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The FAS and SEAS Campaign Co-Chairs
… The leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and … which it sold in 2011 to Microsoft, the software enterprise founded by Hutchins’s College classmate Bill Gates, … and board chair of 2U , an online higher-education enterprise that is exploring some of the same technological …
Chan Zuckerberg Commits $500 Million to Harvard Neuroscience and AI Institute
… and Priscilla Chan ’07, announced today a gift to establish the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard. The new … ”), is named after Karen Kempner Zuckerberg, the mother of the Meta CEO and founder (Facebook, Instagram, and …
“Working Sisters”
… The massive rural-to-urban labor migration that has been … factors such as famine, war, or the forced relocation of population groups under draconian state policy, migration … Motor Company, but also to a state-owned, socialist enterprise. For young migrants, Yue Yuen offers both stability and …
Issue: January-February 2009
Daring to Choose
… Daniel Joseph Wilner, 2007 graduate, delivers the Undergraduate English Oration titled “Daring to Choose” … expressed to me a few weeks ago. Genzie was not in the grip of a particular decision. She was decrying having to make decisions at all. She wished there could be some sort of machine with two lights - one green, one red - that would …
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
Chapter & Verse
… Dale Higbee hopes to learn the source of a comment by Archibald MacLeish: “We know all … we don’t know.” Alethea Black requests the title and author of a poem about how life would be if we grew younger over …
Issue: January-February 2006
A Postmodern Youth
… Zubaida Haque , narrator of The Bones of Grace , envies the moral clarity of her adoptive parents’ …
Issue: July-August 2017
Harvard Business School Announces Major Conference Center
… that Seth Klarman, M.B.A. ’82, and Beth Klarman have made the naming gift for Klarman Hall, a major new conference … new facility had been incorporated into the HBS elements of Harvard’s recent institutional master plan filings for … Tata Hall, dedicated last December —suggesting the rise of a new vocabulary for the campus as a whole. In a …
Board of Overseers and HAA Candidates Finalized
… The University has announced the finalized 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association elected … Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D. ’87, president and CEO of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, has withdrawn …
Fighting for Afghanistan
… The sound of a bomb detonating breaks the stillness of Kandahar’s morning hours. To Sarah Chayes ’84, in her … Radio “smoke jumper”—a foreign correspondent dispatched to crises—she had left her Paris base numerous times to report …
Issue: January-February 2008
The Changing Consensus on Healthcare Cost-Sharing
… it was accepted wisdom among economists that shifting more of the burden of medical expenses to patients would help reduce the cost …
Guilt-Free Childbirth
… Amy Tuteur ’80, an obstetrician-turned-writer and mother of four, is the self-proclaimed “Enemy Number One of … or the manner in which she cares for her baby. Surprised? Unfortunately we live in a society where these …
Issue: July-August 2016
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 …
Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum
… Before painter Milton Avery’s works were featured in the world’s most prestigious museums—and long before they … in the millions—the artist now known for his playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire lived an … Connecticut. Laboring and clerking at various factories and offices, Avery, born in 1885, supported his family while …
Issue: March-April 2022
“You’re, At Best, a Punk”
… Avi Steinberg ’02 spent two years as the prison librarian at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston. An excerpt from his Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian appears below with …
Issue: January-February 2011