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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
HAA Award Winners
Six alumni have received the Harvard Alumni Association’s 2023 HAA Awards for their outstanding service to the University. Michael R. Alderete ’79, of San Francisco, a longtime alumni interviewer, has co-chaired the Harvard College schools and …
Issue: November-December 2023
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
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 …
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 …
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
Harvard Changes Employee Health Benefits
The University announced today that under its health-benefits program, Harvard’s nonunionized employees would become responsible for annual deductibles of $250 per individual and $750 per family, and coinsurance equal to 10 percent of costs, for hospital …
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 …
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 …
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
In Joplin, Missouri, a group of women that includes Harvard alumnae is creating a new college of dental medicine, helping to bridge a gap that seldom makes headlines: the scarcity of oral health care in rural America. Across the country, the number of …
Postscript
In its September-October 1996 issue, Harvard Magazine published "The Millenial Class," a selection of admissions essays submitted by six successful applicants to the Harvard College class of 2000. The editors' judgment was doubly flawed--this year, we …
Geoffrey A. Fowler , Caille Millner
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
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 …