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Justice Seeker
Stephen j. rapp ’71 is no longer an assistant secretary of state, but his work to bring international criminals to justice is moving full speed ahead. Based in The Hague, he plays a leading role in the effort to put Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and …
Issue: March-April 2018
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 …
Oldest and First
Donning his Class of ’44 cap that he got at his 25th reunion fifty years ago—a signature wear, loved ones say—Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, led an all-alumni parade past the John Harvard Statue and into Tercentenary Theatre for today’s …
Harvard Doctoral Programs Highly Ranked
The National Research Council’s (NRC) Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs , released today, gave “exceptionally strong evaluations” to Harvard’s offerings, according to a statement released by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) dean Allan …
Off the Shelf
Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It, by Ganesh Sitaraman ’04, J.D. ’08 (Columbia, $17 paper). High fares, reduced service to small cities, and rotten consumer experiences are a choice, not an inevitability, writes the Vanderbilt law professor. He …
Issue: November-December 2023
Inclusive Design, Incisive Art
Amy Yoshitsu ’10 has been working on a mind map, a document that resembles a street map representing math, dreams, and a spreadsheet of the economic and social resources that go into the art she creates. Main arteries labeled “Systems,” “Racism,” and “The …
Issue: November-December 2023
Kennedy School’s Campus Makeover
The Harvard Kennedy School ’s (HKS) light and airy new campus, unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning, looks like an intentional antithesis to its older, stuffy buildings. As architect Graham Wyatt put it, “When we came to your campus, we …
Priscilla Chan Grants $12 Million for Public Service
When last seen on campus, during her tenth reunion, pediatrician Priscilla Chan ’07, poncho-clad, was applauding her husband, Mark Zuckerberg ’06, LL.D.’17 , Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, as he finally got his Harvard degree and delivered the address at …
New Masters Appointed for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses
Harvard College dean Evelynn Hammonds today announced the appointment of new masters and co-masters for Cabot, Eliot, and Mather Houses, respectively: Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor, and Stephanie Khurana Douglas Melton , a Faculty …
Synthetic Biology’s New Menagerie
In the summer of 2009, a team of Cambridge University undergraduates built seven strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli , one in each color of the rainbow. Red and orange carotenoid pigments were produced by inserting genes from plant pathogen Pantoea …
Issue: September-October 2014
Teaching the Harvard Slavery Report
Not quite a year after Harvard laid bare its historic ties to slavery in a detailed 134-page report , a small group of faculty members and teaching staff gathered on campus late last week for a two-day seminar on how to integrate that report’s findings …
Radio Wits
You’re at a dinner party with exceptionally witty guests, well versed on current events. Lots of laughs: the wisecracking atmosphere’s slightly competitive, though it hums with conviviality. After a bit, someone famous drops by for some banter and …
Issue: January-February 2010
Brevia
Tables Turned Oprah Winfrey, who usually plays host on her talk show, will be the guest—and featured talker—in Tercentenary Theatre on May 30, when she appears as the principal speaker at Commencement day’s Afternoon Exercises—the annual meeting of the …
Issue: May-June 2013
Wisdom of the Sages
The spring of 1933 was a trying time: the depths of the Depression, a new president scrambling to reverse systemic disasters and lift shattered spirits. Sound familiar? During that Commencement week, the Phi Beta Kappa Orator was Connecticut governor …
Issue: May-June 2021
The Future of Tuberculosis
Every year, tuberculosis —a preventable and often curable disease—kills about 1.5 million people around the world. The evasive bacterium infects one in three people worldwide. While most of the two billion people who carry it will never know, one in 10 …