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The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 Shared Interest Groups; a full list appears at http://post.harvard.edu/harvard/ clubs/html/SIGdir.shtml . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this …
Issue: September-October 2009
Crimson Clear
During the past three-plus decades, Harvard has invested immensely in Allston: to acquire properties, devise land-use plans, secure regulatory permission to develop parcels, arrange commercial use of leased acreage, build the engineering and applied …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel
David Baker ’84, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington, has been named a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating entirely new proteins. In 2003, using a software platform he had invented called Rosetta, Baker designed a …
Caroline Buckee: Can Mobile-phone Data Help Control the Spread of the Coronavirus?
Can cellphone technologies play a role in controlling the coronavirus pandemic? Knowing how public health policies interact with people’s actual behavior, even at an anonymous population-level view, can help guide the decisions of leaders. Mobile …
Frenk Appointed Dean of School of Public Health
President Drew Faust announced on July 29 the appointment of Julio Frenk as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), effective in January 2009. Frenk was Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. He succeeds Barry R. Bloom, whose service …
Dunster House First to Be Fully Renovated
Harvard announced today that Dunster will become the first of its 12 undergraduate Houses to be fully renewed under an ambitious, multidecade program in which the River House renovations alone are expected to cost more than $1 billion . Faculty of Arts …
Harvard and the Cult of Robert E. Lee
The new year has arrived, which means the Sons of Confederate Veterans will soon march down Main Street here in Lexington, Virginia, to celebrate the January birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Two days later, a much larger Lexington crowd …
Pamelyn Bennett
When Pamelyn Bennett began working at the National Airport Marriott Hotel, in Washington, D.C., she checked in a foreign family whom she remembers as “very brusque—they just wanted their room.” When Bennett, now an event operations coordinator at Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2024
How Does Hate Spread?
In the months following Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s military response in Gaza, American Jews and Muslims have endured a rise in hatred. In the two months after October 7, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported a 337 percent increase …
Raj Chetty Will Return to Harvard
Raj Chetty , professor of economics at Stanford and one of the world’s foremost researchers on economic mobility and inequality, will return to Harvard this fall. Chetty was a professor of economics at Harvard from 2009 through 2015, and his departure was …
Reflections of Pandemic Intimacy
Katherine Bradford’s color-saturated works often feature bold, fluid forms: swimmers and superheroes, or human bodies lodged within an amorphous frame of time and space. One recent painting, Mother’s Lap, offers softened geometric figures; one is …
Issue: September-October 2021
Landmark Bio Breaks Ground
Construction began today on a state-of-the-art biomanufacturing facility in a 40,000-square-foot leased space at the Watertown Arsenal, a few miles west of Harvard Square, culminating a several-year process of developing a Boston-area research …
A Mouse, and Other Surprises
“In this perilous, suffering world and in this deeply troubled nation,” as John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, characterized them, perhaps just what is wanted in a Commencement speaker is an actor to read a children’s story about a mouse named Mahalia. Lithgow …
Issue: July-August 2005
The Renovated Harvard Coop
T he Harvard Coop finished its latest renovation project and celebrated its grand reopening on September 20. A few days later, in a Boston Globe op-ed, Joan Wickersham declared that “the renovated Coop is an embarrassment and a travesty,” because it …
Claudia Jones
Next to the enormous bust of Karl Marx in London’s Highgate Cemetery lies a small stone marking the ashes of a remarkable woman: Claudia Jones. Born in Trinidad, she immigrated as a child to New York City, where she lived until she was deported to Britain …
Issue: September-October 2020