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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 …
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
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
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 …
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
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 …
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
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
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
“We Only Have One Planet”
Former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, M.P.A. ’84, had harsh words for the world’s leaders during an address to Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) graduates on Wednesday afternoon’s Class Day ceremony. Speaking nearly four decades after his own …
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 …
“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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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
Beyond the SAT
Nicholas Lemann ’76, dean of the Columbia Journalism School from 2003 to 2013 ( “The Press Professor,” September-October 2005, page 78), has, among other works, written the definitive history of standardized testing, T he Big Test: The Secret History of …
Issue: September-October 2024