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The Senior Alumni
… Evelyn Richmond ’41, of Nashville, Tennessee, and Arsen Charles ’42, of Westwood, Massachusetts, were the oldest Radcliffe and Harvard alumni present on …
Issue: July-August 2019
Crimson in Congress
… fashion on November 4 when Senator Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, of Illinois, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review (see " … M.B.A. ’66, J.D. ’69, of Idaho. (The Democrats’ total will rise by one if Al Franken ’73, of Minnesota, wins his race …
Issue: January-February 2009
Building RoboBees: How Harvard Engineers Are Revolutionizing Micro-Robotics
… One day nearly a decade ago, Gu-Yeon Wei was walking the corridors of Harvard’s newly established School of Engineering and … a page in a children’s pop-up book. Manufacturing complex machines with tiny, integrated piezoelectric motors in this …
Issue: November-December 2017
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 …
The Baby Business
… sperm (in high supply) is a bargain at $250 to $400 a vial, the price of eggs (harder to come by) is $3,000 to $8,000 per cycle, … sperm injection into the ovum) or up to $14,000 for a cycle of IVF (in vitro fertilization). Need to rent a womb? …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard and the Valley
… The first person to congratulate me on getting into Harvard … on the link in my acceptance email to find a picture of him looking back at me with his characteristic blank … too thrilled to pay much attention, but later the choice of spokesperson felt strange to me. “Didn’t he drop out?” I …
Issue: March-April 2018
Room for the Arts?
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Facing the loss of the Rieman dance center to the Radcliffe … the Quadrangle Recreational Athletics Center. Dance is one of many undergraduate arts programs clamoring for space as …
Issue: November-December 2003
The Long Game
… Brian Ma ’23 [’24], who this year recorded the lowest scoring average of any Ivy League golfer—and the best in Harvard’s … who was coached extensively by his father from the age of two, Ma’s parents were not fans of the game. When his …
Issue: July-August 2022
Enlarging the Field
… arriving at Harvard in 2009, Damrosch has attempted to open the conversation on world literature—and with it, the discipline of comparative literature—through a collaborative … in July. The four-week program assembles a core faculty of literary scholars and some 150 fellow scholars and …
Issue: September-October 2019
Corporation Member in the Hot Seat
… Where Was the Wise Man? , from last Sunday's New York Times , examines the background and current status of Harvard Corporation member Robert E. Rubin ’60, LL.D. ’01, chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup. In a two-hour …
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
Tackle the Big Issues
… Since it appears we are in a period of seismic change, Harvard should take a hard look at its … underpinnings. Harvard’s greatest opportunity over the next quarter-century will be to bring together its separate areas of expertise to focus on a select group of “big” issues. It …
Issue: September-October 2011
Passages: Julius Richmond, Founding Director of Head Start
… Julius B. Richmond , MacArthur professor of health policy emeritus and a revered figure among … 1981 until his retirement, serving as surgeon general of the United States under President Carter in the interim. In …
President Faust: "We Will Find Ways to Advance"
… this afternoon delivered what was billed as an "opening-of-year" address in Sanders Theatre, in lieu of the e-mail messages sent in prior years: … declined in fiscal year 2009; that current-use giving had risen, but that gift income overall, as reported, had …
“Jump In, the Water’s Great!”
… Underneath the tent in Greenleaf Yard last Friday, Radcliffe alumnae, family, and friends huddled together (in spite of a persistent drizzle) to try to answer a question that … (Dionne himself acknowledging, multiple times, how surprised he was to find himself agreeing with Goldberg’s …