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Emma Dench Named Harvard GSAS Dean
McLean professor of ancient and modern history and of the classics Emma Dench , who has served as interim dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) during the current academic year, will assume that post on a regular basis, effective July 1. …
Gabby Thomas ’19 Wins Olympic Trials, Heads to Tokyo
Former Harvard student-athlete Gabby Thomas ’19 made history on Saturday, becoming the second-fastest woman ever in the women’s 200 meters and clinching a spot at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Her time of 21.61 seconds was the best since 1988, when Florence …
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, …
Israel, Idea and State
Frankfurter professor of law Noah Feldman, a leading scholar of the Constitution, is also an experienced thinker about the Middle East (see “Near and Distant Objectives,” September-October 2020, page 35). His To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, …
Issue: May-June 2024
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
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
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 …
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Issue: November-December 2017
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 …
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 …
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 …
Saving Money, Oil, and the Climate
The United States is in urgent need of a comprehensive, rational, and—above all—honest policy to guide its energy future, a policy that addresses two key, interrelated objectives: reducing dependence on vulnerable sources of imported oil and reducing …
Issue: March-April 2008
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 …
Admissions Equity
Several years ago, a journalist at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow whispered a pitch for what he thought an explosive story: that Harvard gave admissions preference to “legacies”—children of alumni. I knew that, I replied. I had in mind M. Elaine Mar’s vivid …
Issue: November-December 2006
Challenges to Harvard’s President: An Update
The following are developments since the confrontational Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting following the announcement of the forthcoming resignation of Dean William C. Kirby. At that meeting, faculty members criticized President Lawrence H. …