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The SIGnboard: SIG Snapshot
… One of the of Harvard Alumni Association’s newest Shared Interest … Reunion Weekend Event on May 31, including a member of the fiftieth-reunion class. Founded last July, the group …
Issue: July-August 2014
A Conservative Counterrevolution
… When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the American states … fell precipitously. Yet despite the depression, most of the 13 states hiked taxes to pay down their war debts and cover their share of the nation’s—and the new taxes were much higher than …
Issue: January-February 2017
Presiding during the Pandemic
… During a conversation on December 16, just as the first half of academic year 2021-2022 concluded, … new home for the American Repertory Theater and the enterprise research campus, and in turn commercial development …
Issue: March-April 2022
“The World Is Waiting”
… The $750 -million capital campaign for Harvard Medical School (HMS) kicked off with a gala dinner at the Boston Park Plaza hotel on … working down in Washington, at NIH [the National Institutes of Health].” The researcher’s group was baffled because …
“The Luckiest Books”
… In an era of omnipresent digital media (and distractions), Leah Price ’91, RI ’07, is an anti-alarmist about the future of reading and of tangible books. The former Higginson …
Issue: November-December 2019
Ensnared
… morning in February 2012…Marcella Wagner was driving down the interstate toward Chico State University, where she had … program…when suddenly another driver swerved in front of her. To avoid a collision, she jerked the wheel hard, and … a lifetime of personal-care assistance, should the need arise; everyone else will end up impoverished, reliant on …
Issue: September-October 2014
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 …
Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet
… Hu and Kentucky Fried Chicken arrived in Beijing around the same time. Hu, a recent graduate of Tongji Medical University, in Wuhan, had never seen a … less than 1 percent of the population. In 2001, that had risen to 5.5 percent. Now, with an estimated 116 million …
Issue: March-April 2020
The Road Ahead
… Six months ago, the view from Mass Hall—or, as it happened, from my home office—was almost completely obstructed by COVID-19, an … public health crisis that continues to keep most of us in masks, on edge, and up at night, to say nothing of …
Issue: September-October 2020
Faculty Honors, and a Farewell
… During their last regular meeting of the academic year, on May 2, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) bid farewell: to President …
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
The Campaign Co-Chairs
… The University-level leadership of The Harvard Campaign … which it sold in 2011 to Microsoft, the software enterprise founded by Hutchins’s College classmate Bill Gates, … and board chair of 2U , an online higher-education enterprise that is exploring some of the same technological …
Who Teaches?
… Tucked within the November Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) faculty … 2009, and then stopped growing. The non-ladder census has risen 44 percent since 2003. There are now nearly half as …
Issue: March-April 2023
From Science to Song
… Like a 370-year-old adolescent, Harvard is in the middle of a growth spurt. In fact, if the building boom … every kind of building project. The high-rise One Western Avenue, at the edge of the business school …
Issue: May-June 2006
Looking at the Cosmos through a Feminine Lens
… In a new exhibition at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, artist Anna Von … and hand-stitched quilts to focus on the life and work of Henrietta Swan Leavitt, A.B. 1892 , a female astronomer … a century ago, and whose work led to the first method of measuring distances between stars. The craftsmanship …