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… service to readers, Harvard Magazine publishes letters to the editor on its contents and on Harvard matters, broadly defined. Beyond printing a representative sample of letters received in each bimonthly magazine, they and … promotion of the objective of diversity has also given rise to the suspicion that scholarship standards have been …
Issue: March-April 2024
Sarah Thomas, New Vice President for the Harvard Library, Sees Opportunities Ahead
… Sarah Thomas , the new vice president for the Harvard Library , shared her … an interview with Harvard Magazine during the second week of September, her fifth week on the job. The libraries have … announced in May, came as the Library Board (comprised of representatives from Harvard’s schools and charged …
The Solicitous Solicitor General Returns
… From the first introduction of Elena Kagan, J.D. ’86, the former dean of Harvard Law School who was nominated to the post of U.S. …
Facebook Hires Harvard Grad Who Rose to the Top at Google
… ties even beyond her degrees: she once served as chief of staff to former University President Lawrence H. Summers, during... The online social networking site Facebook announced this … ’91, M.B.A. ’95, will join the company as chief operating officer this month. Sandberg has spent the last six years at …
A Diabetes Link to Meat
… Red-meat consumption is already linked to higher levels of colorectal cancer and cardiovascular disease (atherosclerosis, heart disease, and stroke). Now researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have added an increased risk of type …
Issue: January-February 2012
Native Modern
… Conjure your image of a Native American. Modern Americans might first think of American Indians as relics of the past, their memory consigned to kindergarten … him for, like, nine months.…There were moments when he’d rise to being a great father. But for the most part, he was …
Issue: January-February 2019
A Vision for Post-Pandemic Harvard
… As a president twice, and adviser to many other university leaders, Lawrence S. Bacow says he often counsels them that their second year in office, after … certification, as reported here .) Less visibly, the “enterprise research campus” farther east toward the Charles River …
Uses—and Abuses—of Austerity
… Precious few words in economics evoke emotional responses of any kind. But austerity, the reduction of government deficits through tax increases or pared-down …
Issue: January-February 2019
Two Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Engineering
… The National Academy of Engineering has elected 66 new … including genomics pioneer George M. Church, Ph.D. '84, of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and William W. George, … School (HBS). Church, professor of genetics and director of the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics at HMS, was …
Faust: University Will Slow Pace of Construction in Allston
… Harvard will slow the pace of construction on its new Allston campus, … there will complete the foundation and installation of below-ground structural beams, tasks that were supposed …
Explaining the Armenian Genocide
… When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I on Germany’s side in 1914, more than 15 million individuals—an ethnic mix of Kurds, Turks, and other groups—lived in Anatolia. Among them was a population of an estimated 2 million to 2.5 million Armenians, mostly …
Divestment on the Docket
… and November discussions about climate change and whether Harvard should divest any endowment assets invested in fossil-fuel production, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has a formal motion on its agenda … explained in some detail in his remarks at the end of the November meeting). The motion before the faculty …
Addressing Disability
… The voices of disabled Harvard community members are finding … and Inclusion Faculty Award to Law School visiting professor Michael Ashley Stein; the event was a direct result … of Hannah Wong The changing student population gives rise to new demands for educating those with diverse needs. …
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal Sanders Theatre www.boxoffice.harvard.edu 617-496-2222 • January 14 … King Jr. and features the Harlem Gospel Choir. Dance http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice 627-496-2222 …
Issue: January-February 2012
Field Farm and The Folly
… The following text is a sidebar to " Modern and Historic ," … 413.298.3239 What other bed and breakfast offers an original Charles and Ray Eames chair for lounging by the fireside? Or a vintage Isamu Noguchi coffee ta ble and a Vladimir Kagan couch? Field Farm, a 1948 …
Issue: September-October 2007