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Conceptualizing Small
… The nanoscale world is the realm of the truly small. One … through. The ridges of an old 33-rpm vinyl recording would rise before you like mountain ranges (pictured on this page, …
Issue: January-February 2010
The SIGnboard
… The harvard alumni association has approved more than 30 … . Harvard Magazine invites SIGs to share news of their activities in this space. (Send items to … Also in New York, enjoy mixed cocktails at the Rubin Museum of Art on January 18 ( …
Issue: January-February 2013
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 20 … clubs/html/SIGdir.shtml . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this space. (Send items to …
Issue: September-October 2009
The “Father” Father: A Video
… Read Nell Porter Brown’s article “The Father Father,” in the January-February issue of this magazine, and watch the video below about Father Paul O’Brien ’86, his work as pastor of St. Patrick’s Church in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and his …
Issue: January-February 2012
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 30 … clubs/html/SIGdir.shtml . Harvard Magazine invites SIG officers to share news of their groups’ activities in this space. (Send items to …
Issue: September-October 2010
At Home with Harvard: Great Legal Minds
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … ’62, a former federal appeals court judge credited with the rise of the law and economics movement, and “ A Workable …
Mitzvot
… “What is the best thing you’ve done as president?” It is a question I … asked frequently these days. If I were to name everything of which I am proud, everything accomplished with the help of many other people over these last five years, there would …
Issue: March-April 2023
In “Little Fires Everywhere,” a Custody Battle Ignites the Comfortable Suburbs
… arson by a rebellious teen, Celeste Ng ’02 speaks warmly of her adolescence in Shaker Heights, Ohio, an affluent Cleveland suburb. The high school offered a lot of creative writing classes, she remembers, …
Three Harvardians Awarded 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Grants
… Harvardians have been named MacArthur fellows . Known as the “genius” grant, the fellowship recognizes individuals … pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” Each of the approximately two-dozen fellowsis awarded $800,000, … funds are a no-strings-attached investment in the promise of the fellows’ work. The Harvard-affiliated recipients are: …
Fighting Need on the Lower East Side
… During a whirlwind tour of Henry Street Settlement’s operations, executive director David Garza ’86 stops at the Workforce Development Center. Classrooms and offices … the money and bureaucracies, while responding to daily crises inherent in 24/7 social-services work, is, Garza often …
Issue: March-April 2019
Henry Chapman Mercer
… found not a house in flames, but a bonfire atop Fonthill, the fantastical 44-room concrete home of Henry Chapman Mercer, A.B. 1879. That bonfire let Mercer celebrate his birthday, maintain the tradition of fires on St. John’s Eve, and inaugurate his new home by …
Issue: January-February 2018
The SIGnboard
… The Harvard Alumni Association has approved more than 30 … . To share news of SIG activities in this space, send items to classnotes@harvard.edu , using SIG in the “class year” line. First Generation Harvard Alumni … Harvard Military Memorials Walking Tour, dedicated to many of Harvard’s more than 1,350 alumni, staff, and faculty …
Issue: November-December 2013
After the Storm: Presidential Perspectives
… During a conversation at her Massachusetts Hall office on September 8, and in a September 21 Sanders Theatre dialogue with former ABC news anchor Charlie Gibson, … and its direction. After the “unanticipated, earthshaking crises of 2008-2009” (when the endowment’s value sank by …
Issue: November-December 2010
Finding Other Streets
… has lived only one life, thus far, but he’s considered another one—photographically. It’s the life on display in Other Streets , a 2019 collection of photos he took while studying in Vietnam as a Harvard … Born Đỗ Văn Hùng in Saigon in 1972, Erickson was one of more than 3,000 Vietnamese children—some orphans, some …
Issue: November-December 2020
Reporting, with an M.B.A.
… In the history of stock market rallies and economic recessions, … says . “ At such times, a few financial storytellers often rise to prominence: people you’ve never heard of who fill … hegemony in online search, the economics of fads, and the rise of risk at Fannie Mae (the government’s mortgage-loan …
Issue: January-February 2022