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News from the HAA
… Applauded Established in 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize alumni who … will be honored on October 25 during the opening dinner of the annual fall meeting of the HAA board of directors. Christopher Bayley …
Issue: September-October 2001
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 …
The Prodigal Doctor Returns
… " O my God —this is the end of civilization as we know it." Such was the reaction of a physician friend of Stephen Bergman '66, M.D. '73, on …
“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
Jeremy Lin ’10 Makes Cover of “Sports Illustrated”
… Jeremy Lin ’10, the New York Knicks point guard recently promoted to a … taken the National Basketball Association by storm. Lin, profiled in Harvard Magazine as an undergraduate, is slated to appear on the cover of the next issue of Sports Illustrated. Here are some …
Grandparenting Guide
… Olivia Gentile ’96 launched The Grandparent Effect ( http://grandparenteffect.com ) this … special occasions and holidays, but “I think they were kind of enjoying retirement and didn’t really want to hang out … the media as a whole is doing a great job of covering the ‘Rise of the Grandparent,’ as I call it,” she explains. With …
Issue: July-August 2015
Cambridge 02138
… 2024, page 21) is half good. In focusing on only one of the causes of high prices, regulation, it is an advocacy … supply. While zoning undoubtedly plays a role, I was surprised by the omission of one of the most significant …
Issue: January-February 2025
Museums in our Midst
… England’s rich history, it may be surprising to learn that there are hundreds of small museums scattered across the region. “One story of … awe and mystery when you walk in and see the scale of these machines,” says Eric Peterson, A.L.M. ’11, director of …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard in Drag: The Collected Works
… In the bowels of the Hasty Pudding building at 12 Holyoke Street, a clubhouse … cell made glorious by its inhabitants--the costumes of Harvard men in drag from years and years of Hasty Pudding …
Issue: March-April 2002
Law of Large Letters
… A capital campaign often changes the look of a campus—especially Harvard’s current one, with … as the turf within . So it came as something of a surprise in November when Harvard Athletics and Fenway Sports …
Issue: March-April 2018
Arts and Sciences’ Inflection Point
… Students of learning and teaching at Harvard will find two especially interesting disclosures in the new annual report from Faculty of Arts and Sciences … through a joint MIT-Harvard Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines . It is examining circuits for intelligence; the …
Football: The Tapestry
… The 950-year-old Bayeux Tapestry ranks among the world’s … from the years 1064-66, culminating in the Norman victory of William the Conqueror over English King Harold II at the … an acute depressive phase, at a party in a Manhattan high-rise, McClelland’s life came to a spectacular, tragic end …
Issue: November-December 2023
Hold the Garlic Mustard
… , Alliaria petiolata, a European native, immigrated to the United States in the 1800s, says Kristina Stinson, … Other sources (viz., the on-line Invasive Plant Atlas of New England) suggest that settlers planted it for food … aggressive and menacing march through forests across much of the United States and Canada. Garlic mustard is a thug. …
Issue: July-August 2006
Dual Dean
… While John Wilkes Booth looks on with something like fatherly pride, Lee Harvey Oswald kneels in the Texas Book Depository and sights the scope of a rifle, right at James Bundy ’81, artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and dean of the Yale School of …
Issue: May-June 2017
Class on the Grass
… The eighth hole at the Granite Links Golf Club in Quincy, … program in 1993. Balmert struck a good drive to the crest of a hill on the left side of the fairway. Blocked from sight of the hole, she hit a …
Issue: May-June 2009