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Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
This spring, alumni can vote for five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by April 1, must be received back in Cambridge by noon on May 22 to be counted. Election results will be …
Issue: March-April 2015
A Tribute to Melvin Miller
Hundreds crowded the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on the evening of June 22, donning their finest attire and nametags that read “A friend of Mel,” to pay homage to Melvin B. Miller ’56 , who founded The Bay State Banner in 1965. …
The Classes
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Issue: January-February 2015
HAA Awards 2014
Established in 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards recognize outstanding service to the University. This year’s awards are scheduled to be presented on September 18 during the HAA board of directors’ fall meeting. Robert R. Bowie Jr. ’73 …
Issue: September-October 2014
New, Harvard-wide Sexual Assault Policy Released
Harvard today announced the creation of a new University-wide policy and procedures covering sexual harassment, unwelcome conduct, and gender-based harassment. The changes, overseen by Mia Karvonides, Title IX Officer and director of the Office of Dispute …
Living Collections
I am more of a runner than a rambler— measuring my time outdoors in miles rather than moments—but life in pandemic mode has forced me to slow down and look for opportunities to exit my COVID cocoon and engage with the world. The best walk I have taken …
Issue: March-April 2022
Summers to Step Down
UPDATE: See the University news release announcing President Lawrence H. Summers's resignation on Tuesday. The following are developments since the confrontational Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting following the announcement of the forthcoming …
Greetings from Elmwood
This is the first of my letters written from home. Right now, Adele and I are suffering through what we hope will be the worst of our COVID-19 symptoms—something that feels a lot like the flu, not fun but also not life threatening. We feel fortunate. Many …
Issue: May-June 2020
Yesterday's News
1915 Undergraduate protests against beer at class banquets prompt Bulletin editors to note that "the increase of abstinence and temperance throughout American society has become almost a commonplace observation." Illustration by Mark Steele 1920 A …
Issue: January-February 2005
Harvard College Unveils Dunster Renovation Plans
The College today released design details for the forthcoming renovation of Dunster House, scheduled to begin right after Commencement and to conclude before classes resume in the fall of 2015. Dunster is the first undergraduate residence to undergo …
Neil Patrick Harris Is Man of the Year
Whether portraying a lovable child doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D. , commanding center-stage with brilliant song and dance as host of the Tony Awards, or getting laughs as the womanizing Barney Stinson on the hit CBS television series, How I Met Your Mother …
General Education under the Microscope
General education —the flagship program in the College’s curriculum, consisting of courses from eight categories designed to assure that undergraduates acquire some breadth of intellectual exposure, as well as some grounding in ethical reasoning and the …
Performing for the President
On Thursday evening an “Arts Prelude” to President Claudine Gay’s official installation shook Sanders Theatre with a whirlwind of energetic, and sometimes stirringly intimate, performances—from ballet to Haitian compas ( a méringue dance music) to lyric …
Alumnus Moungi Bawendi Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov. The trio were honored for “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” crystals so small that they are …
Radcliffe Announces Knafel Center and Fund
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study today announced that the Radcliffe Gymnasium has been renamed the Knafel Center in honor of venture capitalist Sidney R. Knafel ’52, M.B.A. ’54, whose most recent gift—the $10.5-million Knafel Fund—will support …