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Sarah Whiting Named Dean of Graduate School of Design
Sarah Whiting, dean of the Rice University School of Architecture, has been named dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), effective July 1, 2019. She succeeds Mohsen Mostafavi, who has served as dean for the past 11 years, and will be the …
Africa in Clay
Clay artworks are as varied as the populations of the world: “There are dozens of different typologies of clay,” says Clowes professor of fine arts Suzanne Blier , corresponding to different colors and textures found throughout the earth’s river banks. …
Issue: May-June 2019
Yesterday's News
1920 The Graduate School of Education registers its first female students, making them the first women ever admitted to candidacy for a Harvard degree. 1925 The College establishes a board of faculty advisers to counsel freshmen. 1930 Six hundred …
Issue: September-October 2005
Cast Your Ballot
This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots should arrive in the mail by April 15 and must be received back in Cambridge by noon on June 3 to be counted. …
Issue: March-April 2005
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
Friday evening, January 27 , was quiet, with the College dispersed for intercession. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby was returning from fundraising meetings in New York. President Lawrence H. Summers was at the World Economic …
Harvard Unveils Plans for Science and Engineering Center
University officials have now released designs for the long-anticipated Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) complex in Allston—a 586,000 square-foot, six-story building expected to be completed in 2020. The …
A Democracy of Opportunity
Franklin D. Roosevelt, A.B. 1904, LL.D. ’29, opened his 1936 campaign for a second term as president by pressing to rebuild the United States as “a democracy of opportunity.” At the Democratic National Convention, FDR decried the way the nation’s …
Issue: January-February 2022
A True Believer
But first, a word about the Florida scrub jay. “Before the invention of the air conditioner, Florida was a spectacular wilderness,” notes John Fitzpatrick ’74, director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (CLO). “By the mid twentieth century, the …
Issue: March-April 2007
The Twenty-First-Century Student
In 1986, incoming freshmen did not receive Harvard e-mail addresses. The computer-science concentration was just five years old. Less than 9 percent of students reported significant work, study, or extended travel abroad before they graduated. (Today, …
Issue: September-October 2011
The (New) Calendar Canon
The process has been served. It took a 40-page report, delivered on March 22, but the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, by an 18-1 vote, has found a way to coordinate all the schools' diverse academic schedules—almost. (The text is …
Issue: May-June 2004
Harvard Alumnus Wins Chemistry Nobel
David Baker ’84, a biochemistry professor at the University of Washington, has been named a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating entirely new proteins. In 2003, using a software platform he had invented called Rosetta, Baker designed a …
A Bouquet for Nature-Lovers
The Rarest of the Rare: Stories behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HarperResource, $22.95) is a delightful armchair tour through the packed museum with an agreeable guide, staff writer Nancy Pick, who points out scores of …
Issue: November-December 2004
Grade Deflation
Jawboning works. That's the import of a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from Benedict H. Gross, dean of undergraduate education. He reports that even before FAS-enacted changes in College grading and the awarding of academic honors take …
Issue: May-June 2003
“Nothing Has to Stay the Way It Is”
Before she launched into the main part of her Commencement address—about the present, the future, and the frightening world that the class of 2019 now inherits—German chancellor Angela Merkel recalled her life in East Germany under Soviet rule. Speaking …
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Pamelyn Bennett
When Pamelyn Bennett began working at the National Airport Marriott Hotel, in Washington, D.C., she checked in a foreign family whom she remembers as “very brusque—they just wanted their room.” When Bennett, now an event operations coordinator at Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2024