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Yesterday’s News
… 1915 The University’s new professor of hygiene institutes precautionary measures in the weekly inspection of milk, butter, and cream supplies in …
Issue: May-June 2020
Before Social Media
… How many people in the room remember what they were listening to on their … Lone Ranger: “Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear! From out of the past come the thundering … exhibition, and some of them may have learned to their surprise that tuning a radio might require more than pushing a …
Issue: May-June 2016
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 117th
… Incumbency has advantages. Of the 53 Harvard degree-program alumni or matriculants in the … aisle are six senators and 34 representatives, for a total of 54. Asterisks mark the four newcomers. Senate …
Issue: January-February 2021
Centennial Medalists 2015 full citations
… Organismic and Evolutionary Biology It is a rare holder of a Ph.D. who can claim that his dissertation was the subject of a major motion picture. Fewer still whose … he collaborated with colleague Burton Feldman to write The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680–1860 , a highly-praised …
Attention to Detail
… On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, interspersed amid … into creation, Adam and Eve banished from Eden—is a series of 10 bronze-painted medallions depicting scenes from the … work.” In the decades since, Callaway and his enterprise branched out in wide, and sometimes wild, directions …
Issue: March-April 2021
Doubts about Democracy
… conditions, elite commitment, some consensus within the society itself about national identity, and adequate institutional conditions. Iraq possesses some of these prerequisites, but is woefully lacking in others. … of oil production, that figure can be expected to rise dramatically. Iraq also boasts relatively high literacy …
Issue: July-August 2003
Engaging Radcliffe with the World
… For Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Paul professor of constitutional law and professor of history, spending a … conducting research as a Radcliffe Institute fellow during the academic year 2016-2017, when she was newly arrived at …
Issue: January-February 2019
Cambridge 02138
… Summing Up Summers The article on, and interview with, Lawrence Summers ( … page 56) should be required reading for members of the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers. The … to rescue scientists and other academics persecuted by the rise of Nazism. Hitlers first victims were the …
Issue: November-December 2006
Yesterday’s News
… 1924 Professor of dramatic literature George P. Baker, founder of the “47 Workshop” and instructor in playwriting and … to Yale from E.S. Harkness to be used in part to build a theater for the production of plays written by members of …
Issue: November-December 2014
Recenter Yourself in the Square
… September usually brings with it the promise of a fresh start as students return to school. Of course, this year is unlike any other due to COVID-19. …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Undergraduate: To Give and Take Care
… The thing about college that brochures can’t mention is that … to celebrate with when the storm clears, because both crises and celebrations are guaranteed. To build yourself a support network is a survival skill, and for many of us, undergraduate life is the first testing ground. …
Issue: March-April 2015
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
… During the 373rd Commencement this morning, Harvard will celebrate … president, now emeritus. Today’s relatively compact cohort of honorands is listed alphabetically below, not necessarily … Knot of Allston, where construction on the commercial enterprise research campus and a new theater complex is now well …
Arts and Sciences’ Aims
… D. Smith invited Harvard Magazine to his University Hall office to discuss objectives for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) $2.5-billion … the support of our alumni.” Faculty and the scholarly enterprise. Another 20 percent of the campaign will be dedicated …
Issue: November-December 2013
Post-Pandemic Pedagogy
… soon to tell how COVID-19 will alter life and work within the University community over time. But it is a good bet … academic year, and peered ahead. Its report on the future of teaching and learning at Harvard, published March 9, aims … recommendations. Next steps. Many significant issues arise from the task force’s overview. How willing is Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2022
Aloian Memorial Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has recognized Michelle Walsh ’20, of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and Benjamin Roy ’20, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, as the 2019 David and Mimi …
Issue: November-December 2019