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Criminal Injustice
In early 2014, Alec Karakatsansis, J.D. ’08, used some of the money that he and a law-school classmate had recently received from the school’s Public Service Venture Fund seed grant to buy a plane ticket to Birmingham, Alabama, and rent a car. He planned …
Issue: September-October 2017
A. Clayton Spencer Appointed President of Bates
A. Clayton Spencer, vice president for policy since 2005, has been elected the eighth president of Bates College , effective July 1. Spencer has worked in Massachusetts Hall for a decade and a half, serving presidents Neil L. Rudenstine, Lawrence H. …
Elbow Room
No outward sign sets the pale yellow house at 31 Inman Street apart from its neighbors. Someone going on a literary pilgrimage in Cambridge might start a mile away, at 104 Irving Street, where e.e. cummings ’15 grew up; then head west, to 16 Ash Street, …
Issue: March-April 2016
“Even Higher” Education
Between 2011 and 2036, Harvard’s river-spanning campus in Cambridge and Allston became a magnet for mature professionals. It offered a unique advantage not available online: access to idea exchange and connections across the whole University, including …
Issue: September-October 2011
The Endowment: Up, and Upheaval
A strong year for investors generally was a very strong year for the University. Harvard Management Company (HMC), concluding its first full year under new leadership, reported on August 21 that the endowment had risen to $34.9 billion during the fiscal …
Active Duty in a Pandemic
From early April to the beginning of June, Richard Menger, M.P.A. ’16, who normally teaches neurosurgery and political science at the University of South Alabama, left his hotel at 6 a.m. each morning with three other doctors, all in uniform, and walked …
Science Dean, Soccer Judge
In an all-volunteer youth soccer league, brave parents must rise to the occasion and create order from cleated and shin-guarded chaos. In the early 2000s, one such parent was Frank Doyle, now dean of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied …
Issue: July-August 2019
The Loneliness Pandemic
Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m. to midnight. To him, that didn’t seem so bad. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.” On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent about 20 hours a week …
Issue: January-February 2021
Yesterday’s News
1919 Alice Hamilton is appointed assistant professor of industrial medicine, becoming the first woman to hold a professorial position at the University. 1939 A negotiated agreement on raises ends the threat of a strike by dining hall workers, and the …
Issue: March-April 2024
On the Road with Death
In a world where buses are "flying coffins" and "moving morgues" and pedestrians should tremble, pulblic-health experts take on a neglected epidemic. by Christopher Reed On June 23, 1998 , Michael Reich, vacationer, was driving with his family in a rented …
Issue: November-December 2002
Paper Persists
Paper lives. Two recent reminders that paper still has a purpose have come to Primus’s attention. Daniel D. Reiff ’63, Ph.D. ’70, an art historian at Fredonia State University who retired as SUNY Distinguished Service Professor emeritus in 2004, wrote …
Issue: May-June 2019
Allston Development Director Departs—Updated
Christopher M. Gordon, who joined the University in 2005 to direct accelerated development of the University’s planned campus growth in Allston, has decided to relinquish his position. President Drew Faust announced in an e-mail today that Gordon, who is …
Mysteries
Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office The new spirit house at Adams House Darting a glance at the structure at right, avian visitors to Randolph Courtyard at Harvard’s Adams House might tweet with delight that so impressive an edifice had been …
Issue: March-April 2011
Educating “Citizens and Citizen Leaders”
In his book-lined office in University Hall, Rakesh Khurana keeps handy a well-worn copy of Samuel Atkins Eliot’s 1848 A Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of Its Present State. The slender, red volume arrived in the mail last summer, an …
Issue: July-August 2015
No. Not Yet. Never.
Primus’s dentist once had him in the chair, mouth wide and jammed with oral hardware, when the dentist revealed that he had spent the morning in court in divorce proceedings initiated by his wife. “There is no pain worse,” said the dentist, drill poised, …
Issue: July-August 2009