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“Decarcerating” America
As she assumes her new role as organizing fellow for Harvard Law School’s new Institute to End Mass Incarceration (IEMI), community organizer Brittany White finds herself thinking of Bianca. She met her in 2009, when both women were serving prison …
Issue: November-December 2021
Events of the Week
The many rituals of graduation peak on Commencement day, which this year includes addresses by President Neil L. Rudenstine and Robert E. Rubin '60, chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup Inc. and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. For …
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 …
Gift Funds Neuroscience Research into Medical Marijuana
McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has received a $500,000 gift that funds their new Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) Program. The donation, announced on October 6, comes from …
Cinema with Gravitas
It was not much of a house at all: just a simple shack, with a dirt floor and ramshackle walls. But its owner, a Haitian sugarcane worker in the Dominican Republic, graciously let in the strangers who’d knocked at his door, offering them respite from the …
Issue: September-October 2014
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Green Goals A new task force, appointed by President Drew Faust on February 27, will examine Harvard’s greenhouse-gas emissions and recommend University goals for reducing them; it is to report by the end of the academic year. Brooks professor of …
Issue: May-June 2008
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2+2 = M.B.A. Harvard Business School (HBS) has launched a deferred-admissions program for future M.B.A. candidates, aiming to attract liberal-arts majors in science, government, or other fields who might not have considered such a degree. Undergraduates …
Issue: November-December 2007
Abreu, Menino, Pagels, and Oprah: The Honorands
During the Morning Exercises of the 362nd Commencement, on May 30, Harvard will confer honorary degrees on six men and three women, the University reports —among them a preeminent environmental economist, a public-health leader, a long-serving mayor, a …
Bearing Witness to Terrorism
On Monday night , students clipped on name tags, shuffled through metal detectors, and placed their phones in yellow manila envelopes, bracing themselves to witness unfathomable horrors. In Harvard Art Museums’ Menschel Hall, around 150 Harvard affiliates …
Raising the Ante
In the wake of Harvard’s December announcement, a host of other institutions—Haverford, Penn, Pomona, and Swarthmore among them—said they would replace loans with grant aid. (All such programs are tracked at the Project on Student Debt, …
Issue: March-April 2008
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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
Adams House Renewal Begins
On June 3 , construction began on the renewal of Adams House, marking the start of a project slated to take place in three phases spanning four years , to be completed by August 2023. Adams is the sixth House to be renewed under a multi-decade renewal …
Clarifying the Rules of Protest
In an email to the Harvard community on Friday afternoon, Interim President Alan M. Garber and Harvard’s deans released a statement clarifying University policy regarding “the guarantees and limitations” in campus protest and dissent. The clarification, …
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