Search
The “Upstander”
Dean Martha L. Minow has two desks in her Harvard Law School office. The one she sits at is a rosewood partners’ desk, wide enough for two people to work at face to face. It belonged to Joseph Story, A.B. 1798, LL.D. 1821, who in 1812, at 32, became the …
VES’s Valedictory
Harvard’s department of visual and environmental studies (VES) will emerge, like a butterfly from a chrysalis, with a new identity better reflecting what it actually does , if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) embraces a proposal to change its name …
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
Unveiled
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, A.B. 1886, LL.B. '89, had a passion for beauty. He had financial resources, leisure, and eclectic tastes, and indulged his passion hugely. Yet, from what one may know of him, he seems in certain aspects of his life a pathetic …
Issue: March-April 2003
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
Reforming Misdemeanors
Thirteen million times each year, American prosecutors file criminal misdemeanor charges. These crimes are often described as “minor,” ranging from “victimless crimes” (jaywalking and loitering) to harmful infractions (domestic violence and drunk …
Issue: January-February 2025
The Teddy Bear Effect
Most Fortune 500 CEOs—roughly 95 percent of them, in fact—are white men. Line up headshots of these leaders and plenty of pronounced chins, square jaws, salt-and-pepper hair, and other physical features suggesting maturity, masculinity, and gravitas are …
Issue: January-February 2019
Summers to Direct Center for Business and Government
As reported , Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers has concluded his service as director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and has resumed his academic position at the University . He will be based at the Harvard …
“Like Driving at Night”
It may seem odd that Maggie Shipstead ’05, whose third novel, Great Circle , arrives this spring, didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. The current Los Angeles resident—born in Orange County, but peripatetic for a few years in-between—remembers reading …
Issue: May-June 2021
HAA Award Winners
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to the University through alumni activities. This year’s awards ceremony took place on October 14, during the HAA board of directors’ fall meeting. Six …
Issue: November-December 2010
The “Toxicity of Low Expectations”
At a time when less than 50 percent of Americans grow up to earn more than their parents, how can higher education help move the needle, especially for low-income students? This was the overarching question in the Radcliffe Day panel discussion moderated …
Harvard Launches Center for LGBTQ Health
The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute announced the launch of a new LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence on June 4, in partnership with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Citing both the LGBTQ community’s growing size in the US and the …
Big Sky Blues
In high school , Philip Aaberg 71 took train voyages lasting 12 hours each way between his hometown of Chester, Montana, and Spokane to study piano with master teacher Margaret Saunders Ott. Four decades later, Ott is 86 and Aaberg still makes the same …
Issue: November-December 2006
Off the Shelf
“Much of the time we spend in gatherings with other people disappoints us,” warns professional facilitator Priya Parker, M.P.P. ’12. After this deflating introduction, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Riverhead, $28) offers a breezy …
Issue: September-October 2018
The Campaign Computes
As it proceeded during the fall semester, The Harvard Campaign featured a penultimate school’s launch (medicine); another galvanizing gift (computer sciences); and interesting evidence of the effects ofsmaller-scale philanthropy across the University, …
Issue: January-February 2015