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Faculty Meeting Summary
… In a remarkable meeting held on the Ides of March in the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) twice voted to register its lack …
James R. Houghton to Retire from Harvard Corporation
… James R. Houghton '58, M.B.A. '62, senior fellow of the President and Fellows of Harvard College (the formal name for the Harvard …
A Lifetime with Bach
… For some music lovers, it may be a relief when the 250th anniversary of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach passes on July 28. Though he has …
Student Sightings: From the People's Republic to Paris
… Two of the magazine's former Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate … so far. Her most recent post, "The Crisis Among Crises" , is a somber reminder of China's continuing difficulties in dealing with …
Why Do Yellow Birds Sing?
… A plant of modest beauty and legendary elusiveness, Shortia … coltsfoot, is a woodland, evergreen, herbaceous herald of spring, about eight inches high, liking moist shade and … incomplete specimen (leaves, stem, and a single fruit) in the mountains of Carolina in 1787 and took it home to …
Issue: May-June 2002
Remembering Earl Kim
… In the opening moments of the documentary Earl ., the film’s subject is described by … prolific, imaginative composer—whose works are not often heard these days.” This film seeks to change that, …
An Unprecedented Gift for Undergraduate Financial Aid
… Kenneth C. Griffin ’89, founder and chief executive officer of the Citadel LLC , a multibillion-dollar, Chicago-based hedge-fund and financial-services enterprise, has given Harvard $150 million, principally for …
“Study-Ins” and Studying
… The bullhorn-led responsive chanting and shouted epithets … 100 pro-Palestinian students taped flyers to the backs of their laptop screens and read for an hour. That … Other students, facing health challenges or family crises, may also seek to sustain their College schooling …
Max J. Krupnick , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2025
Letters (expanded)
… American Economic Competitiveness I found the compilation of conversations “Can America Compete?” … obtaining a detailed understanding of how a personality arises from the electrochemical interactions within …
Issue: November-December 2012
Joyful Noise
… Members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum are accustomed to sharing the stage: since its inception in 1971, its singers have often sung alongside fellow undergraduates in the …
Governing Harvard
… in 1636, has by law been formally governed by a Board of Overseers since 1642, and by the Corporation since 1650. The last legislation … structurally and by custom, on top of the entire enterprise sit the President and Fellows of Harvard College, known …
Issue: May-June 2006
George Daley Appointed Harvard Medical Dean
… stem-cell scientist George Q. Daley has been appointed dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS), effective January 1, 2017. … Barbara J. McNeil is serving as acting dean . Announcing the appointment, President Drew Faust described Daley as “an … robust community of biotechnology and pharmaceutical enterprises. “To maintain the pace of innovation, HMS will …
TED Curator to Give GSD Address
… and magazine publisher Chris Anderson, who now leads the influential TED conferences , will speak to imminent School of Design graduates on May 25. TED, established in … other projects and programs, now extend to thought leaders of all disciplines. Anderson, who was born in Pakistan (his …
Vincent Brown
… When Vincent Brown went on the job market eight years ago, he almost took his films--a few short comedies, nothing academic--off his CV for fear of not looking like a “serious” scholar. “It’s a good thing …
Issue: May-June 2010
Understanding Terrorism
… Beyond the emotional reactions necessarily provoked by the terrorist attacks of September 11 and subsequent anthrax-tainted mailings, the … and deter other threats--and defuse the forces that give rise to terrorist groups and acts? Ever since September 11, …
Issue: January-February 2002