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“Service Connects Us to Each Other and the Community”
… public service and family figured prominently in the Commencement ceremony held at the Harvard Kennedy School … on June 3. Dean David Ellwood began by noting the dozens of national flags decorating the room, each representing the country of one or more of the school's imminent degree recipients, …
Extracting the Woodchuck
… It’s not often that a poet is famous enough to become the target of character assassination 50 years after his … Joyce Carol Oates who wrote critically, in 1988, about the rise of “pathography,” a variety of literary biography …
Issue: January-February 2014
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 …
Spring Forward
… gardens, but those that do grow here inspire passion in the hearts of hardy-zoned green thumbs. The Glebe House, for example—the Connecticut birthplace of the Episcopal Church in the New World—also boasts the …
Issue: March-April 2013
“Disasters Sift out the Resilient”
… In his last Commencement address as dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), Nitin Nohria, who steps down later this year after 10-plus years at the helm , urged graduates to remember their gratitude, even … you speak up with boldness.” Nodding once more at the crises created by the pandemic, Ndidi Nwuneli closed with an …
Harvard Headlines: A Genomics Pioneer and a Scholar of Government Regulation
… Freed professor of government Daniel Carpenter’s Reputation and Power , which will be featured in the "Off the Shelf" column in the September-October issue, is …
Endowment Value Rises to $32.7 Billion
… HIGHLIGHTS: Endowment valued at $32.7 billion as of June 30, up $2.0 billion (6.5 percent) from $30.7 billion … and comes close to returns recently reported by some other institutions. As the University set about raising a lot … to $32.7 billion … 1508 … 1511 … 1511 … Endowment Value Rises to $32.7 Billion … article …
Peter Marsden Appointed Dean of Social Science
… Peter V. Marsden , Geisinger professor of sociology and a Harvard College Professor, has been appointed dean of social science—one of the substantive, divisional deanships within the Faculty of …
Harvard’s Eugenics Era
… Harvard president emeritus Charles William Eliot addressed the Harvard Club of San Francisco on a subject close to his heart: racial … mixing would diminish the white race, writing: “Races have arisen which are as distinct in mental capacity as in …
Issue: March-April 2016
Reality Fiction
… not take long for a reader to realize that Selin Karadag, the tall, funny, and clever Harvard freshman who narrates … Batuman came to Harvard hoping to discover the deep secrets of books, “what literature really meant.” Like Selin, she … gravitated toward Russian literature, which she found “profoundly human,” eventually earning a Ph.D. in comparative …
Issue: March-April 2017
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
Where the Students Are
… on everyone from College students who have navigated their undergraduate years to those who have mastered … law, or business. But the Univeristy consists, famously, of separate “tubs” devoted to distinct kinds of teaching and research. As if one could not tell from the …
Issue: July-August 2005
The Builder’s Art
… The best show in Cambridge-campus construction is (sadly for … memory compares to the fiendishly complex wholesale redoing of the Fogg Art Museum into the new, three-in-one Harvard Art Museums complex, on the tightest of sites. From the removal of the Busch-Reisinger wing, on …
Issue: May-June 2013
Undergraduate Tuition
… During the past 20 years, Harvard's undergraduate bill has risen from $14,000 to $39,880 per academic year (before any offsetting financial aid), an increase of 183 percent. The …
Issue: September-October 2004
Cambridge 02138
… Harvard and the Middle East War Robert Soto and Robert Park ( Letters, … concerned that Harvard doesn’t care about the Gazan victims of the war that Hamas began on October 7. Soto wants “equal … carbon stated the importance of nitrogen in soil. I’m surprised he didn’t mention “peecycling,” the diversion of …
Issue: July-August 2024