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From the Basket to the Beach
In June , Christine Mansour ’15 stepped onto the sand for Team USA at the beach handball world championships in Greece and noticed Denmark was implementing a punishing full-court press. Recalling her time on the women’s basketball team, Mansour made a …
Commencement Confetti
Lattes in the Library? Lamont Library has a full café. The renovated Harvard Art Museums’ central court can now be rented for catered events (no red wine, no food in the galleries). But the chief marshal’s luncheon in Widener’s reading room? Nominally, …
Issue: July-August 2015
College Admits 14.5 Percent of Early-Action Applicants
THE COLLEGE has admitted 14.5 percent of early-action applicants to the class of 2022, the same percentage as last year , the admissions office announced today. Of the 6,630 students who applied through the program, 964 were admitted. The admissions …
Most Harvard Staff Will Be Remote through June 30
Most of Harvard’s faculty and staff members will continue working remotely through June 30, 2021, executive vice president Katie Lapp announced in an email to University employees today. While Harvard has successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 on …
Five Harvardians win MacArthur Fellowships
Historian and writer Imani Perry is among five Harvardians named among the 2023 MacArthur fellows , announced today. The fellowship recognizes individuals across disciplines who have “shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative …
Developing the Brain-Computer Interface
Growing up in New York City, Benjamin Rapoport, A.B.-A.M. ’03, M.D. ’08 (’13), often tagged along on weekend hospital rounds with his neurologist father. Samuel Rapoport was also an electrical engineer and a pioneering electrophysiology specialist who …
Issue: January-February 2025
Focusing on the Ph.D.
During her tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), from mid 2005 through last December, Theda Skocpol says, “I got a Ph.D. in what it means to be a university administrator in two and a half years.” Recognizing that the …
Issue: March-April 2008
Martha Tedeschi to Lead Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums has named Martha Tedeschi its new Cabot director, effective July 2016. She succeeds Thomas W. Lentz, Ph.D. ’85, who left last July. Tedeschi has spent her entire professional career at the Art Institute of Chicago, arriving as an …
Campus, Interrupted
A New Harvard Experience by Rebecca E.J. Cadenhead Like many first-years, I arrived at college ready to be molded. Correspondingly, it seemed as though the University was ready to subsume me; by catering to almost every need it ensured that I stayed …
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Issue: November-December 2021
Can Financial Crises Be Predicted?
In his memoir of the 2008 financial crisis, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner wrote that such crises are like “earthquakes”—they “cannot be reliably predicted, so they cannot be reliably prevented.” Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben …
Issue: January-February 2021
News in Brief
Decanal Duo… A professor returning to Harvard and one in continuing service have been appointed to lead Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS, part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, FAS). President …
Issue: November-December 2023
Bodies in Motion
Grooving , diving, dancing, and flipping, the bodies caught in gravity-defying motion in New Formations feel breathtakingly alive. The show, at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park through March 13, reflects on the aesthetic nature of physicality …
Issue: January-February 2023
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Public History, Locally Kudos to Drew Faust for her reflections on Clint Smith’s excellent new book, How The Word Is Passed (“ Getting Close to the Past ,” November-December 2021, page 57). Smith illustrates so clearly the vital importance of public …
Issue: January-February 2022
Boosting Teacher Training
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) —renowned for research spanning early-childhood learning and college accessibility, and for training education leaders and policymakers—is making major progress on its redesigned program to equip teachers for …
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The Humanities… While I totally agree with James Engell’s conclusions in “ Humanists All ” (January-February, page 34), the institution that he is writing from is the only platform in the United States that can effect such change. He should be directing …
Issue: March-April 2023