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Bailey Named Director of BGLTQ Student Life
… Vanidy M. Bailey will serve as director of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Queer (BGLTQ) student life beginning July 16, dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds announced this week. Bailey, who will report to the assistant dean of student life, will oversee all …
The Corporation’s 360-Year Tune-Up
… The Harvard Corporation’s self-review of its operations and … through the new joint committee, which will comprise Fellows, Overseers, and “selected others.” • Strategic …
Issue: January-February 2011
This is How Universities Die
… Berlin . In 1910, German universities were the envy of the world. They were the world’s center of scientific research, not only in the natural sciences but …
Harvard Education Dean Named University of Virginia President
… The University of Virginia announced this morning that James E. Ryan, who has been dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education since September 1, … opportunity in important ways , came to Harvard from the University of Virginia’s law school. At Harvard, Ryan …
Factor That Reverses Aging of Heart Discovered
… Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell institute have discovered a substance in the blood of young mice that reverses a major effect of aging in the hearts of old mice. The substance, called …
The Devil and Philip Johnson
… Philip Johnson ’ 27 (’30), B.Arch.’43—the celebrated architect of the former Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan’s Seagram … “I am a whore, and I am paid very well for building high-rise buildings.” Groundbreaking for the Trump International …
Issue: November-December 2018
What’s Worth Fighting For: Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates Speaks at Harvard Law School
… during her Class Day speech—even, as her former chief of staff joked, a time for “long, boozy lunches.” Yates had … incoming team, as per tradition, that she would stay at the Department of Justice and “things would stay as they … Flynn scandal, and looks at her childhood, along with her rise from private-practice attorney to deputy attorney …
Invigorating the Humanities
… arts and humanities curriculum debut this fall. “The Art of Listening,” “The Art of Reading,” and “The Art of Looking” are “predisciplinary” …
Issue: September-October 2013
Photos in Thread
… From a distance, they look like framed four-by-six-inch color photographs of landscapes and still-life subjects—salt marshes, … and fabric art. Behar begins each piece by printing one of her own photographs on cotton broadcloth. Then, with …
Issue: November-December 2008
Herbie Hancock Is Harvard’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry
… jazz musician and composer Herbie Hancock will be the University’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, giving six lectures this spring on topics that …
Cambridge 02138
… Crime and Incarceration The article about Elizabeth Hinton ( “Color and … walked into numerous prisons in California, which has one of the world’s largest prison systems. Each time I step into … (and advertising revenues) underpin this nonprofit enterprise; the remaining operating deficit is funded by a …
Issue: November-December 2019
The Brain As Art
… in France—Carl Schoonover ’06 cuts a stylish figure in the lab at Columbia’s doctoral program in neuroscience. But … on inside the head than what grows on top. The convergence of the aesthetically beautiful and the scientifically compelling forms the heart of Schoonover’s Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain …
Issue: July-August 2011
Life at the Epicenter
… innovation butts up against cultural ethos. As a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison law and medical schools, …
Issue: July-August 2005
A Look in the Mirror
… On December 12, the Harvard Corporation declared its unanimous support for … pointing to changes in some citations but rejecting claims of research misconduct. The University’s five living former … days later, on January 2, Gay resigned. (A summary of the news appears in “A Presidency’s End,” at page 14 in …
Issue: March-April 2024
Karl May
… The most popular German author most Americans have never heard of is Karl May, whose adventure novels have sold more than … novels with allegorical speculations about humanity’s rise from evil to good. In the spring of 1912, shortly …
Issue: March-April 2020