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Ken Griffin’s Naming Gift for the Graduate School
… Kenneth C. Griffin ’89, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel LLC, the multibillion-dollar hedge-fund and financial-services …
President Faust’s Beginning-of-2012-2013 Message
… President Drew Faust today disseminated her beginning-of-the-year message to the University community . She expressed hope for “another year of institutional aspiration and…intellectual adventure.” (As …
Memorial Church Gets a New Set of Pipes
… Curious tourists peeking through the open doors of Memorial Church this summer will see neat stacks of lumber and many, many pipes. They won’t see churchgoers; …
Cambridge 02138
… Understanding Sleep Your readers should know something of what was left out of “ Deep into Sleep ,” by Craig Lambert (May-June, page 25). I will cite only two egregious errors. The article states, “Even 20 years ago, ‘The dominant …
Issue: September-October 2005
The Comeback Kid
… aplomb (as a child he’d briefly studied ballet) steps from the opening act of Balanchine’s Nutcracker. That incident occurred in … from his coevals on the men’s hockey team, but it’s a sign of the sheer oddity of Keenan’s adventures that it would …
Issue: July-August 2016
Harvard Finances: Strengths and Warning Signs
… The University’s financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017 , released this morning, was full of the sorts of results that make budget officers happy: … through the most recent year, the annual distribution has risen $370 million (26 percent), outpacing the 22 percent …
From Daguerreotype to Photoshop
… In the photograph, Henry James Jr., the future eminent … are posed for a daguerreotype in the New York City studio of Mathew Brady, who several years later would make his … people were very disturbed. It had to do, in part, with the rise of journalism as a modern institution and a new ethical …
Issue: January-February 2009
Gaming the Emotions
… stimulating, but in a new study led by Harvard psychiatry professors, one video game appears to help kids with severe anger problems gain control of their emotions. The pilot study at Children’s Hospital … that tracks heart rate as they play. If that indicator rises above resting levels--signaling that they’re …
Issue: January-February 2011
The Intellectual Clash Over Final Clubs
… Harvard College administrators may not have anticipated the fierce and intensely public debate that would erupt in response to the announcement at the end of April that members of historically male final clubs, Greek organizations, and …
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes
… For her as-told-to biography of the late artist Winfred Rembert, Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South , Erin D. Kelly , Ph.D. ’95, was …
The Zakim Center for Integrated Therapies
… The Leaonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, the new span connecting Boston and Charleston, honors the memory of a Boston citizen with a gift for building bridges between communities. Zakim died in December 1999 of multiple myeloma, a form of cancer affecting bone marrow. …
Issue: March-April 2002
Live Jazz in the Seaport
… Kick off Labor Day weekend with the sweet, Mozambican-infused music of Albino Mbie —and other artists—at the Boston Jazz Fest …
Issue: July-August 2019
Views from the Top
… During a meeting on April 15—Good Friday, and before the first Passover seder he celebrates with family … Although the pandemic continues, coping with the endless crises it imposed on a residential academic institution no longer commanded the almost exclusive attention of University leaders. Indeed, on April 25, Bacow advised …
Issue: July-August 2022
Nuclear Treaties and the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
… In this interview, Matthew Bunn , the Schlesinger professor of the practice of energy, national security and foreign …
The Divestment Debate
… Advocates of divesting Harvard’s endowment investments in the fossil-fuel industry —part of a movement urging such … this as a pass on other things.” … The temperature rises as students, faculty members, and administrators …
Issue: July-August 2014