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“I’m a Gambler with the Movies”
… Some weeks after the news that his entire filmography, some 50 documentaries … also the first time the post, formally called the Norton professorship in poetry, has been split: French New Wave … later this spring.) Wiseman is considered a chronicler of institutions: dance companies, schools for the deaf, …
Francesca Dominici: How Does Air Pollution Affect COVID-19?
… How does the air we breathe affect our body’s reaction to COVID-19? … Early on in the pandemic Francesca Dominici, Gamble professor of biostatistics, population, and data science at … on scientists by government and media during public-health crises—when answers are needed before conclusions exist. She …
The Classes
… post.harvard Alumni Login username and password to complete the registration process.) No account is required to submit … note or to submit an obituary . For questions regarding the class notes and obituaries on our website, please e-mail … … Class notes and obituaries for July-August 2014 … 8463 … The Classes … article …
Issue: July-August 2014
Behind the Scenes: Medical robotics changing lives
… working in a Washington, D.C.-area firm. You are 33, with the bulk of your working years ahead of you, until one day you unexpectedly suffer a debilitating …
A Faculty’s Vision
… On July 28, Harvard’s neighbor published the final report of the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education, and obligingly made it available for …
Issue: November-December 2014
In the Limelight
… Never mind that Conan O’Brien ’85 recently went off the air in a very public dust-up with broadcast executives. … or scenes from plays, or take the stage as a group to reprise performances from their undergraduate years. Part of …
Issue: May-June 2010
Video: Horse Racing's Exotic Wagers
… In this video clip, Steven Crist ’78, chairman and publisher of the Daily Racing Form, identifies some of the more exotic forms of wagering available to those who …
Winthrop Bell: Harvard Philosopher, MI6 Spy, and Early Forecaster of the Holocaust
… was a handsome, blond, blue-eyed philosopher, prisoner of war, and MI6 spy. An athletic outdoorsman, he had survived arduous employment as a surveyor in the wilds of northern Canada before coming to Harvard. But … fighting communism, while others worked to block America’s rise to power. Still, Bell succeeded in showing important …
Issue: March-April 2024
Off the Shelf
… by Meredith Mason Brown ’61, J.D. ’65 (Indiana, $30). The author, a biographer of Daniel Boone, does “better in history when it becomes … World War II through 20 revealing objects. A History of the Present Illness, by Louise Aronson, M.D. ’92 …
Issue: May-June 2013
“A Calling Above All Others”
… Ruth Simmons today delivered the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 2023 Convocation … environments.” “What new tragedy, they must ask, will arise tomorrow to unsettle further their future?” Simmons …
Off the Shelf
… in New England, by Maureen Meister (University Press of New England, $45). This useful illustrated guide to the movement that flowered from 1890 to 1920 puts into … Fellow Carter Wiseman, now a lecturer at the Yale School of Architecture, puts this genre of productive criticism in …
Issue: November-December 2014
The Corporation, Complete
… The announcement on September 23 that Jessica Tuchman … V. Wells Jr., J.D.-M.B.A. ’76, have been elected members of the University’s senior governing board, effective … ; and make it possible for the fellows to focus on matters of greatest strategic importance to Harvard. Tuchman, who …
Issue: November-December 2012
Practical Philanthropist
… Bob Friedman ’71 will never forget the moment at the Harlem Children’s Zone when the five-year-old son of a poor single mother announced his intention to attend … into the middle class, he founded the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) in 1979. He was 30 and had just …
Issue: September-October 2012
The Week’s Events
… Andrea Barrett, a novelist and short-story writer. Sanders Theatre. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2014, at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class photo, Widener steps. Class of 2014 Family Dinner and Party, at 6. Tickets required. …
Issue: May-June 2014
Mandela and Annan, What the World Needs Now
… The academic year began with two high-intensity visits by world leaders from Africa. Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations, from Ghana, spent Thursday, September …