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Well Done
The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities. This year’s recipients were to be honored on October 12 during the HAA board of directors’ annual fall meeting …
Issue: November-December 2009
Sagittarian Students
No shaky hands, please: stability is crucial. Three stabilizer rods, in fact, are attached to the center of your bow to steady it, like a tightrope walker’s pole. Take a nice, comfortable stance, feet perpendicular to the target. Pick up the bow, then tie …
Issue: November-December 2009
David Ellwood to Step Down
David T. Ellwood ’75, Ph.D. ’81, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School since his appointment by President Lawrence H. Summers in mid 2004 , announced today that he would step down next June 30. Ellwood is the longest-serving among the current decanal cohort: …
A Lone Star Saga
“The best I can describe it,” says Justin Deabler, of the years he spent writing his semi-autobiographical debut novel, “is that I was trying to answer questions that nobody was around to answer anymore. And that I couldn’t let go of.” Those …
Issue: March-April 2021
A Tale of Two Detectives
Lauren Mechling writes in the thriving young-adult genre. Above: The author's first solo novel. While preparing to interview Cecile von Ziegesar, author of the wildly popular Gossip Girl series, for a London newspaper, Lauren Mechling ’99 spent a week in …
Issue: September-October 2008
Harvard Proponent
Photograph by Jim Harrison Walter H. Morris Jr. The Harvard Alumni Association’s new president, Walter H. Morris Jr. ’73, M.B.A. ’75, may have left the University’s classrooms years ago, but he has never stopped learning at Harvard. He often returns for …
Issue: September-October 2008
Love’s Labors
At age 47, with a solid academic career and a grown daughter, Mary Brown Parlee ’65 fell suddenly in love—with a man she’d known for decades. They had worked together in an MIT lab during the 1960s and spent summers on nearby Maine islands with their …
Issue: March-April 2009
What Makes (and Remakes) a House
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) , in planning a major renovation of the 12 undergraduate residential Houses, has appointed a House Program Planning Committee “to examine the mission and purpose of House life and to develop an architectural space …
Issue: July-August 2008
Flocking to Finance
Recent graduates may take for granted the migration of one-fifth of their classmates into finance-sector jobs, but things haven’t always been this way. In a survey of 6,500 Harvard graduates from selected classes between 1969 and 1992, Claudia Goldin and …
Issue: May-June 2008
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
Theatrical Debut
Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) returns to its historic home this year for its 160th production. (Since the inaugural show in 1844, the group has missed only four years, taking a hiatus during each of the two world wars.) But the theater at 10-12 Holyoke …
Issue: January-February 2008
Decoding the Alphaviruses
The coronavirus pandemic was caused by a virus that made the leap from animals to humans. Responding quickly and effectively to such viruses requires some foreknowledge of how they enter human cells—often by using a receptor common to several species. …
Issue: May-June 2022
Ghosts in the Yard
Richard Lawrence Robert Crowder, M.P.A. ’07 Kennedy School of Government, delivers the Graduate English Oration titled "Ghosts in the Yard" for Harvard's 356th Commencement Exercises. (Speech as prepared ) Some of you may have entered Harvard Yard today …
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
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