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The Undergraduate: Outsmarting Our Smartphones
One sketch from the pilot episode of Portlandia , Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen’s eclectic homage to the niche (read: hipster) culture of Portland, Oregon, has always resonated with me. Surrounded by an iPad, Macbook, and iPhone, Armisen becomes …
Issue: May-June 2015
Cherry Murray Steps Down as Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
Cherry A. Murray , dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) since mid 2009 , announced today that she would relinquish the post at the end of 2014. She intends to return to regular service on the faculty, according to the news …
Post-Regulatory School Reform
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United States was trying to come to grips with a serious education crisis. The country was lagging behind its international peers, and a many-decade effort to erode racial disparities in school achievement had …
Issue: September-October 2016
Football: Harvard 32, Brown 22
If one measure of a good football team is being able to win tough conference games on the road, then the 2016 edition of the Harvard Crimson took a step toward being a good football team this past Saturday at sun-splashed Brown Stadium. Using a balanced …
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Upsizing Samuels & Associates, the Harvard-designated developer for Barry’s Corner (at the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue) in Allston, in December filed its proposal for a residential and retail “commons” with 325 rental …
Issue: March-April 2013
Journey into Quabbin Reservoir’s Hidden Past
For Elena Palladino, Ed.M. ’13, the Quabbin Reservoir preserve in central Massachusetts is more than a wild place to explore. During the last six years, she has delved into the history of the region—and the lives of those forced to leave their communities …
Issue: September-October 2023
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Niemans of Note The seventy-fifth class of Nieman Fellows —24 journalists chosen to study at Harvard during the 2012-2013 academic year—will include two Nieman-Berkman Fellows in Journalism Innovation . The new partnership between the Nieman Foundation …
Issue: July-August 2012
Letters from Readers
Self-Fashioning I enjoyed Nannerl O. Keohane’s “Self-Fashioning in Society and Solitude” (September-October, page 42) with a friend and fellow Harvard graduate (class of 2003). We thought Keohane nicely described the tension between the life of action and …
Issue: November-December 2013
Imagining Harvard at 400
Five younger faculty members convened at the first Conversations @ FAS panel of 2012, to discuss what the University might become when it turns 400 in 2036. In so doing, they pursued a similar venture to that of a distinguished group of alumni who …
The Picture of Freedom
The two photographic albums at the center of the Boston Athenaeum’s current exhibit, “ Framing Freedom ,” are deceptively humble: small and squat, with worn leather covers and heavy metal clasps. But the albums, which belonged to nineteenth-century …
One Small Step for Music
In the summer of 1977, NASA rocketed two spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit. Their mission: explore the unexplored. NASA had already been to the moon; with Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, its Jet Propulsion Laboratory wanted to push beyond the outer planets and …
Issue: July-August 2020
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That Voice, Stilled The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, who had suffered a heart attack and subsequent stroke in December, as previously reported, died on February 28. His death …
Issue: May-June 2011
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After the ICU What a relief it was to read “What It Means to Be OK,” concerning Daniela Lamas and her post ICU care practice, by Lydialyle Gibson (January-February, page 38). Although I had found website help for my West Nile encephalitis recovery and …
Issue: March-April 2019
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Professor Summers Returns The White House on September 21 announced that Lawrence H. Summers would conclude his service as director of the National Economic Council--the principal economic-policy assistant to President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91--at year-end. …
Issue: November-December 2010
11 Percent Investment Return Boosts Value of Endowment to $27.4 Billion
Harvard’s endowment was valued at $27.4 billion as of June 30, the end of fiscal year 2010—up 5.4 percent from $26.0 billion at the end of fiscal 2009—according to the annual report released by Harvard Management Company (HMC). During the fiscal year just …