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The Climate Connection between Campus and Home
… Often, when we think about the reach of the climate crisis on campus, we think about protests, …
Issue: May-June 2023
Off the Shelf
… A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, by Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies (Knopf, $32.50). How did mass …
Issue: January-February 2003
Academic Freedom—for All
… letter criticizing President Claudine Gay’s condemnation of the pro-Palestinian phrase “from the river to the sea” and … advisory committee, but to address the simultaneous rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment. “We all …
Off the Shelf
… Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff , by Rosemary Mahoney … Mahoney’s book is hard to put down both because of the stickiness of a woman rowing the Nile, alone, and because of the …
Issue: July-August 2007
Off the Shelf
… The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine , translated by Norman R. Shapiro ’51, Ph.D. ’58 (University of Illinois, $80 cloth, $25 paper). The Wesleyan professor—who commutes from Cambridge and …
Issue: January-February 2008
Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer Relocates to University of Chicago
… Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer ’85, Ph.D. ’92, who shared the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel with two colleagues from MIT for their work on economic development and alleviating global …
Basking in the Beaux-Arts
… Art, nature, lush gardens, American monuments —the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park, in Cornish, New Hampshire, offers a restorative retreat in times of change. Set on 190 acres, the park has long preserved the …
Issue: May-June 2025
The 2017 Harvard Medalists
… Three alumni received the Harvard Medal, for extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. They are: Henry N. Cobb Photograph by Jim Harrison Henry N. Cobb ’47, M.Arch. ’49, a former professor and chair of the architecture department at the …
Issue: July-August 2017
It’s Academic (and Other Harvard Concerns)
… A back-to-basics Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on March 4 focused on … students’ obligation to attend and pay attention to their classes, and slightly more rigorous grading options … committee does not expect a QRD course to comprise equally all three domains—it does have unique …
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tidies Up Pandemic and Single-Gender Policies
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) cleared up its remaining routine tasks during this most non-routine of years at its last regular meeting of the academic year on Tuesday afternoon. Many of the prior …
Harvard Square, the Novel
… to Cambridge, masters his studies, and succeeds—that’s the life story, at Twitter length, of André Aciman , Ph.D. ’88. An Egyptian Jew from a … and launched a doubly successful career: writer or editor of eight books of fiction, essays, and memoir, and …
Issue: July-August 2013
The 350th Leadership
… semisaecularia septima occasion,* but little was made of that, and all the traditional revelries and ceremonial benedictions … 1774 to 1780 Harvard suspended public Commencements because of revolutionary upheavals. Rounded up at Loeb House on June …
Wendel Meyer Appointed Acting Minister of Memorial Church
… its staff as associate minister for administration after the Reverend Peter J. Gomes suffered a heart attack and … 28 . Meyer "understands both the distinctive character of the Memorial Church and the rich diversity of Harvard’s larger religious profile," said President Drew …
The (Other) Yard
… When I first came to Harvard , the word "Radcliffe" evoked little more than confusion and … When friends and family spotted the name in the barrage of Harvard pamphlets and paraphernalia I received the summer … what Radcliffe was. Compounding my ignorance was a bit of defensiveness: I was attending Harvard and I could do …
From the Archives: Democracy’s Prospects
… Approaching the midterm elections, amid debate about the strains on … in authoritarian societies (Russia, the People’s Republic of China), we revisit a 1999 roundtable on the role for and … Vietnam? Darman: All true, but you referred earlier to the rise of a rather adversarial press, so we probably need more …