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… For the 365th Commencement, Harvard went Hollywood, with … this year. President Drew Faust began formal acknowledgment of Harvard’s past entanglement with slavery , welcomed Air … Alan Garber paused. At times, students were supposed to rise but did not, or when commanded to rise were deemed to …
Issue: July-August 2016
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
Stemming the Applications Flood
… early to Harvard, in December, remain free to apply to other institutions in the regular action cycle (where offers of admission are mailed April 1), and need not make their …
Issue: May-June 2003
News from the HAA
… Ballots for University Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) should arrive in the … All Harvard degree holders are eligible to vote. The list of nominees below was accurate as of February 1. The names …
Downtown Oasis
… On a Sunday afternoon , the airy lobby of the Mattatuck Museum in downtown Waterbury … and includes a range of objects as diverse as industrial machines to mobiles by Alexander Calder,” says chief curator …
Issue: November-December 2022
Mem Hall: The Video
… Memorial Hall was at first hailed as an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture, but when the style fell from favor, even one of the building's architects looked askance at the edifice. …
Unequal America
… thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet … Since then, the topmost 1 percent have seen their share rise again: it shot past 15 percent in 1996 and crested at …
Issue: July-August 2008
News from the HAA
… Election Results The members of the Board of Overseers have elected Thomas S. … Jeremy R. Knowles Photograph by Stu Rosner TheHAA surprised Jeremy R. Knowles, outgoing dean of the Faculty ofArts …
Issue: July-August 2002
Behind the Scenes: Scholars' Differing Perspectives
… Often, the hardest part about writing an article is knowing where to start . That difficulty emerges a few times in the process. First, who are the best interview subjects? … race anyway , you’re going to talk to him first. The start of the piece will probably be the start of the race. It’s a …
From the Archives: Unwelcome Mats
… Refugees from the murderous wars in Sudan, Libya, and Syria, walking north … Bangladesh. These peoples all figure in the rising salience of immigration as a toxic political, economic, tribal, and racial issue across much of the developed, and part of the developing, world. The …
The Gardens at Elm Bank “Get People Growing”
… At its blooming best during the summer, Weezie’s Garden for Children is an enchanting … place for all ages. Stroll through the arched entrance of sculpted twigs, and wind along paths through this … exhibit specimens. But financial and leadership crises in the 1990s and early 2000s caused turmoil and a …
Issue: July-August 2021
The 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Oration
… Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, formerly Higgins professor of physics at Harvard, delivers his Phi Beta Kappa Oration, … now Josey-Welch Foundation Regents Professor in science at the University of Texas at Austin. Text copyright (c) 2008 …
Three for the Road
… Scholarships, three current Harvard students will do their research in England next year. Senior Jay A.H. Butler , of Eliot House and Paget, Bermuda, was named that island’s … study law at Exeter College, Oxford. Ensign William Kelly of New York City, a 2005 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Homelessness Public Health Crisis
… For Shawn Pleasants, the descent into homelessness wasn’t so much a plummet as an … his company began to unravel amid disagreements with his cofounders, and ultimately it dissolved. At about that same time, in 2010, his mother died of cancer. The two had been close. Pleasants grew up in San …
Issue: May-June 2024
Oxonians in the Making
… Thirty-two students from the United States won Rhodes Scholarships this year, and eight of them are at Harvard, which led the nation in the production of successful candidates for the award for the fourth …