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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 …
The Childcare Crisis
Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, J.D. ’09, and Sarah Siegel Muncey, Ed.M. ’05, met through a mutual friend when they were both pregnant. “Our babies were born within just a couple days of each other,” Kennedy says, “and like so many working moms, we thought, …
Slightly Supernatural
It wasn’t until after she moved into the haunted house that Laura van den Berg’s latest novel really started coming together. The Third Hotel follows Clare, a young widow who takes a trip to Havana in the wake of her husband’s sudden death and then begins …
Issue: September-October 2018
David Miliband Delivers Kennedy School Commencement Address
David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), addressed the Kennedy School’s graduating class of 2015 and their families in Cambridge’s John F. Kennedy Memorial Park on Wednesday afternoon. In a sobering speech, Miliband …
“Crossing Boundaries”
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS), will become the twenty-eighth president of Harvard University on July 1. She was elected by the Corporation, Harvard’s senior governing board, with the …
Allston Options
During the pandemic recession, it has been amazing to read regular Boston Globe reports about eight- and nine-figure venture-capital investments in biomedical start-ups, and oversubscribed initial public offerings for medical and biotech enterprises. …
Issue: September-October 2020
Harvard’s 2017 Honorary-Degree Recipients, from A to Z
DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 366th Commencement, on May 25, Harvard planned to confer honorary degrees on six men and four women. Among them are: a physician and human-rights activist who has sheltered tens of thousands of refugees in war-torn …
Rethinking the Medical Curriculum
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is reforming its four-year curriculum structurally, pedagogically, and philosophically. The new curriculum, which builds on the New Pathway curricular reform of 1987 and an iterative update in 2006 called the New Integrated …
Issue: September-October 2015
Dolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal
Dolores Huerta , the labor and civil-rights activist who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association (now the United Farm Workers), will receive the Radcliffe Medal and speak to guests at Radcliffe Day on May 31, during Commencement week. Huerta is …
Thai Tastes in Watertown
New England winters seem made for Thai basil. Fiercer than its Italian cousin, this purple-stemmed variety has a slight anise flavor and spicy kick that warms the entire body. It stars in the wide-noodle kee mao and saucy eggplant stir-fry at Watertown’s …
Issue: January-February 2021
Challenges on the Field and Off
Beset by an ugly string of off-season incidents, the football team sought to make amends on the playing field. After pounding Holy Cross, 31-14, in a sun-soaked home opener, the team downed Brown, 38-21, and came from behind to edge Lehigh, 35-33. The …
Issue: November-December 2006
A Faculty’s Vision
On July 28, Harvard’s neighbor published the final report of the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education, and obligingly made it available for interested parties ( web.mit.edu/future-report/TaskForceFinal_July28.pdf ). Even in mid summer, …
Issue: November-December 2014
True Crime
Before Netflix-watchers debated whether Carole Baskin fed her husband to tigers in the docuseries Tiger King, before Serial podcast sleuths investigated the murder of Hae Min Lee, and before the televised O.J. Simpson murder trial forever changed the way …
Issue: January-February 2022
Permafrost Fare
Community cookbooks are not known for remarkable scope and ambition. As delicious as a favorite pasta salad might be, it tastes about the same whether made in Arkansas, Nevada, or Maine, jokes Marylène Altieri, Schlesinger Library curator of books and …
Issue: September-October 2022
The Long Game
Brian Ma ’23 [’24], who this year recorded the lowest scoring average of any Ivy League golfer—and the best in Harvard’s history—is quick to emphasize that he was never a prodigy. Unlike Tiger Woods, who was coached extensively by his father from the age …
Issue: July-August 2022