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Finding a Fellow The search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation—to fill the vacancy created by Conrad K. Harper’s resignation last July—is in the hands of a six-member committee. Its members are three current Fellows of the Corporation ( …
Issue: November-December 2005
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s Public Health Address
My warm greetings and congratulations to all 2021 graduates of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to Dean Michelle Williams, and to all faculty, family, and friends. I want to start by thanking Dean Williams and the School of Public Health for …
A Verdant Cultural Retreat
Before stepping through the Gothic Revival gates of Forest Hills Cemetery, tour guide Dee Morris tells visitors, “Take your troubles, anything that’s bothering you, and leave them out here.” The 275 acres of towering trees, winding paths, sculptures, and …
Issue: March-April 2022
Gender Gap
On January 14, President Lawrence H. Summers appeared as a luncheon speaker at "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce," a two-day symposium hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Addressing a national academic audience -- rather …
Issue: March-April 2005
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Gender Milestone For the first time, slightly more women than men will enroll in the cohort of students entering Harvard College, making the class of 2008 an historic group even before they begin their studies. Although the official final count awaits the …
Issue: September-October 2004
“A Rule-Based System”
UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, LL.D. '04, spoke as the guest of the Harvard Alumni Association at its annual Commencement day meeting. Excerpts from his address, "Three Crises, and the Need for American Leadership," follow. Kofi Annan Photograph by …
Issue: July-August 2004
Caring for the Caregivers
Not long after his wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Tom Lee picked up a book on caregiving, one of the many he’d devour in those early, frightening weeks, when the future felt suddenly impossible to imagine. Amid all the information and …
Issue: January-February 2025
Remaking the Grid
Paolo Pasco ’22 was still a high-school freshman when he learned that one of his crossword puzzles had been accepted for publication by The New York Times . “I was just getting out of gym class,” he recalls, “and I saw the subject line “crossword yes” …
Issue: March-April 2019
The Will of the Donor
As an intern at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in the summer of 2023, I spent my days in a sun-drenched Tuscan villa, studying in the wood-paneled library and sharing homemade Italian lunches paired with Harvard-label wine. Fresh focaccia was served every …
Issue: November-December 2024
“Harvard Guy” Ryan Fitzpatrick Rides High in the NFL
Led by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, the resurgent Buffalo Bills are treating their long-suffering fans to something resembling a dream season. The Bills had victories in four of their first six games, including an upset of the top-tier New England …
Upstairs, Downstairs
When the janitors and dining hall staff arrive at 6 a.m., the Currier House dining hall resembles a poorly conceived seventeenth-century Dutch still life: blue plastic trays piled on top of one another, cups running over, remnants of yesterday's kung kung …
Endowments: The Specter of Taxation
After a year in which President Drew Faust and fellow university leaders successfully persuaded members of Congress to sustain federal funding for scientific research—in opposition to the Trump administration’s budget outline—they now find the tax …
Raising Her Voice
For many years, Reid Parsons ’15 didn’t think of her voice as something to be trained. It was always just there, a natural part of growing up with her musical family in Vermont’s Mad River Valley: singing “little ditties” with her grandmother, learning as …
Issue: January-February 2023
The War in Europe
Ukraine has proved to be a different kind of emergency. Unlike Afghan scholars, for whom the threat is so dire that the only choice is to evacuate as many as possible, many Ukrainians prefer, at least for now, Jane Unrue says, to remain in their own …
Issue: January-February 2023
Yesterday's News
1922 An explosion of liquid oxygen in Jefferson Labs takes the lives of an engineering graduate student and a carpenter working in the building. 1927 The John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge is dedicated on May 14. Henry Hornblower, representing the firm of …
Issue: May-June 2002