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The Senior Marshals
… The senior marshals , looking ahead to Commencement 2005, … (clockwise from top left) first marshal Caleb Franklin, of Leverett House and Los Angeles; Sheria Smith, of Winthrop House and Gary, Indiana; Duncan Graham Wells, of …
Issue: May-June 2005
Off the Record
… Last October, Leo Beranek, S.D. '40, AMP '65, received the National Medal of Science for engineering from President George W. Bush. In … research project under government contract — one of Harvard's scientific contributions to the Allied military …
Issue: March-April 2004
Fiction from Fairy Tales
… by New Directions this February, and that is no surprise: her cult novella Mrs. Caliban (1982) attracted renewed … scaly green frog-man—drew parallels to Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water , winner of four Academy Awards that year, …
Issue: March-April 2019
The Corporation Reports
… Two years after the Harvard Corporation enacted sweeping governance reforms … Nannerl O. Keohane, LL.D. ’93, and William F. Lee ’72 offered a briefing on how its work has changed. The reforms … expertise and internal committees providing deeper coverage of critical matters. Reischauer said each committee had …
Issue: March-April 2013
College Admits 14.5 Percent of Early Action Applicants
… The College admitted 14.5 percent of early-action applicants … 14.8 percent last year, the University announced today. Of the 6,473 students who applied through the program, 938 …
News in Brief
… M. Garber —named interim president on January 2, 2024, and the University’s thirty-first president (through June 30, … 7. The event was attended by friends, family, members of the governing boards, deans and other University leaders, … 2024, page 20). Building Boom Even as the private enterprise research campus and the University theater and housing …
Issue: March-April 2025
The Financial Fallout…So Far
… Harvard’s adjustment to the coronavirus pandemic, from declining executive-education … enrollment last winter to the depopulating of campus and shift to online instruction in mid March, began to show up in the University and Faculty of Arts Sciences (FAS) annual financial reports for the …
Issue: January-February 2021
Administrators Remove Last Remnants of Occupy Harvard
… Occupy Harvard’s geodesic dome and information tent, the last remaining physical structures of the protest movement that began on November 9 and … , have been removed from the Yard by administration officials. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Jeff …
Joanne Chang’s Sticky Buns
… Joanne Chang , owner and head pastry chef of Flour Bakery + Café, is the subject of the article " Sweet Science ," in this … place buns, evenly spaced, in the pan. Cover and allow to rise for 2 to 3 hours in a warm place. Preheat oven to 350 …
Issue: March-April 2008
Jill Abramson ’76 Named Executive Editor of New York Times
… Jill Abramson '76 has been named executive editor of the New York Times , the newspaper announced today—the first … editorial post. She has been managing editor since 2003—one of two executives responsible for overseeing the newsroom. …
The Senior Marshals
… The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester, Massachusetts; Shira Sivan Simon of Leverett House and West Des Moines, Iowa; John Paul M. …
Issue: May-June 2004
A Wide Receiver on the Basketball Court
… player, sometimes jokes with teammates that even on the basketball court, he’s “an NFL-level wide receiver.” … snagged the ball with his left hand and, while falling out of bounds, whipped a pass to co-captain Sam Silverstein ’24. … a receiver on the football team, which led to scholarship offers in both sports. The basketball opportunities proved …
Crypto—To Regulate or Not?
… The future of cryptocurrency in the United States remains a subject of intense debate. Finance professor Marco Di Maggio , who … manipulation. The crypto industry has experienced major crises, such as Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX scam in 2022, in …
Fishing the Charles
… Like most children who grew up in the Virginia countryside, I spent an inordinate portion of my youth fishing. And having been conditioned to regard … all the time, pulling carp and catfish from the confluence of the Charles River’s muddy waters. And we’d heard of a …
Reforesting the Yard
… Savaged by insects , ravaged by disease and old age, the elms of Harvard Yard were much diminished by 1990 (see … of Design. Swamp white oaks, “the biggest delightful surprise,” he says, have thrived in the Yard’s heavy soils and …
Issue: November-December 2005