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Design Departure Alan A. Altshuler Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office Alan A. Altshuler , dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design since February 2005 (and acting dean for several months before that), announced on October 23 that he would step down at …
Issue: January-February 2007
Ski All About It
Appalachian Mountain Club 603-466-2727 www.outdoors.org/lodging/mainelodges/lyford/lodge-to-lodge-skiing.cfm Natural snow and 80 miles of groomed trails (without set tracks) run between and around two lodges, Little Lyford and Gorman Chairback. (A third …
Issue: November-December 2013
Supporting Young Scientists
What does it mean to be part of a community of scientists? For Chimdimnma (“Chi-Chi”) Esimai ’08, it meant, for one thing, having a ready group of basketball opponents. On a typical evening this summer, Esimai finished work in the Engineering Sciences …
Issue: September-October 2006
First-hand recollections
Harvard University Sports Information Herman "Gunny" Gundlach '35, Harvard's oldest living football captain "It was just a thrill to walk out in that stadium. You felt like you were going to war. Just before the Yale game, our coach, Eddie Casey, liked to …
Issue: September-October 2003
Harvard Calendar
SPECIAL. The tenth annual ArtsFirst festival, offering dozens of student performances of music, dance, and drama, most of them free and open to the public, is slated for May 2-5 in and around Harvard Square. Visit www.fas.harvard.edu/~arts. Bring a picnic …
Issue: May-June 2002
James W. Breyer Elected to Harvard Corporation
Venture capitalist James W. Breyer, M.B.A. '87, a partner at Accel Partners , has been elected a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the University's senior governing board. In the news announcement , President Drew Faust and senior fellow Robert D. …
Far from Clueless
Like many Harvard seniors, Sofia Lidskog '01 interviewed for jobs with investment banks and management consulting firms in New York City. "I was on the treadmill with everybody else," she says. "But my heart wasn't in it. I wanted to perform." Less than a …
Issue: January-February 2002
Independent Yet Integral, a Relevant "Refuge for Scholars": The Radcliffe Institute at 10
For MIT geophysicist Maria Zuber , a 2003 Radcliffe Fellowship opened her eyes to the benefits of bringing a humanistic approach to arguing for the sciences—a discovery that led her to use a quote from Maya Angelou as she made her pitch for NASA to award …
Making America Competitive Again
Racial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, and a failing public education system are just a few of the many serious problems the United States government can’t seem to fix. Political gridlock, the cause, is so deep-set that some business leaders worry it …
Issue: July-August 2021
The Director’s Half-Decade
With The Harvard Campaign concluded and a new University president in office, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has pivoted to take on new challenges and priorities. The organization is charged with engaging a wildly diverse cohort of 371,000 alumni …
Issue: May-June 2019
“No more pencils, no more books…”
Even in elementary school, one suspects, the incursion of technology—tablets, laptops, smartphones—has now rendered all but obsolete students’ venerable end-of-year ditty: “No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers’ dirty looks….” In the College …
Issue: May-June 2019
The 2011 Honorary Degree Recipients
The University announced that at the morning exercises today, Harvard will confer honorary degrees on six men and three women. Brief profiles appear here; for the formal degree citations, check back later. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee Plácido Domingo The …
Admissions Agenda
Edward Blum is certainly lucky. In late 2014, when his Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed suit against Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) aiming, as its website puts it, to “eliminate race and ethnicity from college admissions,” …
Issue: July-August 2022
Salads with Panache
The high desert and gourmet salads; experience as both a fashionista and a farmer. Unlikely pairings apparently come naturally to Erin Wade ’03, farmer, chef, and owner of Vinaigrette, a salad bistro in Santa Fe. The menu at her 68-seat establishment (100 …
Issue: November-December 2011
Men and Their Castles
Architect Ogden Codman Jr. grew up in the shadow of two men: his great grandfather John and his “bad uncle Richard.” John Codman III embodied ideals of the English aristocracy, and dutifully expanded the family’s gracious Codman Estate in Lincoln, …
Issue: September-October 2024