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Katherine O’Dair to Replace Stephen Lassonde as Dean of Students
Katherine O’Dair , a former administrator at Boston College and MIT, has been named dean of students effective August 15, College dean Rakesh Khurana announced in an email today. She will succeed former dean of student life Stephen Lassonde, who stepped …
The Justice Gap
Almost a century ago , a young Boston lawyer named Reginald Heber Smith published a landmark book called Justice and the Poor . It was about how people struggling economically were faring in the American legal system and why American lawyers needed to …
Issue: November-December 2017
Babar Comes to Houghton Library
Published in 1935 , ABC de Babar— the focus of a current exhibit at Harvard—was the fourth book in French illustrator Jean de Brunhoff’s series about a little elephant in a green three-piece suit. The children’s books (the first appeared in 1931) had …
Finding Other Streets
Mark Erickson ’94 has lived only one life, thus far, but he’s considered another one—photographically. It’s the life on display in Other Streets , a 2019 collection of photos he took while studying in Vietnam as a Harvard student. Born Đỗ Văn Hùng in …
Issue: November-December 2020
"The Monet of the Mountaintop"
Peter C. Liman, M.A.T. ’63, spent his business career as a marketing executive in toiletries and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals—first with Clairol, then Old Spice, Brut (when he hung out with athlete endorsers Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath), Aqua Velva, …
Issue: March-April 2007
N. Gregory Mankiw
Photograph by Stu Rosner N. Gregory Mankiw After two years as chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), Beren professor of economics Gregory Mankiw returned to Harvard in 2005 and took over the introductory economics course from the man who had …
Issue: March-April 2007
Immigrant Stories, in Song
Tonight, a digital Broadway concert offers the first glimpse of what will become Lives in Limbo , the musical. The source material is unusual: a densely detailed ethnographic study by Harvard sociologist Roberto Gonzales , who spent 12 years …
Thomas Lentz to Leave Harvard Art Museums
Thomas W. Lentz , Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums, today announced that he would step down at the end of the academic year—a surprising and apparently unexpected development that comes less than three months after the November 16 gala reopening …
“Our Vote Counts”
This past Friday evening , an alliance of 27 campus affinity organizations came together online for “Interconnections and Elections: A Cross-Cultural Voting Kickoff”—a two-hour event to boost voting engagement and civic participation among people of …
Harvard Corporation to Drop Law School Shield Linked to Slavery
The Harvard Corporation has agreed to abandon the controversial Harvard Law School (HLS) shield, per the recommendation of a committee of HLS faculty, students, and alumni released early this month. “[T]he Corporation agrees with your judgment and the …
Harvard’s G.O.A.T.
Late in the second quarter on a sunny, seasonably warm Saturday 110 Novembers ago, the 50,000 spectators crammed into Harvard Stadium trained their gaze on a solidly built, crimson-clad player massaging a football near midfield. In the thirty-fourth …
Issue: November-December 2023
Professorial Permutations
During the past quarter-century , Harvard’s faculty has become more diverse and has refocused its intellectual energies. The University’s professoriate includes more women and minorities, and is larger, more international, and stronger in science, …
Issue: September-October 2011
Conservative Curation
Amid the triumphant fanfare of the Harvard Tercentenary celebrations, Radcliffe College’s 1936 exhibit on “Women in Science” was remarkably unassuming. The exhibit marked the first Harvard centenary to celebrate women in university life. Tucked into a …
Issue: January-February 2021
A Modest Proposal
Harvard is so decentralized that members of the community may not know what they are all accomplishing individually—or might, together. The University, for instance, maintains that “Broad efforts to raise funds for energy and environment research across …
Issue: January-February 2016
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is lifted as if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat no fear with her. Would she plane, or plow? Give a good ass-bumping if we'd go out today? Someone left his dream-sized hull to salt's pimples, …
Issue: September-October 2004