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Harvard College Admits 5.8 Percent of Applicants
… Harvard College announced Thursday that offers of admission to the class of 2017 had been sent to 2,029 students, 5.8 … attend if admitted, the “yield” on offers of admission has risen compared to prior years, and so the number of offers …
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
Linguistics: The Sound & the Fury
… The call to arms to save Harvard's linguistics department … a furor among linguists everywhere. Jeremy Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was bombarded with protesting letters. …
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 …
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
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 …
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
Edward Glaeser: Should We All Be Living in Cities?
… Cities are an integral part of Earth’s future: by 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be living in an urban area. … countries are more than one third urban. And we see the rise of mega cities like Karachi and Kinshasa in places that …
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 …
Off the Shelf
… $26). A New Yorker staff writer and Vassar associate professor travels back to his youth as a son of Taiwanese … Japanese American. Every detail of life in Berkeley then seems engraved in his memory and is recaptured … Child, to today’s biotech, digital, and emerging enterprises. Given MIT’s entrepreneurial DNA, and Harvard’s …
Issue: September-October 2022
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 Medical-Robotics Revolution
… surgeon could operate on a beating heart without opening the patient’s chest? Or a flexible robot could navigate the delicate branching of blood vessels, or bronchi in the lungs, and then stiffen … robot inside a person’s arteries? These kinds of innovations are already in the vanguard of the field of …
Issue: May-June 2022
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
The Sisters McDavitt
… Last fall, the Harvard field hockey squad was locked in a scoreless tie … the equipment and relax for a moment on the synthetic turf of Jordan Field. Photograph by Stu Rosner That was a … the second and third goals, respectively, in a 3-2 upset of eleventh-ranked Connecticut, Harvard's first victory over …
Issue: November-December 2003
A Queen's Seat
… Much is still unknown about the world of the ancient Egyptian elites, whose lives are fossilized in the riches of the ruins at Giza —and reflected by the luminous throne …
Issue: July-August 2016