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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 …
Eyes on the Island
… November, June Carolyn Erlick spent three weeks in Cuba, gathering contemporary images of the island and its people. Photography is not an easy … Center for Latin American Studies, found abundant examples of work that shows Cuba as it is, neither positive images …
Harvard Defends Race-Conscious Admissions at the Supreme Court
… Editor’s note. The magazine asked lawyer and legal analyst and journalist … a contributing editor, to report on the presentation of the Students for Fair Admissions litigation before the … first term, recused herself from the Harvard case in light of her recent past service on the Board of Overseers, but …
“More As People Than Dating Objects”
… dean from Fay House was going to prevent it.” Such was the mood in the spring of 1970, when a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students volunteered for a radical …
Issue: November-December 2011
The Harvard Corporation Reports
… Two years after the Harvard Corporation enacted sweeping governance reforms … Nannerl O. Keohane, LL.D. '93, and William F. Lee '72 offered a briefing on December 4 on how its work—and the … decisions” of financial consequence to the larger enterprise. “We have to be all sailing in the same direction,” he …
From the Battlefield to the Classroom
… Forces veteran Logan Leslie ’16 faced a unique set of challenges. He was significantly older than any of his fellow freshmen, had not been in school for years, … and had a family. “I ran into a fair amount of loneliness the first semester,” he says. “It was difficult to fit in.” …
“From Neither Here Nor There”
… The penultimate chapter of sociologist Roberto Gonzales’s book Lives in Limbo —the chapter he calls the most painful and gripping to read, … the one that would be its climax, if the book were a work of fiction—opens with a story about two factory workers on …
Issue: July-August 2020
“No Going Back to Normal”
… During much of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic forced closures throughout the country, Ibrahim Barry felt stuck in his head. A … available and no school to attend. Instead, he spent much of his time following the most sought-after basketball …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard Plans Contingencies for International Students
… The Harvard Kennedy School of Government announced this week … to Cambridge this fall. And the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), which already offers two master’s …
A Death in the Harvard Family: John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92
… humorist, and poet John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92, died of lung cancer today. A former president of the Harvard Lampoon, Updike went on to write more than 50 …
Making Liberal Democracies
… In the wake of Brexit and last November’s U.S. election, with many citizens and scholars fretting over the fate of the liberal order, a Harvard government professor is … explanations to make sense of democratization, such as a rise in society’s wealth or the formal institutional design …
Issue: May-June 2017
Crimson on the Hill
… A Harvard man may have regained the White House, but 2000 wasn't a good year for Harvard's … Republican senators, already diminished by the death of John H. Chafee, LL.B. '50, of Rhode Island. E. Spencer Abraham, J.D. '78, of Michigan …
Developing the Brain-Computer Interface
… City, Benjamin Rapoport, A.B.-A.M. ’03, M.D. ’08 (’13), often tagged along on weekend hospital rounds with his neurologist father. Samuel Rapoport was also an electrical engineer and a … applied technology to help patients suffering from a range of conditions. He taught his young son about the brain as an …
Issue: January-February 2025
The “Bionic Leaf ”
… leaf” that converts solar energy into a liquid fuel. The work—a proof of concept in an exciting new field that might be termed … off the catalyst on one side of the wafer, while hydrogen rises from the catalyst on the wafer’s other side. Nocera …
Issue: May-June 2015