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July-August 2020
July-August 2020 … issue …
Efficiency and Productivity in the Academy
Speaking at the February 1 Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting—two years to the day from the detection of the first Massachusetts case of COVID-19—Dr. Giang Nguyen, executive director of the University Health Services, disclosed an astonishing fact about …
Issue: May-June 2022
Adams House Advances
During a forum with Adams House residents on February 19, Nathaniel Rogers ’05, a project architect from Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB), reviewed the plans drawn to date for the three-phase renewal of the 450-student residence, beginning this summer (when …
Public Health with Empathy
W hen Ophelia Dahl was 18, she traveled from her home in the English countryside to poverty-stricken Haiti. In rural Haiti, she witnessed conditions that she described as “positively medieval”: little access to water, poor housing conditions, and rampant …
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
John Manning Appointed Interim Provost
Alan M. Garber, Harvard’s interim president since January 2 , today announced that John F. Manning, dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2017 , will serve as interim provost beginning March 14. Carter professor of general jurisprudence John C.P. …
May-June 2020
May-June 2020 … issue …
“Armenian creativity, culture, and survival”
In 1207 an elderly scribe in the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia completed the Garabed Gospel. Although blinded by the 11-year undertaking, he completed the 250 inked, goat-skin pages, with decorative marginalia, at a monastery near what is now southern …
Issue: January-February 2022
A Return to the Beloved Community
“I’m going to tell you three stories,” said Reginald Dwayne Betts to listeners at the Cambridge Public Library Tuesday evening, at the start of remarks honoring Martin Luther King Jr. A Harvard visiting lecturer in English, Betts is a poet, practicing …
March-April 2020
March-April 2020 … issue …
Football 2023: Harvard 38-Columbia 24
Guess who is in first place in the Ivy League, with its destiny in its hands? Harvard, that’s who. With a 38-24 defeat of Columbia on Saturday, the Crimson, which entered the game ranked No. 19 in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), rose to 7-1 …
Parkes Named Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
David C. Parkes , Colony professor of computer science, will become dean of Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) on October 15. An expert in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to design efficient …
Trade Cards in the Age of Invention
In the United States, the late nineteenth century was an age of invention. Machines for sewing and laundering clothes heralded relief from domestic drudgery. Packaged foods, including tinned meats and breads, made their mass-market debut, and patent …
Issue: July-August 2021
January-February 2020
January-February 2020 … issue …
Serving a “Truly Mission-Driven” Institution
D uring a wide-ranging, reflective conversation at Massachusetts Hall on the morning of May 11, just weeks before the conclusion of his 12-year Harvard Corporation tenure on June 30, senior fellow William F. Lee took stock of the 2010 governance reforms, …