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Hammonds Named Dean of the College
… Evelynn M. Hammonds, the senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity, will be the next dean of Harvard College, the University announced today. Hammonds, who is Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and of African and African …
Work in the Key of Life
… teacher,” says Cynthia Ann Piltch ’74, “I would have said, ‘There’s a better chance of the pope becoming Jewish.’ I am a scientist. The idea of … Boston College. The number of older workers is also on the rise; the study found that 75 percent of workers who are 50 …
Issue: January-February 2011
Crimson Queens of the Rink
… The women’s hockey team ended January with a perfect 14-0 … have consistently frosted their opponents with devasting offensive flurries and a defense that has allowed just 0.83 … sole loss came against the UNH Wildcats, alma mater of veteran Crimson head coach Katey Stone, on December 14. …
Issue: March-April 2008
Survival of the Cooperative
… Paddling around the forested edges of a crocodile-infested lake in Panama, … insights into the bizarre cooperative breeding behaviors of certain tropical cuckoos. These greater anis ( Crotophaga …
Issue: January-February 2013
The Best of Bestowing
… Along with festive food and family gatherings, the holidays bring the inevitable social rituals of gift-giving. Some enjoy the art of finding or making the … known. And even for close friends and family, the question arises: What is a suitable, meaningful gift? Quickly followed …
Issue: November-December 2012
The Future of Food
… A glimpse of the future of food can be seen through the eyes of Andrew Ive, M.B.A. ’97. He is managing director …
Issue: March-April 2018
Portrait of the Artist as a Director
… The prototype of the silver-spoon baby, Paul Joseph Sachs was born in November 1878 in New York City, the eldest son of Samuel Sachs (a partner in the international banking firm …
Issue: September-October 2002
The Way of the Critic
… his byline, A.O. Scott) reviewed a big Hollywood release, The Avengers . He praised some aspects of the movie and bemoaned others, specifically “its … director said. “It was overrated.” “The thing that has surprised me is how much freedom there is with this job,” Scott …
Issue: November-December 2019
Can Multivitamins Reduce Cancer Risk and Slow Memory Loss?
… Multivitamins have ballooned into a $40 billion industry in the United States. In a world captivated by quick fixes, … promise hold up under scientific scrutiny? JoAnn Manson , professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of …
A Cluster of (Scholarly) Stars
… The Radcliffe Institute, spreading its wings as a center for … with a major research university, is extending the reach of its fellowship program literally to the edge of the … concerns of the physicists and cosmologists might give rise to a new academic locus for common work on campus. But …
Issue: November-December 2002
The Politics of Campus Planning
… city manager for Cambridge, has since 1995 been director of Harvard Planning and Real Estate, where she oversees $500 million of University-owned property. In an interview, excerpts of which follow, she discussed the major physical planning challenges that face Harvard in …
Twilight of the Lecture
… In 1990 , after seven years of teaching at Harvard, Eric Mazur , now Balkanski professor … who were successfully solving complicated problems. Then he discovered that his success as a teacher “was a … means revamping the entire teaching/learning enterprise—even turning it inside out or upside down. For example, …
Issue: March-April 2012
The Arts: More Than Diversion
… A former harvard president once told me, “The arts may be a nice diversion, but they’re just not that … with which I naturally take issue, numerous alumni have risen to prominence in the arts, media, and in … for greatness in their chosen paths, whether because of, or in spite of, what the University offers them as …
Issue: September-October 2011
Off the Shelf
… This learned, brilliantly written account explains how the European avant-garde came to captivate the American elite—as now embodied in that “hegemonic empire of art and money,” the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a … “10 dangerous trends” from “the mother of all debt crises” and the demographic time bomb (aging) to the “coming …
Issue: November-December 2022
The Harvard Medalists of 2015
… Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the … Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. President Drew Faust read the citations, printed in italics below. The 2012 recipient of the HAA’s David T.W. McCord ’21 Lifetime Achievement …