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Arts and Sciences Status Report
… At the first Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the academic year, on October 4, Dean Michael D. Smith … of summer-research experiences on campus, with PRISE (pairing students with laboratory scientists) hosting …
Kidding Around
… Marc Goldberg ’79 is treasurer of the Varsity Club, a trustee of the Harvard Yearbook, and a season-ticket holder of the …
Issue: May-June 2005
Caroline Farrar Ware
… One of the most innovative historians of her day, Caroline Farrar Ware, Ph.D. '25, astonished the profession when her dissertation won a $10,000 prize. …
Issue: May-June 2009
Harvard Campaign Totals $9.62 Billion
… The value of Harvard’s brand name has now been established: … of the campus: As new challenges and opportunities arise in higher education and beyond, Harvard is well … Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), whose aid spending has risen about $100 million per year since 2004, when the aid …
An Offer She Couldn't Refuse
… An unexpected phone call from her son's therapist snapped Claire Scovell LaZebnik '85 out of her "second novel syndrome." Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel was … in lay language how to help a child overcome the symptoms of autism. LaZebnik, who says she was "completely oblivious …
Issue: March-April 2004
American Repertory Theater Moving to Harvard’s Allston Properties
… The Harvard-affiliated American Repertory Theater (ART), now … announced today. Important details—the exact site, timing of the planned move, and architectural or design features of … Sense of Surprising News The news contains multiple surprises: President Bacow has talked about making Harvard’s …
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Named Class Day Speaker
… The Harvard College Class of 2022 has selected Michelle Wu … to low-income small-business owners at the Community Enterprise Project. She then served as a statewide constituency …
Commencement Confetti
… 7, Harvard conferred 6,871 degrees and 138 certificates. The College granted 1,694 of these, 71 summa cum laude. Mother Nature, the ultimate … multitude that returned that afternoon to hear the address of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. (The day before, also …
Issue: July-August 2007
Commencement Confetti
… HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER) "Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students … to become an overachiever; through H. h. erectus, as it rises in stature in the second year (but drinks from huge …
Issue: July-August 2004
Driving on I-95
… I grew up in a town of roads—roads that forked into obscurity, curved around mountain edges, fatal to deer and the neighbor’s dog. Roads that ran parallel to old stone … I could ride my three-geared red boys’ bike in the safety of our development, up and down driveways, in figure eights …
Powerful Conversations
… The Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) has long offered students safe space for thoughtful career … and Where Are You Going?” and single-session discussions on the topic “Insanely Busy: What Would Happen If I Slowed …
Issue: November-December 2008
"Listen to One Another": Harvard Commencement
… For a newish president, Lawrence S. Bacow has had a lot of practice with the solemn ritual and spirited hoopla of graduations. He was … divest its endowment holdings in fossil-fuel enterprises. Other speakers of note. Elsewhere around campus and …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
When Children Fall Ill
… to tell her own story. It felt right, and healing, to honor the life of her daughter Cameron, who had died of a rare genetic … would say no to that?” The world of pediatric medical crises—of days and nights spent in intensive care units, of …
Issue: January-February 2023
Alexander Wheelock Thayer
… pianist, conductor, and composer, Ludwig van Beethoven was the most famous musician in music-crazy … Europe. He also displayed personal traits—a love of nature, a mercurial temperament, unorthodox behavior—that made him a superb embodiment of the wild “Romantic genius.” It is thus …
Issue: January-February 2007
A Rudenstine Retrospective
… Only 10 years ago, at the end of the 1990-1991 academic year, Harvard and the … hospitals, filling one new research tower and giving rise to plans for another (now being built), where complex …