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… Currier House Chiefs Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, and … ’95, have been appointed faculty deans of Currier House (the first leaders appointed to that post since the title was … Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign (for more on Mele, see “ Rise of the Little Guy ”).…Black professor of political …
Issue: July-August 2016
Plain Speaker
… Imagine understanding your tax form instructions the first time you read them. What if all federal rules, … maintains Bruce V. Corsino, M.Ed. ’80, through the adoption of “Plain Language.” As head of the Plain Language Program … please describe how you’d like us to manage the breathing machines for your loved one?” That sounds clear and …
Krysten A. Keches , Nell Porter-Brown
Issue: January-February 2010
Outside In
… Timothy Reckart ’09 gets onomatopoetic. Boingggg conveys the “nice, natural motion blur” of a claymation monster’s party-favor tongue grabbing its … in music composition, set design, and other departments comprised a ready-made crew for Reckart’s final thesis. The …
Issue: November-December 2016
The New Old Boston Athenaeum
… In the mid 1990s Leah Rosovsky ’78, M.B.A. ’84, was raising … the Harvard libraries during a capital campaign as a member of the FAS development team. She recalls people saying, … anymore now that everything is turning to digital.’ And, of course,” she says now, “the absolute opposite has …
Issue: March-April 2025
Giants
… B oston brahmin. The towering Adams University Professor emeritus Bernard … the national historical convention, and to everyone’s surprise, he appeared on the hotel mezzanine crowded with …
Issue: March-April 2020
Intellectual Entrepreneurs
… first issue declared, in 2004, “We are living in an era of demented self-censorship…a time when a magazine like … Seven issues later, at more than 200 pages apiece, the Brooklyn-based n+1 continues to air trenchant views. … in the New York Times Magazine, describing n+1’ s enterprise as “a generational struggle against laziness and …
Issue: January-February 2010
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … may sign in to view class notes and obituaries published in the print edition of this magazine. … 29666 … November-December 2010 Class …
Issue: November-December 2010
Harvard’s Financial Outlook
… The University ’s severely challenging academic year —marked … divided over the Middle East war, an abrupt change of presidents, a pro-Palestinian encampment that spawned … expenses, has accelerated as use of medical services has risen and hospitals have had to pay their own large staffs …
Pay the Term Bill in Barrel Hoops
… hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Roger Thompson of Norwich, England, an emeritus professor of American history at the University of East Anglia, is at work on a history of …
Issue: September-October 2004
Educating Undergraduates
… In the new academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences … and universities to recognize that "Special education comprises a wider field than vocationalism; and correspondingly, …
Issue: September-October 2004
The Classes
… obituaries. Registration is required for first-time users; the registration process is not instantaneous. No account is … may sign in to view class notes and obituaries published in the print edition of this magazine. … 27180 … September-October 2010 Class …
Issue: September-October 2010
How Much Alcohol Is Safe?
… It’s fitting at this time of year, when many abstain from beer and wine for “Dry January,” to consider the shifting public conversation about drinking alcohol. The … Organization, for example, warns that even small amounts of alcohol can be harmful to health. News headlines often …
Issue: January-February 2025
Public Service on the Map
… The Harvard Alumni Association launched its first Global Month of Service in April; now the University is continuing that initiative by hosting a …
Issue: May-June 2010
Mood and Magnetic Stimulation
… In 2001, a research assistant at the Harvard Medical School-affiliated McLean Hospital noticed an intriguing pattern. One of her tasks was to escort study participants to and from a … imaging (MRI) machine where they received brain scans. All of the participants had bipolar disorder and were depressed; …
Issue: November-December 2014
“Women’s Weekend” Is Launched
… more than 400 alumnae and friends gathered this past weekend for Harvard’s first University-wide … Alumni Association (HAA), the weekend featured dozens of events on subjects of interest to women, including race, … shared a pedagogical tip. Alluding to her 2014 book The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , Jean Martin