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News from the HAA
… Congratulations The HAA clubs committee recognizes publicly those who … exemplary service to a Harvard club. This year's winners of the Outstanding Club Contribution Awards were announced … Conference held on October 26. Donald Christopher '74, of Orlando. He is chairman of the Schools and Scholarships …
Issue: January-February 2002
Two Women, Two Histories
… As the second world war drew to a close, two women thought … Law School. The first was an African-American native of North Carolina, the granddaughter of a slave and the … ’45, who some say is more responsible than anyone for the rise of grassroots religious conservatism and the …
Issue: November-December 2007
The Anti-thesis
… had difficulty with conclusions. Writing a 101-page senior thesis may have only made my problem worse. I should have … Eliot House resident tutor Amie von Briesen '95, L '01, offered over dinner one night. "Whatever you do, don't wait … couldn't make it through inter-House transfers and thesis crises. As both professional partners and peers, our best and …
Lessons from an Unexpected Life
… that his blood was watery. I thought he might die in front of me. He has thalassemia, a severe anemia arising from the inheritance of two defective hemoglobin-production … To do so, they used highly complex and nearly unavailable machines that measure iron in the liver. The results were …
Issue: July-August 2009
The B.A. Diploma from A to Z
… The first Harvard diploma in English instead of Latin appeared in 1961. When word of the abandonment of Latin came through in April, it …
Where the Women Aren’t
… Women now hold nearly 23 percent of the tenured professorships in the Faculty of Arts and … the faculty’s total ranks, including junior professors, has risen far more slowly, from 18 percent in 1993-1994 to 25 …
Issue: September-October 2013
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 …
General Education under the Microscope
… General education —the flagship program in the College’s curriculum, consisting of courses from eight categories designed to assure that … did it come from?—and the ethical problems inherent in the rise of Western power. My driving motivation was to devise a …
Portrait of Peter Gomes Hung in Faculty Room
… The portraits hung on the walls of the Faculty Room in … the four canonical gospels, and that some of them were surprised and even unsettled that the accounts differed in …
The Interim Agenda
… until a permanent successor to Lawrence H. Summers takes office. In late March, shortly before his second visit to … with Harvard Magazine . • On possible disarray within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) or other parts of the … be a lot shorter than last time. I will be mightily surprised if I am still in Massachusetts Hall past June of …
Issue: May-June 2006
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 …
The Choice to Bear Children
… When patients begin lining up before dawn and doctors’ office hours stretch into the evening, “There are so many other important … Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, where about 40 percent of residents have HIV. Matthews first started thinking about …
Fixing Every Muscle
… The article “Mother Courage: A family tragedy and a … by John Colapinto, in the December 20, 2010, issue of the New Yorker ( www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/ … Patricia Furlong’s efforts to raise public awareness of muscular dystrophy, and funding for research, and covers …
Issue: March-April 2011
Love in the Last Act
… it. What about you? Lil: Fabulous. For five years, all the things we did. Could. Hope to do. Elinor: Uh-huh. What … disease for eight years and was fast moving from a state of “confusion to delirium.” Their strange dialogues, Fuchs … where other people might be appalled,” says Fuchs, a professor at the Yale School of Drama “Now, I am not saying …
Issue: May-June 2006
Academic Access, Education Reform
… Ava Clayton Spencer, who concluded 15 years of Harvard service as vice president for policy on June 30, was inaugurated as the eighth president of Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, … unites excellence and opportunity at the heart of the enterprise, allowing talented students regardless of background or …