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Issue: July-August 2015
Design Engineering Debuts
How can aging and elderly populations be accommodated in today’s cities? What must coastal areas do to adapt to rising sea levels? Could the petroleum-based transportation system be shifted to natural-gas fueling—and how? The faculties of Harvard’s …
The Classes
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Issue: May-June 2015
“For Exceptional Service…”
Six alumni were recognized with HAA Awards (during the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors’ fall meeting), for their outstanding service to the University. Danguole Spakevicius Altman ’81 of Houston, a member of her class’s thirty-fifth-reunion …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Classes
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Issue: March-April 2015
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
Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works
In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse with theater built in 1888, is the so-called Elephant Room, a narrow, bare-bulb, basement cell made glorious by its inhabitants--the costumes of Harvard men in drag from years …
Issue: March-April 2002
The Classes
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Issue: January-February 2015
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 …
Buy America
Buy America John D. Spooner ’59, author of Do You Want to Make Money or Would You Rather Fool Around? (Adams Media Corporation, $19.95), gets a lesson from an old hand. One crisis I was witness to—which reinforces the importance of knowing …
Issue: March-April 2000
Rebuilding or Reloading?
It was either sheer inertia or a heartfelt tribute to Tim Murphy that made the voters in the Ivy League’s preseason football poll place two-time defending champion Harvard on top again for 2016. More likely it was the latter; in his 22 seasons on the …
Issue: November-December 2016
Cervical Cancer, Deep History, Diagnostic Chips
The front pages of the New York Times’ s news, arts, and science sections on September 27 featured articles bearing on pioneering research conducted by senior Harvard faculty members. The news article, “Fighting Cancer with Vinegar and Ingenuity,” …
Boston’s Cycleboat Cruises
Sipping their canned tequila cocktails, two young women who’d hopped aboard the Cycleboat Boston cruise gamely pedaled away from Charlestown’s Pier 6 . A briny breeze kicked up. Along with four other riders, including a just-married couple, they were out …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Undergraduate Through the Years
This magazine's "Undergraduate" column provides snapshots of contemporary student life. Some columns capture a moment in time; others demonstrate how the more things change, the more they stay the same. As Harvard celebrates its 375th anniversary, we …
Issue: September-October 2011
Fast Start
Although she will not move into the president’s office in Massachusetts Hall until July 1, President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust has launched her transition briskly. Drawing on her experience as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (in which …
Issue: May-June 2007