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Outstanding Service
Six alumni are to receive Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards—for outstanding volunteer service to the University through alumni activities—during the HAA board of directors’ fall meeting. Walter K. Clair Walter K. Clair ’77, M.D. ’81, M.P.H. ’85, of …
Issue: September-October 2016
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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
The Harvard Medalists of 2016
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced this year’s recipients of the Harvard Medal, which has been awarded since 1981 for extraordinary service to the University. They are: Thomas G. Everett, director emeritus of the Harvard Bands. Widely …
How We Eat Out Now
Earlier this year, the Cajun-French bistro Café du Pays in Kendall Square began selling foodstuffs, revamped its menu, and morphed into Vincent’s Corner Grocery. The name recalls a previous longtime business at the site, channeling the enduring spirit now …
Issue: November-December 2020
Being With the Other
“It wouldn’t be my life if I didn’t talk to Marilyn every day,” said artist Jill Slosburg-Ackerman. She was speaking during a Zoom discussion last week that marked the opening of the Radcliffe Institute’s first-ever online-only exhibition, “ Accompanied: …
Better Together
The New York Times described it as the “first rigorously tested insight into the biology behind any common psychiatric disorder.” I regard it as an exemplary demonstration of the unmatched potential of the Harvard medical ecosystem. Steven McCarroll, …
Issue: March-April 2016
Graduate School Doubles Paid Time Off for Student Parents
Beginning this fall, graduate students welcoming a new child will have access to 12 paid weeks away from teaching or research, double the current six-week benefit, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) announced last week. “I’m very happy that …
Harvard’s Social Media Influencers
Abigail Mack ’25 didn’t set out to become a minor internet celebrity; she just responded to a trend. Every year, thousands of high-school students post “reaction videos” of their getting accepted, waitlisted, or rejected from colleges. The more …
Issue: May-June 2022
Forum: Doing Less Harm
T he United States has far higher rates of firearm death than any of the more than two dozen other high-income countries (among them Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom). In 2015, for example, children in the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Gun Violence
Every year, 40,000 people in the United States are killed with firearms. But another 85,000 are shot and survive. A new study quantifying the impacts of gun violence on these survivors and their families finds that they face increased risk of mental …
Bullish on Private Colleges
In our July-August issue, Cizik professor of business administration Clayton M. Christensen and his former student, Michael B. Horn, of the Innosight Institute, made the case that the intersection of disruptive technologies with outmoded or failed …
Issue: November-December 2011
University People
National Academicians David Laibson Courtesy of David Laibson In a year in which 40 percent of its newly elected members were women, a new high, the National Academy of Sciences announced 100 new members, including nine Harvard professors: Joanna …
Issue: July-August 2019
Martha Minow Appointed Dean of Harvard Law School
President Drew Faust has appointed Smith professor of law Martha Minow dean of Harvard Law School, effective July 1; she succeeds Elena Kagan, now solicitor general of the United States. Minow, a member of the faculty since 1981, is described in the …
Are We Entering a Second Cold War?
In a discussion of the Russia-Ukraine War hosted by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Arne Westad, Elihu professor of history at Yale University, began with an overarching statement: “There is absolutely no doubt that this is, first …
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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