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Harvard Layoffs Update, and More "Reshaping" to Come
Harvard's layoffs of staff members begun last week prompted a labor protest and extended public comment on news-media websites. Meanwhile, communications from deans to faculty and staff members at the affected schools reveal more about their financial …
EVP Forst to Leave Harvard
Executive Vice President Ed Forst '82, who joined Harvard last fall from Goldman Sachs, where he oversaw management of hundreds of billions of dollars of investment assets (and previously served as chief administrative officer), is leaving the University …
American Repertory Theater Moving to Harvard’s Allston Properties
The Harvard-affiliated American Repertory Theater (ART), now based in the Loeb Drama Center, which opened on Brattle Street in Cambridge in 1960, will relocate to a new home in Allston—a move catalyzed by a $100-million gift from David E. Goel ’93 and …
Harvard College’s Honor Code
Updated May 23, 3:00 P.M. where noted below. As expected, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on May 6 voted overwhelmingly to adopt an undergraduate honor code , effective in the fall of 2015. The code resulted from four years of work by the …
Accelerating Innovation
Douglas Melton was studying frog developmental biology in the 1990s. Then his young son developed type 1 diabetes, and he vowed to find a cure for the disease, which affects as many as 22 million people worldwide. He refocused his lab on the emerging …
Issue: March-April 2019
Brevia
Radcliffe Institute Interim Dean Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Barbara J. Grosz Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz , a computer scientist, has been named interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She succeeds …
Issue: July-August 2007
Football 2018: Harvard 21, Princeton 29
Where had we seen this scenario before? Forty-some seconds remaining. Harvard scoring to cut the traditional rival’s lead to 29-21. Now comes the onside kick. If the Crimson recovers, takes it in for a touchdown and then adds the two-point conversion, the …
Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions Make Opening Arguments
In a packed Boston courtroom Monday, Harvard and the anti-affirmative-action group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) presented arguments in the first day of trial of a four-year-old civil-rights lawsuit charging that the College’s admissions office …
Sommersemester
It is week 3 of my Sommersemester at the Freie Universität in west Berlin and finally—finally—I am hitting my stride. “In The Good Person of Szechuan, Berthold Brecht has created what looks at first like a parable about virtue and vice,” I …
Issue: July-August 2005
Unequal America
When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.” But such a decline is happening right now in some parts of the United …
Issue: July-August 2008
America and Latin America
George W. Bush is not the first president to make Latin America a personal priority. Nor is he the first to drop the region from his agenda when more urgent issues arise. Latin Americans are not sure whether they prefer presidential attention or neglect. …
Issue: January-February 2002
Harvard’s Governing Boards Refreshed
It’s the changing of the University guard: as President Drew Faust conducts her last Commencement and president-elect Lawrence S. Bacow prepares to succeed her on July 1, Harvard’s two governing boards have new personnel, too. The Corporation had a …
Tuning In to Urban Noise
Bells ring at St. Paul Church. A car honks. Pigeons coo. During a walk through the soundscape of Harvard Square, noise researcher and activist Erica Walker, S.D. ’17, hears it all. Even footfalls on the brick sidewalk intrigue her: “Sometimes they’re …
Issue: March-April 2018
Renegade Tastemakers
This winter , an exhibit of contemporary paintings in the basement of Davis Square’s Somerville Theatre features animals. Medusa Fries Fish, by Florida artist Christine House, is clearly symbolic—but of what? A wild-haired lass in a slinky red dress …
Issue: January-February 2018
The Fractured Faculty
Following the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on November 7—and a vote that rejected a motion opposing the College’s regulation of final clubs, fraternities, and sororities —the Harvard Crimson headlined “Sanctions Vote a Sigh of Relief for …