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Harvard’s Graduate School Dean Steps Down
… Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences since January 2008, … the quality of our entering Ph.D. and A.M. classes has risen to unprecedented heights, as have the number of …
Venture Funding for Frontier Science
… The National Institutes of Health's "roadmap for medical … aims to remove roadblocks to discovery and to "transform the way biomedical research is conducted." One way to do that is to support "high-risk research" through a sort of venture financing, both for "pioneers" (scientists of …
Issue: May-June 2009
Hits, Heads, Helmets
… “ I can think of two hits in particular I took at Harvard that would … to anyone,” says Vin Ferrara ’95, who quarterbacked the 1994 and 1995 Crimson varsities. “So of course they weren’t diagnosed.” Ferrara, who earned an …
Issue: January-February 2010
Oldest Graduates
… The senior members of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, and recognized in the afternoon ceremony, were Lillian (Sher) Sugarman ’37, 97, of Swampscott, Massachusetts; and 104-year-old Donald F. …
Issue: July-August 2013
Faust: “There Is Still a Considerable Way to Go”
… that she, like all her women peers, “should be bearers of virtue.” “The more than 40 years since I have graduated from college … and how she could never have imagined that she might rise to her position, because “she had never seen a …
Highwheel Harvard
… The primitive "boneshaker" bicycle, with pedals attached directly to the front hub and wheels of similar diameter, made its Harvard debut in the winter of 1868-69, against the backdrop of an extraordinary …
Issue: November-December 2004
Off the Shelf
… Harvardiana. The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith, edited by … today may look down on Galbraith’s economics—but can any of them write as he did? Includes the classic exchange with …
Issue: September-October 2017
When Government Was Good
… When the one-half of American s who actually vote go to the polls this November, included in the process will be a generation of post-baby-boom citizens who've been raised under a …
Harvard Public Health’s $350-Million Infusion
… Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has received a $350-million gift from The Morningside Foundation, the philanthropic arm of … a leader of the family investment and other business enterprises, locally and in Hong Kong. “The Public-Health Moment” …
Site Seeing
… Space. The final frontiers—the last major developable parcels owned … soon have new buildings on them with all manner of space for faculty and staff members and students. Soon … where a new science complex of four buildings is about to rise above an underground parking garage with perhaps 600 or …
Issue: May-June 2008
Rising Risks with COVID Reinfection
… The risk of hospitalization, organ damage, and death rises markedly with repeat COVID-19 infection. Assistant professor of medicine Amy Barczak shared a Nature study that …
Football: Brown 31-Harvard 28
… For all rookie coaches, there is a baptism by fire. Andrew Aurich, Harvard’s … for both teams, the favored Crimson coughed up two leads of 18 points and botched a snap on a field goal that allowed … even late on this sparkling afternoon, it seemed as if none of this would matter. The Crimson quieted one of Brown’s …
Arts Transition
… At a special dinner in May, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy Knowles ended his lighthearted …
Meanwhile, Medaling in Arts and Humanities…
… On the same day Harvard alumnae won Olympic gold and silver … with the National Humanities Medal or the National Medal of the Arts. Recipients of the 2009 National Humanities Medal , presented for …
Grow Up!
… Writing in the Harvard Monthly in 1894, philosophy professor George … A.B. 1886, tried to account for the peculiar appeal of athletics in institutions of higher learning. The usual …
Issue: May-June 2015