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The Undergraduate: Running Over Murphy's Law
… I would have said I hated running (too many bad memories of middle-school gym) and getting wet in the rain (nothing can tame my hair in the presence of … of depression and anxiety, I would not have been surprised to see a jump in patients this past winter: …
Issue: September-October 2015
Arts and Sciences’ New Look
… At its first faculty meeting of the year, on October 3, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … Grading: “Inflation” vs. Compression In something of a surprise, Rakesh Khurana, Harvard College dean, and Claybaugh …
Provost Steven Hyman to Step Down at End of Academic Year
… Steven E. Hyman, MD '80, a neurobiologist who has served as the University’s provost since 2001, announced today that he would relinquish the post effective at the end of the academic year. The provost position at Harvard was … under President Neil L. Rudenstine in 1992; Hyman’s decade of service makes him the longevity champion, and gave him …
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs host lectures, seminars, and social gatherings. Following is a partial list of Harvard-affiliated speakers appearing at local club … languages and cultures, for a discussion of "The Rise of Anti-Western Movements in the Islamic World." …
Issue: March-April 2005
Foreseeing Self-Harm
… Psychology professor Matthew Nock has spent his career studying self-harm, but he … people kill themselves. Suicide is the tenth highest cause of death in the United States, and the rate remained roughly …
Issue: March-April 2017
Cast Your Vote
… choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. The official candidates’ names appear in ballot order below, as … and communications, IBM Centennial, International Business Machines Corporation. Sanford Sacks, M.B.A. ’66, Scarsdale, …
Issue: May-June 2009
The “Harvard Novel” Enters the Twenty-first Century
… in films, in television shows, and in a great deal of contemporary literature. Hollywood filmmakers and … from James Bridges to Zadie Smith, have returned to the same storied Cambridge sites: the Widener steps, the … Gate, Memorial Hall, Harvard Yard. The substantial corpus of Harvard-themed literature is the subject of my …
Issue: January-February 2023
Off the Shelf
… possible? Should America help bring it about? Yes, says the author, a professor at the New York University School of Law with a D.Phil from Oxford in Islamic thought. (See " …
Issue: July-August 2003
Approaching the Arts Anew
… Harvard president Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a University-wide arts initiative. A faculty task force … involving several Harvard schools will explore the role of creativity, performance, and artistic practice; …
Issue: January-February 2008
"Boston Globe" Cites Elizabeth Warren as Bostonian of the Year
… Citing her role as chair of the congressional oversight panel that monitors the Troubled … institutions--the Boston Globe Magazine named Gottlieb professor of law Elizabeth Warren the Bostonian of the Year . …
Strings, Sax, and a Dash of Sass
… Aiming to “mix up genres and provoke the audience,” says A Far Cry violinist Alex Fortes ’07, the … “inspiring and enlivening an audience through performance of classical music—broadly defined.” The group has released … Museum … 1505 … 1538 … 8468 … Strings, Sax, and a Dash of Sass … article …
Issue: September-October 2014
The Taliban and Trauma
… ’97, a board-certified psychiatrist and host and founder of Safe Space Radio, was sitting in her home in Portland, Maine, when she heard the “ping” of an incoming Facebook message. She clicked. It was an old …
And the Winners Are...
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and the new …
Issue: July-August 2009
Jeffrey S. Flier named dean of Harvard Medical School
… Drew Gilpin Faust has named Jeffrey S. Flier, a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty since 1978, the new dean of the school, effective September 1. A specialist in …
Teaching the Harvard Slavery Report
… to slavery in a detailed 134-page report , a small group of faculty members and teaching staff gathered on campus late last week for a two-day seminar on how … findings into their own curricula. “Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery: From the Committee Report to the Classroom” was …