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HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
The HAA Clubs and SIGs Committee Awards honor both individuals who provide exemplary service to those groups, and groups that have themselves organized exceptional programming. This year’s awards were presented to the following recipients at the HAA board …
Issue: March-April 2015
The New Little Magazines
Seven hundred people were surrounded by taxidermied peacocks and monkeys in the lounge of New York’s Jane Hotel. That evening this spring, they gathered beneath the erratic light of a disco ball. And they were there to talk about literature. When Kiara …
Issue: September-October 2023
Campus Conversations on Speech
At Harvard , there are research areas that can’t be investigated, subjects that can’t be broached in public, and ideas that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So says a group of more than 120 Harvard faculty members, who have formed a Council on Academic …
Issue: September-October 2023
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
Hot Canvases
Every day when he goes to work at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, sees an empty frame on the wall. It used to hold Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert —one of 13 paintings stolen from the Gardner in the early-morning hours …
Issue: March-April 2012
What They Earned
As a nonprofit organization, Harvard is required to submit Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service each year. The fiscal year 2018 documents for the University and for the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which invests the endowment, were released …
“Authentic” Versus “Constrained” Choices in the Classroom
A professor in an introductory science course discovers that some students are falling behind in their work, apparently because they haven’t bought the textbook. “Buy the book, don’t be cheap,” he exhorts. For students who have a parental credit card, or …
Hypervelocity Stars
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a crowded, busy neighborhood: clusters upon clusters of pulsating young stars, giant clouds of gas, dying stars exploding, and, in the middle of it all, a massive black hole. So powerful is the gravitational pull of …
Issue: November-December 2010
Matthew Nock Appointed Professor of Psychology
Matthew Nock , previously Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, has been granted tenure and is now professor of psychology. Nock , whose study of suicidal children was featured in the 2009 Harvard Magazine article " Helping Those Most in Need …
From Corporate Lawyer to Waffle Entrepreneur
By the time Emily Cole Groden, J.D. ’15, was 10 years old, she knew what she wanted to do for the rest of her life: practice corporate law. She didn’t know exactly what that entailed, but she was resolute in her decision. “My dad was a corporate lawyer, …
Encouraging Esperanto
Cu vi parolas Esperanton? (Do you speak Esperanto?) For many, the answer may be surprising: more than two million people worldwide do, including Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78. Esperanto, devised by Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof and introduced in an 1887 booklet, is the …
Issue: January-February 2016
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
Should Convicted Felons Serve on Juries?
Should convicted felons be allowed to serve on juries, sitting in judgment on their fellow citizens? On June 2, Premal Dharia, inaugural director of Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration, moderated a discussion of this question, at an …
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
“Well, let me just tell you that I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” said Melvin B. Miller ’56 in an interview with this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was …
Crimson Campaign Consultants
Like many Harvard students in their senior spring, Nathán Goldberg ’18 and William Long ’18 had big ideas for their future as they prepared for graduation. Both had a background in Big Data. Both were brought deeper into national politics as the 2016 …