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College Admits 14.5 Percent of Early Action Applicants
The College admitted 14.5 percent of early-action applicants this fall, down from 14.8 percent last year, the University announced today. Of the 6,473 students who applied through the program, 938 were admitted (up from 6,167 and 914 last year, …
Do-Overs
Last April 27, toward the end of an academic year when protests about racial inequity and inclusion disrupted routines on many campuses, especially his own, Yale president Peter Salovey announced, “The name of Calhoun College will remain.” His letter to …
Issue: November-December 2016
Outstanding Alumni Interviewers
This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—named for Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, and retired senior admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective undergraduates. Karen Lorry …
Issue: September-October 2024
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 …
Greater Boston’s Season of “Social Trust”
In late May, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health assistant professor Joseph Allen put it bluntly: “This is going to be a very different summer.” Even as many parks and preserves that closed in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic began reopening …
Issue: July-August 2020
Harvard Loves Hard Hats
The crimson couture of choice this summer—for buildings and those engaged with them—was the shroud and the hard hat. In a frenzy of construction, the former Holyoke Center (being refurbished and transformed into Smith Campus Center) and Gordon Hall (at …
Issue: September-October 2016
The Art and Science of Class Scheduling
Organizing the Allston science complex has been protracted, but scheduling undergraduate classes on both sides of the Charles once the School of Engineering and Applies Sciences (SEAS) complex opens may prove harder. The shortest pedestrian route runs 1.5 …
Issue: July-August 2016
Brevia
Museum Management Jane Pickering —executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture since 2013—has been appointed Howells director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, reporting to Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine …
Issue: September-October 2019
The Pulse of a New Medical Curriculum
When he found out he would spend his third year of medical school based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, rather than rotating among hospital venues every few months, Babak Nazer knew he’d gain from having an ongoing group of physician mentors at the …
Issue: September-October 2006
Humanities Medals to Higginbotham, Fly
Thomas professor of history and of African and African American studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and architect and preservationist Everett L. Fly , who in 1977 became the first African American to earn a master of landscape architecture degree from the …
University People
Dean Dench Emma Dench Rose Lincoln/HPAC McLean professor of ancient and modern history and of the classics Emma Dench , the interim dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during the current academic year, will assume that post on a regular basis …
Issue: May-June 2018
Class Day Speech by Tim Russert
by Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press So, this is Harvard. Look at all those scholars sitting out there. The greatest gathering of intellects since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Thank you for inviting me. I guess Ali G. wouldn’t come back. Or you …
Aloian Memorial Scholars
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named seniors Grace O’Sullivan (Adams House) and Chibuikem Uche (Currier House) as the 2023 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars for thoughtful leadership and enriching the quality of life in their Houses. House …
Issue: November-December 2023
Poet Laura Kasischke and Orator Allen Counter To Speak at Literary Exercises
The director of The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, professor of neurology S. Allen Counter, and Laura Kasischke, a poet and novelist, will headline this spring’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises —the first formal event of …
Lights! Camera! Action!
It’s now 104 years old, but after a three-stage, $5-million makeover, Harvard Stadium may be one of the nation’s best-equipped college football venues. First came synthetic turf, rolled out before the 2006 season. After the season came a removable …
Issue: November-December 2007