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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
“Disasters Sift out the Resilient”
In his last Commencement address as dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Nitin Nohria, who steps down later this year after 10-plus years at the helm , urged graduates to remember their gratitude, even during the profound disruptions and …
Theda Skocpol address to PBK
Working Together to Meet the Public Challenges of This Time Theda Skocpol Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Phi Beta Kappa Exercises, Harvard University May 24, 2022 Thank you to the Alpha-Iota Chapter of Phi Beta …
Are Graduate Students Employees?
Harvard faculty and staff members have access to child-care subsidies worth thousands of dollars per year, while graduate-student parents get none. Harvard’s employees enjoy dental care generously subsidized by the University, but grad students must pay …
Teaching and Learning Abroad
Mollie wright ’09 expected to spend her summer in Costa Rica teaching English. She was, after all, a volunteer for WorldTeach, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization affiliated with the Harvard Center for International Development that places volunteer …
Issue: January-February 2008
“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 …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , Lydialyle Gibson
News Briefs
Police—and Student—Conduct The committee appointed by President Drew Faust last spring to review the April 13 off-campus arrest of a black undergraduate by Cambridge police—video evidence showed the physical force used to restrain him—completed its report …
Issue: January-February 2019
Alumni Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs [Shared Interest Groups] Committee Awards honor individuals who provide exemplary service to a Harvard club or Shared Interest Group (SIG), and recognize those clubs and SIGs that have organized exceptional programming. Awards were …
Issue: March-April 2013
The Week’s Words
“The Rule of Truth” In a year of harsh attacks on higher education, and worrisome erosions of academic freedom, Drew Gilpin Faust, president emerita, focused her May 21 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) oration on the values and worth of universities, and the threats …
Issue: July-August 2024
Miller of "The Bay State Banner"
“Well, let me just tell you that I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” Melvin B. Miller ’56 told this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was never too reluctant to …
Issue: March-April 2022
Remembering Henry Cobb, Architect of CGIS
Editor’s note: Henry Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49, a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the Graduate School of Design, whose work includes Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) complex, died on March 2. …
The New England Folk Festival
Why not launch your day with a rousing ukulele workshop? Then waltz over to sessions on English hand-bell ringing and South African choral music before hitting a Balkan dance party. This year’s New England Folk Festival (April 24-26 at Acton-Boxborough …
Issue: March-April 2020
21,000 Hours
Harvard College began holding a Freshman Convocation ceremony in 2009—a formal public greeting of new freshmen by the president and deans, and the only occasion when the students gather as a class before graduation. This year’s Convocation took place on …
Time to Electrify
The recent spike in oil prices , to more than $100 per barrel—and the resulting, predictable outcry over the return of the $4 gallon of gas—have prompted hurried responses from policymakers in Washington, eager to do something about constituents’ economic …
Issue: July-August 2011
From the Soil Up
This year marks one hundred years since Beatrix Farrand designed the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard’s 16-acre research institution in Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and garden and landscape studies tucked in the northern …