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FAS: Faculty and Fisc
… At a November 8 reception in University Hall, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) celebrated Michael D. … the fiscal 2018 results: the endowment distribution will rise this year, but current-use giving might fall. Strong …
Issue: January-February 2019
Changed by the Court
… Few Supreme Court justices, after their appointments, have drastically changed their fundamental views of law and life. Most justices, after all, have been … Court at a time in their careers when their basic patterns of belief have already become more or less settled. For this …
Issue: July-August 2005
The Take-on Artist
… Whether or not her kick in the womb was especially strong, forward Joey Yenne '03 of the women's soccer team showed competitive fire very … like doing something competitive," she says. Quelle surprise. ~Craig Lambert … Soccer star joey Yenne eats up …
Issue: November-December 2001
Before the Cocktail Napkin
… “The sketch on a cocktail napkin has become a modern-day … writes Cammy Brothers ’91, Ph.D. ’99, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Virginia. The architect …
Issue: January-February 2009
Off the Shelf
… The Crucible of Islam , by G.W. Bowersock ’57 (Harvard, $25). The staggeringly learned professor emeritus of ancient history at the Institute for …
Issue: May-June 2017
Yellow Wolf's Silence: The Untold Nez Perce War Story
… For the first 50 years of his life, Yellow Wolf preferred … Joseph drew large crowds for speeches about the injustice of his people’s plight, Yellow Wolf said nothing of his … Canadian border. But Yellow Wolf caught McWhorter by surprise. For one thing, his story gave the lie to official …
Issue: May-June 2017
Up Next: The Harvard Center for Gastrophysics?
… anything to get oohs and ahhs from his audience. During the world-renowned Catalan chef's speech in a Harvard lecture hall last week, videos of his playful, experimental cooking techniques sufficed. … the boundary between solid and liquid. His efforts to surprise his customers include the spherical olive (a ball of …
Saluting the 2020 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 …
The Federal Funds Rate...
… Graduating senior William Bailey delivers his Ivy Oration, “The Federal Funds Rate and the Channels of Monetary Transmission,” at Class Day 2008. Watch the live … his Ivy Oration, “The Federal Funds Rate and the Channels of Monetary Transmission,” at Class Day 2008... … The …
Saluting the 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 …
Katherine O’Dair to Replace Stephen Lassonde as Dean of Students
… Katherine O’Dair , a former administrator at Boston College and MIT, has been named dean of students effective August 15, College dean Rakesh Khurana … announced in an email today. She will succeed former dean of student life Stephen Lassonde, who stepped down from the …
Encounters at the Border
… The first time photographer Morgan Smith ’60 crossed into … a taxi driver, “a really nice guy,” he says, “who kind of took me on a tour.” A retired lawyer and former Special … Later, he showed Smith the spot where the city’s chief of police had been ambushed and killed. “And I felt like …
Comings and Goings
… University clubs offer a variety of stimulating gatherings. Here is a list of Harvard-affiliated speakers … languages and cultures, on March 18 for a talk about “The Rise of the Anti-Western movement in the Islamic World.” On …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Calendar, Changed
… academic calendar will more closely resemble those of other institutions—starting just after Labor Day and ending … and bring the year to a close at Commencement by the end of May. Schools such as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences …
Issue: September-October 2007
Poetry, Voiced
… In 1928, Frederick Clifton Packard Jr. ’20, head of Harvard’s public-speaking department, improvised a cutting-edge audio-recording studio in one of the Yard’s oldest buildings, installing a telegraphone in … association with voice is as old as the art itself, the rise of radio in the 1920s dramatically reconfigured that …
Issue: July-August 2017