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Aging Gracefully at Home
As board president of Staying Put in New Canaan, Tom Towers, M.B.A. ’64, believes in self-reliance. The Connecticut organization, modeled after Boston’s Beacon Hill Village, provides practical services, classes, and community connections for town …
Issue: January-February 2008
Kathy Delaney-Smith’s Final Act
In November , after her team thrashed Northern Illinois 70-53 in its home opener, Friends coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was asked about her recently announced plans to retire after the season, her fortieth at Harvard. “I’m not thinking about that,” the coach …
The Press Professor
Nicholas Lemann ’76 seems an unlikely candidate for the role of higher-education reformer. Best known as a columnist and Washington correspondent for the New Yorker, he doesn’t hold a graduate degree. He has taught occasional journalism classes, but has …
Issue: September-October 2005
Values and Voting Patterns
In an era of growing political polarization, new research moves beyond typical economic explanations, such as the loss of blue-collar manufacturing jobs, to offer a fresh take on how people make choices in the voting booth. Associate professor of …
Issue: January-February 2024
Place-Making with Plastic Tubes
To the passing observer , Autumn (...Nothing Personal) is merely a cluster of tall plastic yellow and orange tubes mounted on simple wooden benches in the middle of Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre. Artist Teresita Fern á ndez, a first-generation Cuban …
Court Filings Allege Discrimination Against Asian-Americans in Admissions
Hundreds of pages of analysis of Harvard’s admissions practices became public Friday in the latest development of a lawsuit alleging the University discriminates against Asian-American applicants in its admissions process. The suit, filed in 2014 by the …
Navigating Changing Careers
To find an era of upheaval in the nature of work comparable to the scale and impact of that underway now, professor of management practice Joe Fuller looks all the way back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. “What did [industrialization] …
“A Profession Based on Honor and Trust”
In the past decade, President Drew Faust has honored 74 Harvard students as they took their oaths of office during Commencement week’s annual Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony—six of them on Wednesday morning, in the last such …
A Progress Report on Faculty Diversity
Just last year, the statistics department hired its first tenured female professor, Susan Murphy. Lauren Williams ’00 will join the math department next fall, the second tenured woman in that department’s history. Their hires reflect Harvard’s growing …
Near Misses
They each had their shot. After a season that yielded some strong wins but also unfortunate losses for the men’s and women’s basketball teams, both came up just short of reaching the NCAA tournament. For the men, the shot at the NCAAs was literal: with …
Issue: May-June 2018
Gender and the Academy
The April 6 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education ’s opinion section, The Chronicle Review , is devoted entirely to the theme of “The Awakening: Women and Power in the Academy,” featuring essay responses from women academics on that theme. Here …
Near and Distant Objectives
The opening words of Noah Feldman’s latest book, The Arab Winter, are in Arabic: Al-sha‘b Yurid Isqat al-nizam! The people Want The overthrow of the regime! As he explains in his first sentence, “These words, chanted rhythmically all over the …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Pleasure of Noticing
At the Harvard Film Archive , the staff called it V-Day: the date of Agnès Varda’s arrival in Cambridge, for appearances at screenings of Faces, Places (2017) and Vagabond (1985), and for her 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema the next week. When the French …
A Championship Tune-up
After going 5-10 in non-conference play, the Harvard men’s basketball team appeared a long shot to win the Ivy League championship. Not anymore. Harvard defeated Cornell 98-88 in double overtime on Friday and throttled Columbia 93-74 on Saturday, avenging …
The Senior Housing Shortfall
As the ranks of American seniors swell with aging baby boomers, most say they hope to age in place. But that may not be possible, experts at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) predict. They note that there is an acute lack of safe, …
Issue: March-April 2023