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Hiram Hunn Awards
Seven alumni received Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid on October 2 for their volunteer work: recruiting and interviewing prospective undergraduates. William L. (“Ike”) …
Issue: November-December 2015
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
Classifieds
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Al Fresco
Imagine this: someone other than yourself laboring to prepare fresh Italian food, and serving it with a real smile? The joys of dining out after months of pandemic isolation have never been so welcome: “How do you like your meal? What else may I get for …
Issue: May-June 2021
Private Equity and the Practice of Medicine
Is private equity monetizing medicine at patients’ expense? According to associate professor of health care policy and medicine Zirui Song and other Harvard researchers, patients in hospitals owned by private equity firms suffered significantly more …
Issue: May-June 2024
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
Harvard Reports on Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein Gifts
President Lawrence S. Bacow reported to the community this afternoon that the gifts to Harvard from Jeffrey Epstein were in line with those he disclosed last September : $9.1 million between 1998 and 2008, with no gifts received following Epstein’s …
College to Impose Sanctions on Final Club Members
Citing their history of gender discrimination and negative influence on campus life, University President Drew Faust announced in an e-mail today that Harvard will ban members of historically male final clubs and other unrecognized, single-gender social …
Springtime Antics at the Arnold Arboretum
For many visitors, springtime at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum means Lilac Sunday—a 112-year-old annual celebration on Mother’s Day in honor of the delightfully fragrant, eye-catching flowers. The 281-acre landscape, which holds more than 15,000 woody-plant …
Issue: May-June 2022
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 …
A Roadmap for Reforming Civic Education
Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey on civic knowledge found that barely half of American adults can name all three branches …
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
How Will Regulation Evolve Around AI and Data Protection?
Bruce Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times bestselling author of 14 books, including A …
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, …
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 …