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Judge Extends Block on Trump’s Travel Ban for Harvard’s International Students
… said she plans to issue a decision within a week on whether to impose a longer-term preliminary injunction barring … enrolling international students. On May 22, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it was revoking … Program (SEVP) certification, stripping the University of its ability to host international students. Harvard sued, …
Manhood Reconsidered
… As a professor at Harvard Business School, Robin J. Ely has had her … of experience with how men (who constitute 80 percent of the school’s faculty) conduct themselves in the workplace. … on the two rigs (which were dubbed Rex and Comus) surprised her by how openly they expressed their vulnerability, …
Issue: September-October 2007
John Briscoe, 66, Was Leading Water Security Expert
… John Briscoe, Ph.D. ’76, who advocated for construction of dams in the developing world to enhance economic and social … an obituary in yesterday’s Washington Post . Briscoe held professorships in the School of Engineering and Applied …
A Faculty Meeting “Unlike Any Other”
… The president in an open-collared shirt and pullover. The dean of the College sporting headphones. A peak of 271 … to divest endowment investment holdings of enterprises involved in fossil-fuel production —that global …
Stage One
… Two years ago, Emily Knapp '03 was slated to be the assistant director for a production of Eugene O'Neill's The Great God Brown, which the … lecturer on dramatic arts Marcus Stern, associate director of the Loeb-based American Repertory Theatre. "She did such …
Issue: May-June 2003
Climate Change
… Universities are among the most creative and powerful forces for shaping the … our genuine concern, we must face up to the stark reality of climate change. The scientific consensus is by now clear: … is now. Climate change poses an immediate and concrete test of whether we, as members of a university and responsible …
Issue: September-October 2019
Finding Faith
… Fresh from a UNESCO-funded summer of writing at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Faith Adiele '86 … In Cambridge, she poured her energy into such enterprises as co-chairing the refugee committee of the Phillips …
Issue: November-December 2004
Cushioning Hard Memories
… The more you love a memory," Vladimir Nabokov once declared, … and stranger it is." Certainly we never forget the details of our beloved moments: first kisses, college graduations, our children's births. "That kind of thing," said Nabokov, "is absolutely permanent, …
Issue: July-August 2004
Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson
… Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson, Ed.D. ’22, of Australia was the first woman to obtain a doctorate from Harvard … University. In a long letter to Dean Henry Wyman Holmes of the Graduate School of Education, she cast herself in the …
Issue: May-June 2022
Touching Young Lives
… " Early Learning ," the January-February 2012 cover story, explores how the … about the center's work. See scenes from Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service, a Touchpoints site … … Explore the work of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center and Dr. Berry Brazelton …
Issue: January-February 2012
A Balancing Act
… thrive on adrenaline, but when Nico Maffey ’13 takes the stage as a professional hand balancer and acrobat in the national tour of Pippin , the most important thing he has to find is his …
A Scientific Instrument
… Harvard Medical School, in an historic expansion rivaling the construction of its original white marble quadrangle a century ago, … a waterfall. To the north of the east-west central corridor rises the 10-story research building, packed with the tools …
Issue: November-December 2003
Upside for Downloads
… Last year, pop star Madonna went on the attack in the war over file sharing, the popular but illegal practice of downloading copyrighted music from the Internet for free. In the spring of 2003, she and her record label, Warner Brothers, seeded …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard and Largest Union Reach Tentative Agreement
… After a long negotiation , Harvard and its largest union, the 4,600-member Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), have reached … contract; they had operated without one since the end of June 2012. The new contract provides the typical union …
Can New Drugs Help Millions of Americans with Obesity?
… struggle with obesity, but one drug is poised to change the weight-loss landscape—not only by shrinking waistlines, … and other GLP-1s agonists are now at the center of a growing medical revolution. Originally developed to … and metabolism. They show promise for treating a range of conditions, from cardiovascular disease to …