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Sustainability Steps
Last September , the presidents of Harvard and Stanford, Drew Faust and John L. Hennessy, wrote a joint op-ed in the Huffington Post that outlined “What Universities Can Do About Climate Change.” Highlighting their institutions’ “wealth of intellectual …
Issue: January-February 2015
Examining Economic Webs
“ There was a longish period in the 1990s and the early part of this century when economic history was very much out of fashion, at least in history departments,” says Knowles professor of history Emma Rothschild . She has played a role in the recent …
Issue: November-December 2014
“He Found Himself at a Loss”
For the DeSanctis family, medicine had always been a way of life. Roman DeSanctis, M.D. ’55, was a renowned—and busy—cardiologist, and for his wife, Ruth, and four daughters, that often meant celebrating birthdays early in the morning, so that he could …
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) presented its 2022 Woman and Man of the Year awards to Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman on February 3 and February 5: the former a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award-winning film and television actress, …
Women, Working
When Harvard Business School's Baker Library amassed the bulk of its manuscript collection in the first half of the twentieth century, curators were mostly interested in big businesses and well-known industrialists. "Search aids and cataloging records did …
Issue: January-February 2002
A Workable Democracy
Justice Stephen G. Breyer, LL.B. ’64, sometimes says that his job and that of other members of the Supreme Court is to speak for the law. He does not mean that justices are Platonic Guardians, with ironclad power to impose their will on the nation despite …
Issue: March-April 2017
From the Field to the Front Office
A few weeks after her college graduation, Jessica Gelman ’97, M.B.A. ’02, landed in Israel, where she would spend a year playing Euro-League basketball. After her first practice, a reporter asked her “You went to Harvard, what are you doing here?” That …
Network for the Next Generation
The surveillance area of Harvard's network operations center (NOC) bears a fleeting resemblance to the helm of a starship. The large screen at center displays a schematic of Harvard's network nodes, each of which may represent individual computers or the …
Harvard on Housing
Deepening its involvement in Boston and Cambridge, Harvard has pledged financial support for affordable housing in the two cities. At a news conference held November 10 before an enthusiastic audience that included both cities' mayors, state …
The President's Grandfather
H ARVARD HAS about 125 notable old clocks. Fifty came in 1943 from Grenville L. Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89 (who gave to the Fogg Art Museum 3,700 treasures in all: archaic jades, paintings by Gainsborough and Ingres, Wedgwood in quantity, French …
Picture-book Publisher
Children’s book publisher Claudia Z. Bedrick ’85 knows the value of childhood memories. “There’s an intimacy we have with the books we fall in love with as young readers,” she says, and as head of Enchanted Lion Books, she has devoted herself to bringing …
Issue: January-February 2014
Winthrop House Next for Renewal
Winthrop will be the next undergraduate residence renovated as part of Harvard’s plan to renew the House system, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith announced on October 30. Winthrop is expected to close for 15 months, from Commencement …
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A Note to Readers We hope that you are safe and well—and that by the time this issue is posted online and reaches your mailbox, humanity will have made significant progress in reducing the baleful effects of the coronavirus (due in part to the …
Issue: July-August 2020
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
Giant Magellan Milestone
In Tucson's late summer heat , under the steeply raked eastern stands of the University of Arizona Stadium (“Home of the Wildcats”), technicians at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab this past weekend cast the third enormous mirror for the Giant Magellan …