Notices
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 Office of Career Services connects students …
Issue: November-December 2009
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Hating Harvard Congratulations to the editors for featuring “ Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard ” (March-April, page 26), and congratulations to Derek Bok for his contribution to a much-needed public discussion. His thoughts are well balanced and are …
Issue: May-June 2024
Earl Brown
On December 22, 2020, Earl Brown ’24 became Harvard’s latest major-league baseball player. That would be Earl Brown, class of 1924 , a star pitcher who went on to pitch for the New York Lincoln Giants of the Eastern Colored League. In December 2020, Major …
Issue: March-April 2022
Catching Some Rays: Good for Your Heart?
CBS News has the story on a new study, led by Harvard School of Public Health professor Edward Giovannucci, that found that men with low Vitamin D levels had more than double the risk of heart attack, compared to other subjects in the study. Vitamin D is …
Dunster Deconstruction
Having practiced the art and craft of House renewal on parts of Quincy and Leverett houses, the College is now renovating an entire undergraduate residence . As soon as students decamped, the scaffolding went up, construction workers began stripping the …
Issue: September-October 2014
Melissa Dell
Economics professor Melissa Dell has studied everything from colonialism’s impact on development in Indonesia to global trade and worker displacement in Mexico. A development economist, she studies countries her discipline once ignored: “In the 1960s, …
Issue: July-August 2020
An Acrobat Takes Flight
Sometimes it truly feels like flying . That’s how acrobat Anna Soltys Morse, A.L.M. ’18, describes a good day at work. “When things are really well-timed between two people, there’s this moment where you’re like, ‘Oh, that was perfect,’” she says. “You …
Issue: May-June 2022