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The Food Waste Problem
For one of the world’s leading experts on food waste, visiting a grocery store can be frustrating. Stepping into her local Whole Foods, clinical professor of law Emily Broad Leib notices something awry in the store’s first produce display. The unbagged …
Issue: November-December 2021
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2005-2006 academic year. Physics concentrator Rebecca Walsh Dell, of Piedmont, California, and Mather House, will be the Lieutenant Charles H. Fiske III …
Issue: July-August 2005
Free Speech on Campus
On Tuesday evening , one week after the Congressional hearing that prompted demands for President Claudine Gay’s dismissal and less than 12 hours after Harvard Corporation members released a statement confirming their support for her continued leadership, …
History-Making Harvard Skier Pushes His Limits
Everyone has jitters in the moments before a mass-start cross-country ski race, and for good reason. When the gun goes off, dozens of competitors, with just a few feet of space between them, simultaneously accelerate—kicking and gliding forcefully as they …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard Goes South (of the Border)
Harvard Goes South (of the Border) Mark your calendars for the Harvard Alumni Association's alumni conference in Mexico City on March 1-2, 2005. The event, to include a reception and lunch with University president Lawrence H. Summers, follows the …
Issue: November-December 2004
Harvard Medalists
Avarita L. Hanson Avarita L. Hanson ’75 in 1975 founded what’s now known as the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), and has served as treasurer of the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975, president of the Harvard Club of Georgia, Harvard Alumni …
Issue: July-August 2022
Online Takes Off
The pandemic’s effects on classroom teaching were immediate and binary: given the dangers of viral transmission, courses last March were hurriedly adapted to Zoom, and, last fall, more refined versions of online pedagogy appeared (see “School Goes …
Issue: March-April 2021
Harvard Medalists
Recipients of the 2024 Harvard Medal were honored in person during Harvard Alumni Day on May 31. Scott A. Abell ’72, a University alumni leader for more than 30 years, served as president of the Board of Overseers (and member from 2012 to 2018), …
Issue: July-August 2024
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
The Year That Was
T-shirt Spirit To build, and bolster, spirit among the pandemic-dispersed members of the College class of 2024—many deferred enrolling; those who matriculated took their classes remotely, whether from socially distanced single bedrooms in Cambridge or …
Issue: July-August 2021
At Home with Harvard: Extraordinary Lives
This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, …
Harvard’s NBA Champion
For a couple of years now, the Harvard men’s basketball team and Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokić have carried on a playful social-media exchange, ever since he kidded in a 2021 pregame radio show that he’d attended the College. (In fact, the …
An Academic Agenda
Over a coffee in Harvard Square on a damp August morning—the lull before what he feared might be another stormy academic year—a senior administrator outlined three priorities for restoring the University’s moorings. First came refocusing on the academic …
Issue: November-December 2024
Proactive AI Policy
Artificial intelligence is developing faster than policymakers can keep up, and the gap in understanding between government and industry could pose challenges for effective regulation. But that doesn’t mean corporations should develop and deploy AI as …
Faculty Member Remarks at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Meeting, March 15, 2005
William C. Kirby, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences I'd like to say a few words about governance before we begin today's discussion. We meet for the third time in five weeks, and I must tell you, and not for the first time, that it is …