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Honoring Our Contributors
We take great pleasure in saluting four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2016, and happily confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Jane Kamensky Jane Kamensky joins scholarly prowess—professor of history and …
Issue: January-February 2017
Five Questions with Ashton Keen
Potter Ashton Keen is an artist-in-residence at Harvard’s ceramics program during this school year, and she spoke about her artistic evolution and learning to work with clay in “ A Potter’s Practice .” Harvard Magazine asked Keen, who recently earned her …
Professor Holdren to Be Nominated as White House Science Adviser
John P. Holdren, Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to be nominated as the White House science adviser by President-elect Barack Obama, according to several news reports. Holdren's website (which lists his current …
Advancing Art
As a university task force readied its vision for curricular and facilities investments in the creative and performing arts (see our arts task force update , published after this issue went to press), Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. ’63, gave the Harvard Art …
Issue: January-February 2009
Pins for Women
Tiny pins with their delicate metal fasteners still intact, some more than 100 years old, read “Votes for Women” and “I March for Full Suffrage” in faded letters. Some sit in miniature carrying cases, signifying, perhaps, that they once meant a great deal …
Issue: November-December 2016
Brevia
Significant Works Significant works from three collections—Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger— come together for the first time in the Harvard Art Museum exhibit Re-View, at the Sackler. Although prompted by construction and renovation at the Fogg’s 32 …
Issue: November-December 2008
University Names Goldman Sachs Executive to New VP Post
The University this morning announced the creation of a new position, executive vice president, and the name of the person appointed to the job: Edward C. Forst ’82, currently global head of the investment management division for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and …
Business for the Other Billions
Since late last autumn , Mira Mehta and Shane Kiernan have lived in converted chicken coops on a farm in Nigeria’s Nasarawa State—a two-hour drive, when roads are passable, northeast of Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous country. On December 23, …
Issue: September-October 2015
No One Deserves a Spot at Harvard
The British sociologist Michael Young coined “meritocracy” in 1958 in the title of a satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy , which purported to look backward from 2034 at a dystopian United Kingdom on the brink of revolution. Young feared the new …
Issue: September-October 2020
Wage Wrangling
The sit-in capped a two-year-old campaign organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and aimed at securing a standard minimum wage for University workers of $10 per hour (later $10.25), corresponding to a figure adopted by the Cambridge …
Genomic Science and Society
Francis Collins, the home-schooled director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, visited Harvard Medical School on February 20, one week after publication of the public and private drafts of the human genome in the competing journals Science …
Steven Spielberg Named Harvard’s 2016 Commencement Speaker
Academy Award-winning director , screenwriter, and producer Steven Spielberg will be the guest speaker at Harvard’s 365th Commencement on Thursday, May 26, the University announced today. Calling Spielberg “a genre-defying filmmaker whose unparalleled …
Artistic Harvard: The Inaugural Showcase
A Thursday evening “Musical Prelude to the Inauguration: A Welcome and Celebration,” crafted by the Office for the Arts and held in Sanders Theatre, became a showcase for the making, performing, and professing of multiple arts at the University, featuring …
Unsettled Conditions
The Tuesday of Commencement week, June 6, was radiant—perfect weather for the seniors to march from the Old Yard to Memorial Church, tipping their caps to the statue of John Harvard, for their Baccalaureate service, where Lawrence H. Summers, whose five …
Issue: July-August 2006
HIID Denouement
The federal lawsuit concerning the conduct of the Harvard Institute for International Development’s advisory work on the privatization of Russia’s economy has been expensively settled, without any admissions of institutional or personal liability, as …
Issue: March-April 2006