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Flocking to Finance
… Recent graduates may take for granted the migration of one-fifth of their classmates into … 500 companies. Wessel concluded that the astronomical rise in finance-sector salaries has fueled income inequality …
Issue: May-June 2008
The Happy Misanthrope
… Betty Shamieh ’96, RI ’06, isn’t in the house tonight, but she is on stage. The small Off Broadway theater staging Fit for a Queen, her latest … often the smartest person in the room, so always surprised when she’s outwitted. Senenmut’s cruelty, though, …
Issue: January-February 2017
Elevating Education (The Ph.D.)
… On the heels of its doctor of education leadership (Ed.L.D.) degree, inaugurated to … prepared to effect sweeping changes in K-12 education, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is joining …
Back to the Drawing Board
… Two major Harvard construction projects have gone back to the drawing board as a result of civic objections to the architects’ designs. In … Buildings, Many Obstacles,” May-June, page 66). Quoting one of the commissioners, who had called the previous design …
“Neither Comfort nor Cover”
… In a February message to the University community, President Lawrence S. Bacow … that Harvard had “failed” Terry Karl, now an emerita professor of government at Stanford, when it did not take … of female faculty members in the government department has risen from 9 percent in 1980 to 31.3 percent in 2019, …
Issue: May-June 2021
A Lover of All Things English
… student at Harvard, Erin Moore ’98 already yearned to be on the other side of the Atlantic, where the authors she studied lived, … institutionalized study-abroad programs, she took a year off, got her first passport, and departed for King’s College …
Issue: September-October 2015
Cambridge 02138
… The Power Problem Part of the problem in energizing a … to acknowledge the severity and immediacy, yet solubility, of the problem. In his article highlighting Professor Daniel … almost the only option. For everything else, I’m just surprised that people still believe that government efforts to …
Issue: July-August 2006
Down-under Dominator
… Seventy-eight feet away at the other end of the tennis court, she doesn’t seem … regular season ranked seventeenth in the country (having risen as high as ninth, the best in program history) and …
Issue: July-August 2006
Studying the Stele
… On a campus with few public works of art, the monumental Chinese stele—17 feet tall, weighing in at 27 … been sadly neglected in the shadows along the western flank of the massive Widener Library. Its identifying sign is …
Issue: November-December 2012
People in the News
… Mr. Smith Stays in Cambridge The retirement of Richard A. Smith '46 from the Harvard … Although Henry Rosovsky '53, Ph.D. '59, Geyser University Professor emeritus, has stepped down as planned (and been …
Paid to Play
… in 1975, Jack R. Schylling '72 was supposed to be working the phones and organizing classmates for the Harvard College … Instead he was staring, bored and restless, out the window of his office in Holyoke Center. Suddenly a strange creature … he was mechanically inclined. He enjoyed taking apart small machines, bikes, and cars. Boats and aircraft, especially …
Writing Crime into Race
… have a record.” That sentence dropped like a hammer inside the meeting room where Khalil Gibran Muhammad, then 21 years … Several weeks earlier, Muhammad and a few other University of Pennsylvania students had organized a demonstration, with plans to seize copies of the student newspaper from distribution boxes: a …
Issue: July-August 2018
Yesterday's News
… 1915 During halftime at The Game, spectators donate $11,537.30 for war relief in … made at Yale and Princeton, but an average contribution of only 23 cents per person. 1920 As part of "Faculty Week" in Appleton Chapel, a different professor …
New Graduate School Dean
… Allan M. Brandt has been appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the … disease. His most recent book, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That …
Endowment Exposure to Fossil-Fuel Production Less than Two Percent of Assets
… Some 10 months after the University announced its 2050 “net-zero” goal for … held in the endowment —timed for the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day last April—Harvard Management Company (HMC) … data—in this case involving information on: portfolio enterprises’ baseline greenhouse-gas emissions, what steps they …