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Under Review: Tony Saich on Chinese Communism at 100
Tony Saich begins his magisterial account of the hundred-year history of the Chinese Communist Party (with publication timed for the centennial, this July) with a conundrum. The CCP today has almost 90 million members. With branches in more than 4.5 …
Issue: July-August 2021
The New Tenure Track
Mary Lewis, a member of the faculty since 2002 and previously Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, has been named professor of history. Gita Gopinath, a member of the faculty since 2005 and previously associate professor of economics, has been …
Issue: September-October 2010
Lorenzo Tañada
“Have you known how it feels to be tear-gassed?” the 86-year-old former senator shouted at police chiefs and generals after a September 1985 demonstration in Manila. Lorenzo M. Tañada, LL.M. ’28, had joined what he called “the parliament of the streets,” …
Issue: November-December 2020
Graduate-Student Squeeze
Harvard graduate students will receive stipend increases of 1.5 percent next year, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Xiao-Li Meng wrote in an email to students this week. The increase represents a significant reduction from previous …
Endowment Overhaul
Beginning his eighth week as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC), N.V. Narvekar on January 25 announced sweeping changes in how the University’s $35.7-billion endowment will be invested. Change was expected. HMC’s average annualized rate …
Issue: March-April 2017
Are Mushrooms the New Meat?
On the western side of Martha’s Vineyard, a dirt road winds past secluded summer homes with ocean views and then dead-ends at an eerie sight: 45,000 oak logs stacked in crosshatch formations under a canopy of trees. In the nearby lot, young men with …
Issue: July-August 2019
What’s in the New Dining Workers’ Contract?
Harvard dining workers are celebrating the end of their 22-day strike this week, following a Wednesday vote of 583-1 approving the new contract between the University and UNITE HERE Local 26, the union that represents Harvard University Dining Services …
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 …
Academic Harvard: The Inaugural Symposiums
Visiting dignitaries from other colleges and universities, and friends of Harvard present for the occasion, were served a continental breakfast-cum-edification at “A Taste of Harvard,” under the tent on the Science Center Plaza: fuel plus exhibitions on …
Brevia
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
Lighting the World
During the past few decades, colorful abstractions by Ellen Carey have exemplified the Greek origins of the word photography— pho - s for light, graphis for drawing. “I capture light working with film and chemistry” while mining the materiality of the …
Issue: November-December 2023
Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent
A dissent by Justice Elena Kagan, J.D. ’86, in June illustrated why she won acclaim as a writer when she began to publish opinions after joining the Supreme Court in 2010. In the case, the six Republican-appointed justices made it much harder for the …
Issue: November-December 2022
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 …
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
Hearing History
Lei Liang’s Xiaoxiang, a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize, is not the virtuosic tour de force one might expect of a saxophone concerto, a form showcasing technical skill. Liang’s starring instrument trembles, croons, and cries, traversing the …
Issue: January-February 2016