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Sunil Amrith
… “Picture the Bay of Bengal as an expanse of tropical water: still and blue in the calm of the January winter, or raging and turbid with …
Issue: September-October 2017
Reflections on a River
… , 15 UMass Lowell seniors, graduation day in sight, push off from the city’s Bellegarde Boathouse for an afternoon of kayaking … takes between two and four hours. “People are often surprised when they get out on the water that the river’s as …
Issue: July-August 2017
Broken Baseball Bats: A Harvard (Statistician's) View
… The New York Times reports that Major League Baseball has retained Carl Morris, professor of statistics and professor of health care policy, to assist …
Saving Lives in Ukraine
… says Brooks Newmark ’80, M.B.A. ’84. “While I don’t have an official charity organization behind me, I have a lot of energy.” Newmark, a transplanted American who was formerly the Minister for Civil Society in the government of British …
A Call to Service
… Near the start of his address, journalist Jim Lehrer, who collects bus memorabilia, gave a splendid rendition of a Trailways boarding call, which can be heard with RealPlayer [ link to archived video of the afternoon exercises ]. Then he got serious. I believe …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard Adopts Quantitative Reasoning, Studies Preregistration
… Facing an unusually full agenda during its last full meeting of the academic year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) … defined distributional requirement. Thus Gen Ed now comprises: four purpose-built courses from the curriculum’s …
At Home with Harvard: Theater & Broadway
… 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 previous selections, featuring articles about income … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Harvard Graduation, in the Lambert Clan
… “Hunt” Lambert, was only a boy. Today, he serves as dean of continuing education and University Extension (see a profile of him here ). Having been appointed in 2013, he awarded the Extension diplomas for the first time at Commencement …
An Intimate Look at Zuckerberg and Other High-Tech Figures
… by businessweek.com columnist Sarah Lacy promises a behind-the-scenes look at the stories of several Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, including Facebook founder … York Times reviewer Katie Hafner decides : Her descriptions of their business meetings come complete with snatches of …
Royall House and Slave Quarters
… mansion in what’s now Medford, Massachusetts. To operate the surrounding 500-acre farm, enormous by colonial-era … standards, he also shipped north across the ocean “a parcel of negroes.” Those 27 enslaved people were plucked from … economic importance in the North—which still come as a surprise to some visitors. The quarters consist of the 1737 …
Issue: September-October 2020
The Day’s Events: Friday, May 29
… Radcliffe Day, and this year’s festivities will include the panel “A Decade of Decisions and Dissents: The Roberts Court, from 2005 to … Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L’ 59, LL.D. ’11, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States . She will …
Reasons to Run
… continents, and raise money for seven charities. And in the process, she hopes to set a world record. A varsity … loves her job, but says she found herself missing the rush of competing: “I realized I needed to run.” Courtesy of In The Running Erin Sprague at the Beijing Marathon That …
Issue: September-October 2007
Faculty Figures
… An interesting perspective on faculty growth, a core element of Harvard’s mission, emerges from the intersection of Harvard Campaign plans and constrained research funding. …
Issue: January-February 2016
Intelligent Evolution
… Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson, a scholarly giant of … remains at heart a teacher. His latest lesson concerns the continuing consequences of Charles Darwin’s “timeless … draws on his lifelong immersion in the scientific enterprise and his study of the foundational Darwinian texts to …
Issue: November-December 2005
Centennial Medalists 2021
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …