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A Language Out of Nothing
For the first time in more than two decades, Harvard began offering an American Sign Language (ASL) course last fall. Assistant professor of linguistics Kathryn Davidson, who works on sign languages, happened to join the linguistics department in 2015—at …
Issue: May-June 2017
Quiet, Please
On a bright Monday afternoon, the fairy godmother of introverts—author Susan Cain, J.D. ’93, whose book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking caught fire five years ago—was sitting with her team around a long wooden table …
Issue: March-April 2017
Forward, March
The day after leaving the U.S. Army, Spencer Kympton, M.B.A. ’04, packed up a U-Haul truck and drove from Georgia to Cambridge. The West Point valedictorian, who grew up in a military family, had spent eight years as an aviation officer on tours in Korea, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Frenetic Fall
The fall semester began with a lot of news, including capital-campaign developments (see “Capitalizing,” page 26); the annual endowment report (plus announcement of the investment managers’ new senior leadership—see “Close to Par,” page 32); and further …
Issue: November-December 2014
Brevia
The Corporation Reconfigured The two longest-serving members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s senior governing board, have announced that they will conclude their service at the end of the academic year. Both Robert D. Reischauer ’63 (top …
Issue: January-February 2014
Rebecca Henderson: Does Capitalism Need to be Reimagined?
Climate change is out of control, leading many people to question whether it isn’t just fossil fuels, but our entire economic system, that needs to be replaced. In this episode, Harvard Business School economist Rebecca Henderson talks through her …
Derek Bok on Technology and Teaching
Harvard president emeritus Derek Bok, speaking at the six-hundredth anniversary of the University of St Andrews on September 14, focused squarely on the application of information technology to the classroom. Framing his remarks, Bok said it was easy to …
African and African-American Studies Celebrates 50 Years
Last Saturday evening , toward the end of a two-day symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the African and African-American studies department (AAAS)—an event filled with stories and music, memories of struggle and achievement, and with …
Inner Senses
When Nicholas Bellono brought a live California two-spot octopus back to his lab for the first time, he was nervous. Octopuses are highly intelligent. They’re also known to escape through the tiniest openings. “I just watched it for a bit,” he remembers. …
Issue: March-April 2023
Brevia
Solar Expanse Have 1.5 acres of flat roof space, will go solar. Borrego Solar Systems installed 2,275 solar photovoltaic panels (Harvard’s largest campus solar array) atop the Gordon Indoor Track and tennis complex, creating 591.5 kilowatts of clean- …
Issue: September-October 2012
Divestment Debate, Overseer Slate
T he debate over whether the University should divest any investments in fossil-fuel production from the endowment, begun nearly a decade ago, has reached a new level of intensity in recent months. In the fall, faculty advocates of divestment, who had …
Issue: January-February 2020
Two-Term President, Two-Time Poet Laureate
The annual Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre—in many ways the intellectual center of Commencement week exercises, at least for College seniors and their families—this year features two particularly interesting guests. The poet will be …
“One Less Investment Banker”
On a rutted dirt road in rural Henan Province, Chung To, A.M. ’91, entered a destitute farmhouse. Before a dimly lit family altar with images of the Buddha, Mao, and departed kin, two grandparents nudged their granddaughter to greet the visitor. To …
Issue: September-October 2011
Football: Harvard 23, Princeton 20 (OT)
The white-jerseyed quarterback picked the low snap from center up off the wet turf and headed left toward the end zone five yards away. At the two he was clutched by an orange-clad defender. The quarterback lunged toward the goal line and thrust out his …
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 …