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News from the HAA
… Invaluable The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in … will be honored on November 2 during the opening dinner of the annual fall meeting of HAA directors. Rozlyn L. Anderson '77, J.D. '80, of …
Greater Boston’s Season of “Social Trust”
… In late May, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health assistant professor Joseph Allen put it bluntly: “This is going to be a … summer.” Even as many parks and preserves that closed in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic began reopening this …
Issue: July-August 2020
University People
… 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
Learning to Change the World
… One of the highlights of my spring semester is speaking with members of the senior class about their plans for the future. Some …
Issue: May-June 2016
“Wild Dreams”
… For a three-year-old Malaysian girl, the “magic hour” came in the heat of the afternoon, when everyone else in the small white … stand at the window, watching in wonder. “The world is full of this shimmering heat, a tropical dream,” she recalls. …
Issue: March-April 2020
The Results Are In
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new …
Issue: July-August 2010
John Stilgoe on “Acute Observation”
… On a Tuesday in late July, as the last few students filter in from the evening swelter to … in the Carpenter Center, John Stilgoe, the Orchard professor in the history of landscape—and as unique a figure as there is on the …
Final Clubs: The Lingering Aftermath
… As previously reported, the Harvard Corporation has adopted a policy that prohibits undergraduate members of unrecognized single-gender social organizations (USGSOs: … such as Rhodes and Marshall scholarships. In the wake of the process that resulted in that decision, extending …
A Scientific Windfall for the University?
… , and its 110,000-square-foot facility overlooking the Charles River, may soon be merged into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, according to an October 26 article in … "Reshaping the Science Center," page 68), has a history of Harvard-linked research activity. Several of its past and …
Issue: January-February 2002
Off the Shelf
… The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, by Gordon S. Wood, Ph.D. ’64 …
Issue: November-December 2011
All About the Food
… At lunchtime , Law of Pasta owner Avery Perry darts around his Boston Public … Market shop, stopping just long enough to explain himself: “They call me the ‘bad boy of pasta,’” he says, gesturing to cases of freshly extruded …
Issue: September-October 2019
An Amazon Artist
… smitten with artists’ better-than-photographic renderings of charismatic fauna (Audubon’s birds, for instance) and flora. Among them, happily, was Mildred Bliss, who with her husband, … traveling to Germany in the early 1930s, she witnessed the rise of Nazism and the Reichstag fire; her first husband was …
Issue: May-June 2020
Alice Hamilton
… When Alice Hamilton arrived at Harvard in 1919, the University had never admitted a woman to the faculty. … take it personally. She saw her appointment as assistant professor in the new Department of Industrial Medicine as an opportunity to continue the …
Issue: May-June 2025
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 …
Staging a Harvard Tradition
… Every June, on Commencement day, Harvard rolls out the crimson carpet for about 32,000 people. It is arguably … in a good mood," says Hoopes Wampler, Ed.M. '99, director of College alumni programs at the Harvard Alumni … "going crazy." The counting behind him, he has seen the sun rise, and moved on to last-minute tasks. "At a certain …
Issue: May-June 2002