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The Buddies in the Boat
For almost 50 years , this has been Garrett Olmsted’s recurring dream: “I’m back at Harvard,” said the former Crimson lightweight oarsman, “and I go down to the boathouse. And at first they don’t notice that I’m 30 or 40 or however old I am.” Olmsted ’68, …
University People
Freshman Dean Graduates Thomas A. Dingman Photograph by Kris Snibbe/HPAC Six months after celebrating his fiftieth College reunion ( Commencement Confetti , July-August 2017, page 19), dean of freshmen Thomas A. Dingman said he will step down next June. …
Issue: January-February 2018
Rallying Cries
A s the United States struggles with unauthorized immigration, and the administration of President Donald J. Trump sharply constricts legal means of entry, such as appeals for asylum, political counter-forces have been mobilizing. In New York City, the …
Issue: March-April 2020
Centered on Community
With natural disaster (Hurricane Harvey) and cultural confrontation (in Charlottesville and elsewhere) occupying the national conversation, Harvard leaders chose to focus on this community’s purposes and values as they welcomed the College class of 2021 …
Sophia Nguyen , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Issue: November-December 2017
Rapid Tests, in Time for Fall Surge
Last week, the first rapid, inexpensive, coronavirus tests were finally approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration. These self-administered tests, which don’t require a physician’s prescription, can be used by anyone to determine whether …
A “Magic Bus” for City Kids
The magic bus campus , designed by professor of urban design and planning Rahul Mehrotra, aims to ease cultural divides starting with India’s youngest citizens. The name of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) refers to the bus that brings children from …
Issue: May-June 2012
Academic Freedom—for All
More than 100 Harvard faculty members have signed an open letter criticizing President Claudine Gay’s condemnation of the pro-Palestinian phrase “from the river to the sea” and what they identified as an eroding commitment to freedom of expression on …
From “New College Theatre” to Farkas Hall
The New College Theatre , created from 2005 to 2007 by new construction behind, and a renovation of, the façade of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals venue, finally has a name. The University announced today that Andrew L. Farkas ’82 had endowed the complex in …
Discourse and Discipline
An initiative to promote effective discourse and a separate proposal to broaden approaches to student discipline were advanced at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on December 5. Although not signaled in advance, it was hardly surprising, in …
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 …
Faculty Meeting Summary
In a remarkable meeting held on the Ides of March in the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) twice voted to register its lack of confidence in and concerns over the presidency of Lawrence H. Summers. The meeting followed highly …
Brevia
Scientific Ventures Albert J. Weatherhead Celia J. Weatherhead Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Flexible funding for innovative research in basic and applied sciences throughout the University is the goal of a …
Issue: March-April 2005
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 …
Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
For “persistent reporting that created a model for transparent journalism in political campaign coverage,” The Washington Post’ s David Fahrenthold ’00 has been honored with a Pulitzer Prize in national reporting. Colson Whitehead ’91 was honored with …
Standing Out, United
Briana Acosta, M.P.H. ’23, is used to sticking out. As “one of a handful” of low-income students on financial aid at her private high school in Houston and one of its only students of color, Acosta said she struggled with “really feeling out of place”—a …