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The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own elected directors. Balloting is open through May 16. Degree …
Issue: May-June 2023
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Undertreating Chronic Pain Kathleen Koman’s article about pain (“ The Science of Hurt ,” November-December 2005, page 46) brilliantly articulates the science surrounding the subject. The piece, however, does readers a profound disservice in its failure to …
Issue: January-February 2006
Football: Harvard 34, Georgetown 3
In gridiron lore, Notre Dame has the Four Horsemen. Fordham boasts the Seven Blocks of Granite. Now, Harvard has the Five Road Graders. From tackle to tackle on the offensive line, left to right they are: Adam Redmond ’16, Mic Mancinelli ’15, Nic Easton …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Colton Chapple ’13
Had the coronavirus not scrambled the Harvard gridiron season along with so much else in our lives, we would be embarking on Ivy League football in earnest, with the final five games of the 2020 campaign against rivals from the Ancient Eight. The first of …
“A Kind of Justice in the World”
The first thriller Ian K. Smith ’91 fell in love with was The Firm, John Grisham’s wildly popular 1991 novel about a young, ambitious lawyer entangled in a Memphis firm that turns out to be a money-laundering operation for organized crime. “My aunt was a …
Issue: September-October 2020
University People
Heading East Francis J. Doyle III , a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been appointed dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), effective August 1. Doyle, whose research has …
Issue: July-August 2015
U.S. Representative Blasts Harvard’s Discipline
On September 26 , U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued a press release in which she “denounced Harvard University for its refusal to hold those responsible for the …
New Graduate School Dean
Allan M. Brandt has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). A professor of the history of science in FAS, Brandt holds a joint appointment as Kass professor of the history of …
Staff Pick: Boston Book Festival
This year, instead of drawing 30,000 people for a wild weekend of in-person literary immersion, the annual Boston Book Festival will spread mostly online sessions over several weeks in October. Some 35 events are planned, including author readings and …
Issue: September-October 2020
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 …
You’ve Got Game
It’s no secret that Harvard alums are an athletic bunch, from Olympians to coaches to legendary sportswriter Roger Angell ’42, who died last month at 101. Whether you’re a pro, a hobbyist, or finally ready to get moving after two-plus years in a pandemic, …
Issue: July-August 2022
Racial Bias and Redistricting
Since late last year, legislators and independent commissions across the United States have been busy redrawing the contours of American democracy. The redistricting process occurs once every decade and is used to create new voting district boundaries …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard Students form Pro-Palestine Encampment
UPDATE: May 10, 12:15 P.M. This morning , Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) announced on Instagram that “Harvard has started sending out suspension notices” to students in the pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard. Involuntary leave prevents …
University People
Currier House Chiefs Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, and attorney Sylvia Barrett, A.L.B. ’95, have been appointed faculty deans of Currier House (the first leaders appointed to that post since the title was changed …
Issue: July-August 2016
Will Congress Fix the Testing Debacle?
As Congress raced to craft a coronavirus stimulus bill in the second week of December, the question foremost on epidemiologist Michael Mina’s mind was whether funding for accelerated production of rapid tests—$1 paper tests that can be used in the home to …