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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, …
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
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 …
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
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
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 …
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
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
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, …
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
Curricular Commitments
Departing Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean William C. Kirby has attempted to set the clock ticking for completing a revision of the undergraduate curriculum, after three years of study. In a letter circulated January 20—one week before the …
Issue: March-April 2006
Five Questions with George Cooper ’25 on Student-Musicians
George Cooper ’25, a Mather House music concentrator originally from Los Angeles, is captain of the Harvard men’s baseball team, where he plays infielder/outfielder. To date, Cooper has played in 107 baseball games for the Crimson, batting .303 while …
Heather Henriksen
“This might be a little in the weeds , but trust me, it’s cool.” Heather Henriksen is warming up an impassioned (but definitely cool) oration about a University-wide push to get harmful chemicals—“flame retardants, antimicrobials, stain repellents, water …
Issue: January-February 2017
History-Making Astronaut
Stephanie Wilson ’88 lived out nearly every child’s fantasy when she soared aloft aboard NASA’s space shuttle Discovery in early July, making history as only the second African-American woman to venture into space. The Pittsfield, Massachusetts, native …
Issue: September-October 2006