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The Three Principles of Transformation
On May 22, presiding over her final Baccalaureate ceremony, President Drew Faust spoke to the graduating seniors of 2018 about transformation—both theirs, and her own. While recounting the transformations that had taken place at Harvard during the class’s …
Harvard Campaign Reaches $5 Billion
The University has announced that The Harvard Campaign had recorded $5 billion in gifts and pledges as of December 31: nearly 77 percent of the $6.5-billion goal announced in September 2013, when the public phase of fundraising began with $2.8 billion of …
College Announces New Public-Service Leadership
Continuing an effort to enhance the role of public service in students’ lives, Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana today announced that Warren professor of the history of American education Julie Reuben has been appointed the inaugural faculty director of …
The Harvard Corporation, Reformed
Robert D. Reischauer, Senior Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, and President Drew Faust today provided a brief briefing on that governing board’s operations and activities—one of the periodic updates to the community begun when significant reforms of …
Harvard Reiterates Campus Rules
In another indication that University officials are anticipating campus tension and protest this fall and hoping to avoid a repeat of last spring’s pro-Palestine encampment in the Yard, executive vice president Meredith Weenick emailed a message to the …
Alumni Interviewers Honored
This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective …
Issue: September-October 2022
John Lewis Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
Congressman John Lewis, LL.D. ’12 —a towering figure in the U.S. civil-rights movement who has represented Georgia’s Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1986—will be the principal speaker at Harvard’s 367th Commencement, on May 24, …
Vermont Folk Songs, Plugged In
The Green Mountain State does not leap to mind when the subject of indigenous American music comes up. Yet Vermont has bred American folk music, and your name in secret I would write ( http://yournameinsecretiwouldwrite.blogspot.com ) , a recent CD …
Issue: May-June 2012
Seven Harvardians Win MacArthur "Genius" Awards in 2018
Seven Harvard alumni have been named fellows by the MacArthur Foundation this year. The fellowship, commonly referred to as the “genius” award, recognizes recipients for their “ innovation and creativity and their potential to make important contributions …
Harvard Corporation Elects Kenneth I. Chenault and Karen Gordon Mills
The University announced today that Kenneth I. Chenault, J.D. ’76, and Karen Gordon Mills ’75, M.B.A. ’77, have been elected members of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, effective July 1. They succeed retiring members Robert D. …
Yesterday’s News
1924 In a likely first for Harvard, mother and son Martha Brown Fincke, M.Ed. ’24, and C. Louis Fincke ’24 receive degrees at the same Commencement. 1939 Modern pedagogy is well rep resented in the Summer School: J.R. Brewster ’25, of the Harvard Film …
Issue: July-August 2019
Personal Excerpts: Alumni Write about Alzheimer’s
Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry (Paul Dry Books, 2011) by Rachel Hadas ’69 Rutgers University English professor Rachel Hadas recounts the medical interview during which her husband of more than 25 years, George Edwards, cannot …
Issue: September-October 2013
“This Is a Gift”
“We wanted to make something.” Two months ago, as Sharmila Sen and her colleagues at Harvard University Press (HUP), all working from home, followed the news of demonstrations spreading around the country—and around the globe—to protest racism and police …
Harvard Professor Carla Martin on the Cocoa Crisis
Why have chocolate prices surged since before Valentine's Day, hitting an all time high around Easter? Some analysts have predicted that cocoa may reach highs of $10,000 a ton in this historic period of inflation, growing in value at a rate faster than …
Kevin Beasley at the ICA/Boston
Artist Kevin Beasley’s sculptures resonate with what’s not there. He typically uses found objects, from Air Jordans and T-shirts to feathers and amplifiers, and molds them into eerily inhabited shapes or spaces using resin or polyurethane foam. “His work …
Issue: July-August 2018