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Being on “The Bachelor”
… One evening in the fall of 2021, a Harvard graduate stepped out of a stretch limousine wearing nothing but a doctor’s coat, … organically in the environment.” One thing that did surprise her was how little time she had to get to know her …
Shielding the Goal
… position,” says Katie Shields ’06, who has tended goal for the Harvard women’s soccer team since her freshman year. “All summer [of 2005] I worked with goalkeepers at a soccer camp, and they are the craziest collection of athletes you can imagine. Basically, you’re putting your …
Issue: September-October 2005
Maria Ressa to Address Harvard Graduates
… Maria Ressa , who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 (with Russian journalist … Dmitry Muratov) for her brave, independent news coverage of her native Philippines, will be the honored guest speaker … our fears, anger, and hate, and setting the stage for the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world.” (As …
The Sweetest Season
… Harvard's 35-3 demolition of Yale at the Stadium on November 20 was the crowning moment in a football season of peak performances: a perfect 10-0 record; high-scoring …
Issue: January-February 2005
John Lithgow on the Arts, and Life
… John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, made some extended remarks on the arts, including personal reflections on his own … experiences with visual arts, at the first meeting of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences' Commission on Humanities and Social …
Xiao-Li Meng Appointed Dean of Harvard’s Graduate School
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith today announced that Jones professor of statistics Xiao-Li Meng , chair of the department of statistics since 2004, has been appointed …
"Two Radically Different Worlds"
… In his annual dean’s report , released for the year’s second Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on October 27, Michael D. … 2008 to $137.2 million last year; the cost is expected to rise some $10 million more this year.) A footnote partially …
Issue: January-February 2010
Rebelling and Expelling
… year to graduate: as a pandemic worsened, seniors left professors and friends behind and dealt with a graduation ceremony held online. At least they got degrees. Shortly before the graduation of the class of 1823, 43 of 70 students were expelled, a …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Fix in Fossil Fuels
… The United States is wasting more than $4 billion a year by … consumers or the economy, says Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and a …
Issue: January-February 2014
The President on the Podium
… his presidency, Neil L. Rudenstine spoke on many hundreds of occasions, from large, public gatherings, like Commencement afternoon addresses and … services for singular scholars and steadfast supporters of Harvard. His topics ranged from the opportunities for …
“Fallen to the Depths”
… Writer Nicholas Dawidoff ’85 is justly acclaimed for The Catcher Was a Spy , his biography of Moe Berg; The Fly Swatter ( about his grandfather, the …
Issue: September-October 2022
Be Willing to Fail, Faust Tells Class of 2015
… In a Freshman Convocation with a twist, the class of 2015 was welcomed by President Drew Faust, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, and others, and then …
Legal Legroom
… Way back in 1998, a committee of faculty and administrators at Harvard Law School (HLS) began work on strategic planning for the school’s future needs, a task linking prospective … parking facility, above which the new building will rise in three years’ time. The south corner of the proposed …
Issue: January-February 2007
26 Ways to Get into Harvard
… Quick trivia quiz. What do these names have in common: Bradstreet, Bacon, Dexter, … poet Anne Bradstreet; the Robert Bacon or Class of 1880 Gate, monumental and unused, just south of Lamont; … who would shape much of Harvard’s and the nation’s rise to international prominence in the next few decades. …
Issue: July-August 2016
A Pandemic Full of Heartbreaks
… During the past month and a half, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded … and other minorities, Evelynn Hammonds, Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and professor in African and …