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The 2013 Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
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 Screenwriter’s Toolbox
… lecturer on English. “It’s only impossible.” In other words, turning out a 120-page script—the standard … decided to add screenwriting to its creative-writing offerings, it tapped Rubin, who has written dozens of screenplays in the past two decades. Three have been …
Issue: July-August 2013
Allston Plans in the News
… The Boston Globe reported on December 12 ( link ) that … is rethinking earlier plans to move the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health to Allston as part of its campus-building …
Visitors, Not Viewers
… eyes before your ears or nose or fingertips make it inside. The first thing you notice in “Calm. Smoke rises vertically.”—Wendy Jacob’s exhibition at the Radcliffe … a pyramidal building which turns out to be the Tower of Babel. The objects look a bit clunky–roughly hewn, and …
Atul Gawande Harvard Alumni Day Speech
… I know why. Lately, I too have been hungry to connect with others in this community. Certainly, this is a chance to … this institution in a perilous time. Let me tell you some of what I have seen. I am a child of Indian immigrants who’d come for medical training, and I …
Speeding in the Lanes
… Last February, the powerhouse Harvard women’s swimming and diving squad … with suitable facilities; the host institution supplies the officials.) Princeton had won five consecutive times, … meet with an undefeated 10-0 record. Yet on the first day of competition, the Crimson dug itself a hole. Its 400-yard …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Candidates
… new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board will be chosen by … All Harvard degree holders, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, may vote for Overseer …
Issue: May-June 2006
How the Lines Get Bent
… Maps of coronavirus infections have for months filled the front pages of newspapers and media websites, becoming a crucial way to …
The “Upstander”
… Dean Martha L. Minow has two desks in her Harvard Law School office. The one she sits at is a rosewood partners’ desk, wide … have changed, too: the proportion of students of color has risen to 44 percent from 32 percent, and of women in the …
The Teen Brain
… Your teenage daughter gets top marks in school, captains the debate team, and volunteers at a shelter for homeless … who have been exploring the unique structure and chemistry of the adolescent brain. “The teenage brain is not just an … brain with fewer miles on it,” says Frances E. Jensen, a professor of neurology. “It’s a paradoxical time of …
Issue: September-October 2008
Lessons from the Navajo
… In 1968, Lucy Moore '66 accompanied her then-husband, Bob Hilgendorf, J.D. '67, to Chinle--Canyon de Chelly--in the heart of the Navajo Nation, in Arizona, hoping not only to do some … taught in elementary schools before being elected justice of the peace for her district. Lucy Moore, her son, and …
Issue: March-April 2005
Records of Harvard Heroes Wanted!
… The advocates for Harvard ROTC ( www.advocatesforrotc.org ) … memorialize too-long-forgotten Harvard veterans in the Hall of Heroes section of its website. Relatives, friends, and classmates are …
Issue: January-February 2010
Behind the Scenes: Digging into the archive
… When I started working on the September-October feature about Harvard Library’s … The University has such a vast and expanding universe of specialized archives and research units, and I knew there was a collection of materials covering Jewish life, art, literature, and …
The Hollowing Out
… T he “deplorables”— they are not the Other, they are ourselves. The best thing … and poor: not as voyeurs, but as neighbors. Nicholas Kristof ’82, a New York Times columnist whose parents were … behind the stories they told. Separate chapters cover the rise in incarceration, the origins of the opioid crisis, and …
Issue: May-June 2020