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Harvard Horizons Spotlights Nine Scholars
Tuesday evening , nine Harvard Ph.D. students shared their research in short, TED-talk-style presentations at the Harvard Horizons annual symposium. Through this highly-selective program, the cohort spent 10 weeks learning how “to share their original, …
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Heading home James E. Ryan , who left the University of Virginia’s law school to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in September 2013, will return to Charlottesville as president of UVA, effective October 1. Ryan has had signal …
Issue: November-December 2017
At Home with Harvard: Election Day
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 previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, alumni …
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Silent Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Harvard Year Book Publications U.S. Senators seeking a paper trail of the career and views of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. ’76, J.D. ’79, won’t find much in his College class reports. The summa cum laude …
Issue: September-October 2005
Ben S. Bernanke ’75 Shares Economics Nobel
B en S. Bernanke ’75, former chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, today shared the Nobel Prize in economics with two other scholars of banking and financial crises. The honor—formally, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic …
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Arts and Sciences Leader Claudine Gay (above) became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on August 15, succeeding Michael D. Smith , who had completed 11 years of service. Gay, Cowett professor of government and of African and African American …
Issue: September-October 2018
Historical Record v. Trump
In May 1865 , Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, snuck out of his tent wrapped in his wife’s shawl—right into the hands of Union soldiers. During the prior month, Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered, and …
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Applied Tech 1 Harvard’s Office of Technology Development and Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have launched the Grid: a hub for funding, mentorship, and education intended to accelerate commercial development of faculty-led …
Issue: November-December 2022
Harvard Great Performances: Endicott Peabody ’42
If we lived in an ordinary time , this Saturday would have seen Game 3 of the 2020 Harvard football season, with ancient and honorable non-league rival Holy Cross visiting the Stadium. Last year in Worcester, the Crimson defeated the Crusaders …
How Paper Crumples
You probably crumple up paper without ever considering that such a routine act could be of scientific interest. But researchers at Harvard—including Loeb associate professor of engineering and applied sciences Christopher Rycroft and his doctoral student, …
Issue: July-August 2021
Maia Sandu at Kennedy School Class Day
The war in Ukraine loomed over the Class Day celebrations at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Wednesday afternoon, with a keynote address delivered by Maia Sandu, M.C./M.P.A. ’10 , president of the Republic of Moldova, a small nation that borders Ukraine …
Protesters Walk Out of Harvard Commencement
When Harvard announced that 13 students would not be allowed to graduate this spring due to their involvement in the pro-Palestine encampment, activists organized their own graduation. During the conferral of degrees Thursday morning, hundreds of …
At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music
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 previous selections, featuring articles about climate change, racial justice, movies and …
“Be Unlikely Inseparables”
“Class Day does not traditionally include a moment like this,” said senior program marshal Tarina Ahuja ’24 an hour into this year’s Class Day ceremony. “But we’re also not living in a typical moment.” After earlier speakers referenced the class of 2024’s …
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Mental Health Thank you for “ No Going Back to Normal ” and the compelling picture it provided of the very real crisis in youth mental health and the considerable detail it offered on the many thoughtful responses to the challenges it presents …
Issue: September-October 2022