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Behind the Scenes: Keeping up with COVID-19
… The challenge of writing about the continuing pandemic , as the virologist Dan Barouch … weeks before anyone would read it—addressing this problem of timeliness was a prime concern. I’ve been incredibly …
At the Forefront
… Pass Addelson and Philip Keene Photograph by Jane Reed The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, who … meeting, were 101-year-old Philip Keene '25, S.M. '40, of Middletown, Connecticut, who was making his third …
Issue: July-August 2004
Karen Dynan on the Coronavirus Recession
… As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly escalates across the world, the United States economy has entered one of its most dramatic crises on record. In little more than a month, the Dow Jones …
Renewing the News
… W alter Cronkite stepped to the podium before a respectful audience at Harvard one November evening in 1990. An avuncular legend of broadcast journalism, celebrated as “the most trusted man … across the country who felt unheard,” he said. “It surprised us all.” That led to a new realization: If the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita, 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Oration—“Free and Brave”: Defending Universities and the Rule of Truth
… and grateful for this opportunity to speak after 11 years of silence at these Literary Exercises—sitting where President Garber is … restrained the price. But we must also recognize that this rise in price and rise in debt are in part the result of a …
The Elephant in the Cutting Room
… “Never write from an animal’s perspective,” admonished the fiction-writing manual that Tania James ’03 read while … workshop. At that moment, she realized the magnitude of the risk she had taken in her then recently completed … of a very broad system.” She mentions her initial surprise at learning that the United States is the world’s …
Issue: January-February 2016
Off the Shelf
… '83, Nf '99 (Public Affairs, $23). "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love … so!" said General George S. Patton. Hedges has seen plenty of violent death as a New York Times war correspondent (see …
Issue: November-December 2002
The 2020 Harvard Medalists
… The Harvard Alumni Association today recognized three … University. (The actual medal presentation, typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on Commencement Day, has been deferred to a later date.) Senior College admissions officer David L. Evans retires this summer, following more …
The Oldest Graduate
… At the age of 104, Dorothy Summers Green ’17 of Lexington, Massachusetts, is the oldest living graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe …
The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes
… Poet Carl Phillips ’81 won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 , a collection … that the prize committee called a “masterful” chronicle of American culture “as the country struggles to make sense of its politics, of life in the wake of a pandemic, and of …
“Go Guard the Galaxy”
… was keynote speaker at today’s 2023 Class Day ceremony for the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He shared with graduates what he … the aftermath. Gupta’s work has taken him to the frontlines of Flint, Michigan’s, water crisis, the Gulf of Mexico’s oil …
The Students' "Splendid Misery"
… Students at Harvard Law School have always complained about their splendid misery, citing the cutthroat competition, overcrowded classes, and aloof faculty. But last year Dean Robert Clark decided to do … study, completed last summer, finds—to nobody’s surprise—that classes are too big and professors too …
Joseph S. Nye: How Do Past Presidents Rank in Foreign Policy?
… do presidents incorporate morality into decisions involving the national interest? Moral considerations explain why Truman, who authorized the use of nuclear weapons in Japan during World War II, later … And in the effort to do so, we helped to stimulate the rise of basically the terrorist movements in the region, …
Eye on the Cosmos
… In 1895, Harvard deployed the most powerful photographic telescope in the world to a … placement in the cosmos, and ultimately, the expansion rate of the universe. The Bruce telescope owes its name, fame, … in 1908 published her observation that the peak brightness of certain pulsing stars called Cepheids was related to the …
Issue: November-December 2017
Hot Off the Press!
… The University has printed 11,000 new alumni directories, most of which were scheduled to be shipped in mid August. The … with shipping included. To order, call the Alumni Records Office at 617-495-2371. … The University has printed …
Issue: September-October 2005