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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
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 …
Tracing the Enslaved to Modern Descendants
… A genetic analysis of African Americans who labored at a Revolutionary War-era forge for the first time connects ancient DNA to living people who … originally developed for analyzing DNA that is tens of thousands of years old to develop genetic profiles of 27 …
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 …
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
University of Texas Joins Harvard, MIT in edX Online Learning Venture
… The University of Texas (UT) System today announced its affiliation with edX, the nonprofit Harvard-MIT online learning venture launched last May . … new edX affiliation comes as other online-education enterprises race to sign partnership agreements with multiple …
The Blue Garden
… In the Gilded Age, Newport, Rhode Island, became the summer playground of the American upper class. Vanderbilts and Astors built … the others in magnificence. Yet, flying in the face of this craze, Arthur Curtiss James, whose riches derived …
Issue: July-August 2022
Hertzberg on the Record
… The following is an extended sampling of writing by Hendrik … liberal political essayist in America. The magazine's "Talk of the Town" section characteristically opens with a …
Issue: January-February 2003
“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 …
Admissions after Affirmative Action
… Nationwide , members of the class of 2028 are now engaged in their coursework, like … reviews, white and Asian American enrollments would rise as a share of the student body. But Yale has been …
HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs
… The honors, awarded at the Harvard Alumni Association’s … to “create a strong, connected, collaborative community of Harvard University alumni who are practitioners, … and troubleshooting—all of which has yielded a significant rise in club membership and in revenue. Club events include …
Issue: March-April 2018
Network for the Next Generation
… The surveillance area of Harvard's network operations center (NOC) bears a fleeting resemblance to the helm of a starship. The large screen at center displays a …