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Climate-Change Advocacy Intensifies
At its first meeting of 2020, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded an extensive debate about climate change by voting today in favor of an advisory motion calling upon the Corporation to direct Harvard Management Company (HMC) to shed certain …
Centennial Medalists
The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate studies. It is the …
Issue: July-August 2023
At Home with Harvard: Harvard on the Small Screen
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, the …
Extracurriculars
The diverse array of activities offered in and around Harvard Square this winter ranges from Turkish films, holiday concerts, and stargazing to exhibits on Sherlock Holmes and Peruvian pottery. SEASONAL • November 14, 7:30 p.m. Cambridge Society for Early …
Issue: November-December 2005
Brevia
Another Nobelist Thomas C. Schelling University of Maryland Joining Mallinckrodt professor of physics Roy J. Glauber ’45, Ph.D. ’49, and MIT chemist Richard R. Schrock, Ph.D. ’72, as Nobel honorands this year (see “ Premier Physicist ,” November-December …
Issue: January-February 2006
Boats and Coats
B y all means. Nathaniel Phillips Carleton ’51, Ph.D. ’56, a physicist-turned-astronomer who practiced his craft for many years at the Harvard-Smithson- ian Center for Astrophysics, died on February 25, at age 90. He had an early hand in arraying smaller …
Issue: May-June 2020
Micro-units: A New Trend?
The micro-unit trend (see “Living Large in Tiny Apartments,” from the May-June 2013 issue) may have originated in cramped cities like Tokyo and Paris, but it is now starting to develop in the United States. In November, the city of San Francisco unveiled …
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
A genetic analysis of African Americans who labored at a Revolutionary War-era forge for the first time connects ancient DNA to living people who have shared their data in a genealogical database. Researchers used techniques originally developed for …
Seven Harvard Affiliates Named HHMI Investigators
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced today that it had chosen 33 new investigators—including four from Harvard, and three more from the University’s affiliated hospitals, as well as five alumni. Each will receive approximately $9 million in …
Extracurriculars
A full slate of events can be found throughout the University this season, ranging from South African plays, Japanese calligraphy, and Viennese art to European films, ice skating, and college bands celebrating hockey's Beanpot. This sampler offers …
Issue: January-February 2005
New England’s Forest Primeval
What did the New England landscape look like before European colonizers arrived? The prevailing view among modern historians is that Native Americans engaged in widespread horticulture and used fire to keep grasslands and pasturelands open. Now a study by …
Insurgent Election
The most serene of American elections— the University’s annual balloting for members of the Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) directors —resulted in a robust demonstration of alumni voters’ animal spirits: the outcomes of the …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Ric Zimmerman ’68
In normal times , the Harvard football team and its hardy followers would be trekking up to Hanover, New Hampshire, this Saturday to face longtime Ivy rival Dartmouth. The Crimson leads the series, which began in 1882, 71-47-5, but the Big Green have won …
Hempton Named Divinity School Dean
President Drew Faust has announced that David N. Hempton , McDonald Family professor of Evangelical theological studies, will become the new dean of Harvard Divinity School, effective July 1. He succeeds William A. Graham, who announced in September that …
Hold the Fries
Limiting potato intake —especially in the form of French fries—is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to a new Harvard study that offers the most comprehensive findings to date on potatoes and T2D. The study, led by professor …