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A Fragile History
“There it is ,” says Catherine Zipf ’94, striding down a narrow residential street in Providence, Rhode Island, and pointing toward a house near the top of the hill. Built in the early 1800s, it’s big and boxy, with blue clapboard walls, a bright red …
Issue: September-October 2025
NFL Referee Ron Torbert Makes the Tough Calls
“It’s hard for me to watch a football game as a fan,” says Ron Torbert, J.D. ’88, a veteran National Football League (NFL) referee who was crew chief at the 2022 Super Bowl. “TV doesn’t show the game the way I like to watch it. TV follows the ball. As an …
Issue: November-December 2022
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 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
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 …
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
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
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 …
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 …
Behind the Scenes: Writing what only I can write
THERE’S A QUOTE MY FORMER WRITING PROFESSOR LOVES, from Isaac Bashevis Singer: “I only write what only I can write.” I keep that quote on a sticky note near my desk. Of course, as a journalist, I don’t always get to choose exactly which topics I write …
“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 …
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Building—and Buying—a Campus
"Is Harvard Running Out of Space?” ran a headline in this magazine in the spring of 1989. The answer, the accompanying article explained, was a resounding “Yes.” The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) was first to go public with its dilemma, which had …
Issue: September-October 2011
Football: Harvard 42, Princeton 7
With three minutes left to play in the first half last Saturday on a cool, dingy day at Harvard Stadium, Crimson fans were experiencing an unaccustomed emotion: anxiety. For the first time in the 2015 season, Harvard was in a battle, tied 7-7 with …