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In the Valley
… as well. With more and more undergraduates taking semesters off to study, work, and volunteer far from Cambridge, the College hosts a special mid-year observance for degree … who can’t make the spring ceremony. Michael Zuckerman ’10, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, a social studies concentrator …
Issue: May-June 2011
Honoris Causa
… honorary degrees at Harvard's 350th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Charles Hard Townes. His Nobel Prize-winning research in quantum electronics gave rise to the maser and the laser. An alumnus of Duke, of …
The SIGnboard: Reunion Week Events
… Many Shared Interest Groups host get-togethers during Commencement and Reunion week. A few early … Hall, join fellow Harvard choral alums under the baton of Beverly Taylor (former associate DCA at Harvard, current DCA at the University of Wisconsin), accompanied by Noam Elkies, as we sing …
Issue: May-June 2019
Physics Ph.D. Appointed President of Williams College
… Theoretical physicist Adam F. Falk, Ph.D. '91, has been appointed the seventeenth president of Williams College , effective next April. Falk, age 44, is dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins, …
Staci Gruber: How Does Marijuana Affect the Brain?
… bud: marijuana has many names, but an even greater number of chemical constituents, from THC, the psychoactive component, to cannabidiols such as CBD, … users, because I think this is really going to surprise our listeners. Staci Gruber: Sure. In general, as I …
Bullish on Private Colleges
… In our July-August issue, Cizik professor of business administration Clayton M. Christensen and his former student, Michael B. Horn, of the Innosight Institute, made the case that the intersection … part by putting forth an educator’s take on business enterprises. Although the essays were conceived separately, both …
Issue: November-December 2011
A Championship Tune-up
… After going 5-10 in non-conference play, the Harvard men’s basketball team appeared a long shot to … season 17-12 overall and 12-2 in the Ivy League, a share of the conference championship and the number-one seed in … ability to break the press, and impressive maturity—all of which has put them in prime position to return to the …
Facebook’s Failures
… Jeff Horwitz began asking Facebook for information about the inner workings of its complex recommendation system, which pushes … Public Policy, and moderated by Latanya Sweeney , Paul professor of the practice of government and technology, the …
Yesterday’s News
… 1916 William Stanislaus Murphy, Class of 1885, leaves all his money to establish scholarships at the College for young men with his last name. 1926 The first … the number of undergraduates making the dean’s list has risen from 19.8 to 30.7 percent, while the list of those …
Issue: January-February 2016
The Library Test Kitchen
… “What if you thought seriously about the library as a laboratory, as a place where people do … his “Library Test Kitchen” class. Libraries as centers of knowledge and learning have a rich history—but an … future. The digital revolution, besides changing the nature of books, is transforming the role of libraries in …
Issue: July-August 2012
Faculty Diversity Developments
… The number of ladder faculty members at Harvard (professor, … faculty overall. The number of women faculty members has risen by 55 (or 16 percent) during the past six years. The number of black faculty members has risen by just five since 2003-2004, to 45. From 2003-2004 to …
Issue: January-February 2010
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
… British accent and a fading California suntan, remnants of her convent school days in London and her more recent undergraduate studies at Stanford. The fifth of the nine children of Rose and Joseph Kennedy ’12 came to …
Issue: May-June 2018
Not “Mickey Mousing”
… A hundred years ago , a night at the movies meant live music. Even low-end joints had at … grander establishments employed 50-piece orchestras (some of which, by the 1920s, were replaced by massive Wurlitzer … But decades after the talkie invasion and the mass die-off of silent movies, there are niches where the art of film …
Issue: July-August 2018
“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