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Aloian Award 2011 winners Marcel Moran and Annie Douglas
… Each year, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) selects two students as … demonstrated solid leadership in contributing to quality of life in the Houses, traits embodied by the Aloians, who … 1981 to 1986. David Aloian ’49 was also executive director of the HAA. This year’s scholars, Anne “Annie” Douglas ’12, …
Issue: November-December 2011
New Recommendations for Ending Gender Discrimination in Harvard College
… report recommending expansion and consistent application of a policy that, starting with the freshman class entering in the fall of 2017, would bar new members of male and female final …
Where Do Overseers Come From?
… How are members of Harvard’s Board of Overseers chosen—and what do they do, once they are elected to the governing board? Those … divestment of endowment assets from fossil-fuel enterprises, reinvestment in enterprises involved in addressing …
Marc Hauser Resigns
… Professor of psychology Marc D. Hauser, who was found "solely … according to a letter dated July 7 that was published in the Boston Globe yesterday. Hauser's letter did not mention the misconduct findings; he wrote that he planned to tackle …
Cambridge 02138
… Poor Jack, or is it Jill, pictured sitting atop a needle on the cover of your July-August issue (" Stem-Cell Science ," by … treated in the unnatural environment of a laboratory, give rise not so much to bright prospects as to terrifying risks. …
Issue: September-October 2004
Personal Excerpts: Alumni Write about Alzheimer’s
… Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry (Paul Dry Books, 2011) by … Rutgers University English professor Rachel Hadas recounts the medical interview during which her husband of more than … was alarm and fear, but really, as I now recall it, no surprise.” Making An Exit: A Mother-Daughter Drama with …
Issue: September-October 2013
Unicyclists in a Good Cause
… through Montreal and neighboring districts in Quebec. Their vehicle of choice? The unicycle. The trip, dubbed “A Balancing Act,” … at a circus camp during middle school and received one of her own for her thirteenth birthday. Philip Wharton rode …
Issue: September-October 2009
Enhancing Religious Literacy
… Over the two decades that I have been teaching at Harvard I have … about Islam, but I was ill prepared when, a couple of years ago, a student asked me over dinner at a restaurant … all interpretations of religion are essentially human enterprises; the faithful may consider certain religious truths to …
Issue: September-October 2011
Blindspot: A Novel
… friends since graduate school, didn’t plan to write a book. Their project, set in 1760s Boston, was supposed to be a sketch, a playful spoof of two genres: the picaresque, with its rogue hero exposing …
Issue: November-December 2008
Radcliffe Day: Gender Equity, Melinda French Gates
… After the University staged virtual Baccalaureate and graduation … on students and honorands , and finally, invited the wisdom of distinguished guest speakers , attention turned today to Radcliffe Day, the traditional Friday focal point of Harvard’s marathon Commencement week. A noon panel on …
Lydialyle Gibson , Juliet Isselbacher
Zigzag Memory Lane
… Shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, federal agents began a … for two men seen renting the van used in the attack. One of those men, Timothy McVeigh, was recently executed. The … his sins may collapse into one, or an eighth mistake may arise. But the central message will not lose its relevance, …
Issue: January-February 2002
Shakespeare's Finale, by Brustein
… Recent National Medal of Arts winner Robert Brustein, senior research fellow at Harvard and founding director of the American Repertory Theater, will have a staged …
Redefining Obesity
… Alarmingly, the rate of obesity in the United States has tripled during … for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 42 percent of American adults are obese. Globally, more than a billion …
Issue: July-August 2024
Prescription: Music
… Nowadays , no one from Faulkner Hospital bothers Stephen Wright ’64 on Thursday nights. But when he … Orchestra (LSO) in 1993—before he became Faulkner’s chief of medicine and could pick his hours—he kept a pager on his … members still work in healthcare. That doesn’t surprise its president, Lisa Wong ’79, who used to play her …
Issue: May-June 2008
A Renaissance for Medieval Classics
… at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C., has housed one of the world’s greatest collections of material relating to … a collection known as the Arundel lyrics, which comprises love songs, Christmas poems, and ecclesiastic satires, …
Issue: November-December 2010