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Abraham Verghese’s 2025 Commencement Speech at Harvard
… President Garber, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, faculty, … in small towns in the rural south, I was pleasantly surprised to find my patients so well received by their families …
The Day’s Events: Friday, May 30
… this year’s festivities will include an expanded program of panels and speakers , including former Harvard president Neil L. Rudenstine. Events include the panels “From Civil War to Civil Rights: The Unending Battle to Vote,” “Gender and the Business of Fiction,”and “What is Life? The Science and Ethics of …
Testing Trap
… Supporters of the reauthorization, last January, of the Elementary and … half the states had met the requirements. It came as no surprise to learn that by the year 2000, many schools with Title …
Issue: September-October 2002
Phishing for Trust Online
… There is one kind of privacy attack that neither complexity of encryption nor any locked door can …
Issue: September-October 2009
A Conversation with Tracy K. Smith ’94
… Tracy K. Smith ’94 is a poet and professor at Princeton who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for … on Mars, dealt with matters of grief and religious faith in the wake of her father's death. Her newest work, Ordinary … in the right way, would obey my wishes—even if it surprised me, or perhaps because it was capable of surprising …
Brevia
… Museum Management Jane Pickering —executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture since 2013—has been … has increased as employment prospects and wages have risen (and as public institutions’ tuition bills have soared …
Issue: September-October 2019
Sesquicentennial Soirée
… On the first warm night in May, several hundred literary New … on Park Avenue. They were celebrating—not the publication of a recent book (despite the presence of authors like Louis Begley ’54 and Nell Freudenberger …
Issue: September-October 2016
Scientific Misconduct, and Its Aftermath
… A university investigation found psychology professor Marc Hauser “solely responsible” for eight instances of scientific misconduct, announced Faculty of Arts and … (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith on August 20, 10 days after the Boston Globe broke news of the investigation . Hauser …
Issue: November-December 2010
The Day’s Events: Thursday, May 28
… 28, include: Gates to Harvard Yard open at 6:45 A.M., and there will be a morning prayer service for graduating … ceremonies at the undergraduate Houses, graduate, and professional schools. At 2 P.M. Rajesh Panjabi, co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health will speak to Harvard Medical School …
At the College, Price Tag and Financial Aid Both Edge Up
… announced today that undergraduate tuition and fees for the 2010-2011 academic year will total $50,724, an increase of 3.8 percent from last year’s $48,868. At the same time, … change in the financial burden for the more than 60 percent of students who receive aid. The estimated average …
Radcliffe Institute Dean Liz Cohen to Step Down
… Jones professor of American studies Lizabeth Cohen, who was appointed dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in early 2012 … several months, announced today that she would step down at the end of the academic year. She will return to her …
Architecture and Urbanism: Shanghai and Beyond
… Panelists : Mohsen Mostafavi , Dean, Graduate School of Design Alex Krieger , Professor in practice of urban … and principal designer, Turenscape Dean Mostafavi began the discussion by noting that the Graduate School of Design … evident in the broad streets of Pudong, with the resulting rise of gridlocked traffic (as in Beijing, routinely) and …
Issue: May-June 2010
Buzz, Buzz
… and want a fun night out with live music and a splash of funk, where do you go? The clubs and bars lining Lansdowne and Boylston streets are out of the question (too many giddy kids, too little substance). …
Issue: January-February 2008
An Evolving Foe
… There was a time when it seemed that medicine and human … ingenuity could remove deadly infections from the face of the planet. The stunning success of vaccines in wiping … of this disease, but ever since, cases have been on the rise. Every year, more than a million people—mostly children …
Issue: March-April 2010
Harvard’s $2.5-Billion Arts and Sciences Campaign
… Speaking on the morning of October 26, Dean Michael D. Smith introduced … learning. He must also have enjoyed springing a surprise. Appearing on stage in a blazer and khakis, he shed his …