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March-April 2021
March-April 2021 … issue …
January-February 2021
January-February 2021 … issue …
Regearing Ph.D. Education
The acronymically burdened final report of the GAGE working group (GSAS Admissions and Graduate Education), released early in the fall semester, is in fact a vigorous and urgent overview of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ intellectually central Ph.D. …
Issue: January-February 2024
Research Clusters Seek Climate Solutions
What can be done about climate change , and how can Harvard mobilize its research and educational capacities to address the broad range of unfolding impacts? With an announcement on February 13 of five climate research cluster grants—interdisciplinary, …
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
This spring, alumni can vote for five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by April 1, must be received back in Cambridge by noon on May 22 to be counted. Election results will be …
Issue: May-June 2015
The Short List
… to continue to investigate Clinton at least until the year 2025. The prospect of having a legal shadow over the …
November-December 2020
November-December 2020 … issue …
The “Surprise” Team?
Last April , the men’s basketball team gathered at the Harvard Club of Boston for its annual end-of-the-year banquet, to celebrate the 2014-2015 squad, which went 22-8 and captured the program’s fifth straight conference championship and fourth …
September-October 2020
September-October 2020 … issue …
The Elephant in the Room
Thursday nights, clops of dress shoes and clicks of high heels echo through the narrow streets of Harvard’s campus. Adjusting their ties and fixing their hair, members of the John Adams Society (JAS) descend on a House common room to examine life’s …
Issue: September-October 2023
July-August 2020
July-August 2020 … issue …
Brevia
Class Day Creativity On Wednesday afternoon, May 27, M.Arch. candidates from the Design School who were still in town arranged themselves on the (otherwise deserted) Widener steps for an impromptu class photo (above): the first with social-distancing …
Issue: July-August 2020
Ruth Simmons to Join Harvard as Senior Adviser
T his morning, Harvard announced that Ruth Simmons, Ph.D. ’73, LL.D. ’02,will join the University as senior adviser to the president on engagement with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Set to begin June 1, her role will focus on …
Crimson’s Mr. Green
Rob Gogan, Harvard’s recycling and waste manager, retired in October, having long done more than anyone else to instill a culture of waste-reduction, reuse (of furniture, for example), recycling, and composting throughout the University. Helped by friends …
Issue: January-February 2021
May-June 2020
May-June 2020 … issue …