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• Alumni Abroad • Well Done • Harvard@Home • Hiram Hunn Awards • Call for Nominations Alumni Abroad The Harvard Alumni Association is sponsoring a "Harvard in Europe" conference, designed to "engage our global alumni in the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Brevia
Bettering Government Gail Christopher Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office With a $50-million endowment grant--its largest ever--the Ford Foundation has underwritten a new Institute for Government Innovation at the Kennedy School. The largest donation in the …
Rebel Lawyer
With the sun finally fading on a blazing spring afternoon in Los Angeles, Gerald López, J.D. ’74, was sitting down to a simple dinner—salad, bread, Prosecco—at a restaurant a few blocks from the UCLA campus, where he teaches law. He has spent most of his …
Issue: September-October 2018
Repatriating Native American Remains
When Joseph P. “Joe” Gone ’92 was a student at Harvard, the University was inventorying the thousands of Native American remains stored at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act …
Issue: September-October 2021
Building Toward a Kidney
“All right,” says David Kolesky, Ph.D. ’16. “The moment of truth.” As many times as he’s done this, there’s still always that pause. Wearing blue latex gloves and a white lab coat, Kolesky is about to see what the morning’s work has yielded. In front of …
Issue: January-February 2017
End of the Melting Pot?
In 1986, after receiving amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act, Jorge Montes began looking for a good place to raise his family. He settled on Gainesville, Georgia, a small manufacturing city outside Atlanta, because it reminded him of his …
Issue: May-June 2007
Radcliffe Women Share Their Stories
Almost 70 years after graduating from Radcliffe, Jewelle Taylor Gibbs ’55 still keeps in touch with classmates across the country. She fondly recalls memories of the women’s liberal-arts college, founded in 1879 as the counterpart to the then all-male …
Issue: July-August 2021
Hidden Treasures
On a recent visit to Broad Street, the heart of New Britain’s “Little Poland,” not a word of English was heard. Customers lined up for kielbasa at Krakus Meat Market, and picking out blintzes and cukierki czekoladowe (chocolate candies) at Polmart , or …
Issue: March-April 2018
Debating Divestment in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
This afternoon, at its regularly scheduled faculty meeting—which happened to fall on the day after President Donald Trump moved formally to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) …
Boosting College Financial Aid
Harvard’s new undergraduate financial-aid policies, affecting even students from high-income families, were announced on December 10—and received national attention, setting off debate on financial aid generally, private institutions’ use of their …
Issue: March-April 2008
Social Investing
In creating a diverse portfolio for Harvard's $17.5-billion endowment, the University's investment arm, Harvard Management Company (HMC), invests in hundreds of firms. That means weighing the probable return against the probable risk across scores of …
Issue: July-August 2003
Evolution, Synthesized
Few people would have the credentials, history, background, or brazen confidence to write a book with so definitive a title as What Evolution Is. But few would deny the right of Ernst Mayr, S.D. '80, Agassiz professor of zoology emeritus, to produce such …
Issue: March-April 2002
Football: Harvard 51, Rhode Island 21
As the 143rd season of Harvard football kicked off last Friday night at the Stadium, it took two minutes and eight seconds for the long-awaited regime of quarterback Joe Viviano ’17 to establish itself. That was the elapsed time of the Crimson’s scoring …
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 …
"Hell's Aardvarks" at 50
In the antediluvian days before e-mail, the Harvard Crimson's notice column published an alphabetical list announcing student events. Space limitations often swallowed notices at the end of the alphabet--like those of Harvard Yearbook Publications (HYP), …