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Aloian Scholars
… Amanda Fields ’09, of Lowell House and Vista, California, and John Sheffield ’09, of Pforzheimer House and Fayetteville, North Carolina, are this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars. They will be honored at the fall dinner of the Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2008
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
… was how Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach, Baird professor of science, described the oil painting of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin that he and his …
Issue: May-June 2020
Open Roads and Dead Ends on a Native American Reservation
… The Seventh Fire opens with an image of a road in the dark, … documentary’s 71 minutes are largely confined to the town of Pine Point, and its grim sights: houses covered in boards …
Brevia
… George Q. Daley ’82, M.D. ’91, has been appointed dean of Harvard Medical School, effective January 1. He succeeds … an announcement-day conversation in August, Daley stressed the “very dynamic and exciting new curriculum” for current … funds provided to each ladder faculty member annually, will rise from $1,000 to $2,000 for those with past …
Issue: November-December 2016
The Essential Educator for His Time
… What does it take to become a great higher education leader? The role is demanding: leading universities or similar … multiple constituencies, innumerable tasks, complex and often conflicting goals. Today, with higher education under … what we can from exemplars. In this context, an account of the life of the late William (Bill) Bowen, LL.D. ’73, …
Issue: March-April 2024
Trump to Research: Drop Dead
… President Donald J. Trump’s initial spending plan for the fiscal year beginning October 1, “America First: A … and environmental protection. In the succinct view of Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney, “You …
Issue: July-August 2017
Crimson on Capitol Hill: 116th
… The Senate tilts red , the House blue for Harvard degree-program alumni or matriculants in the 116th Congress. The GOP roster now has eight senators … formerly held by John McCain. Her arrival raises the number of Harvard GOP affiliates in the Senate to nine (up three …
Issue: January-February 2019
Readying for a Reckoning
… expert Sara Bleich stepped into a newly created role at the University, as vice provost for special projects, … by the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. This week, Bleich spoke with Harvard Magazine … and how she sees this work progressing. “This is the kind of project,” she said, “that has the ability to change …
Brevia
… Sunpower, Sunshower Solar thermal energy panels installed atop Canaday Hall in July will provide 60 percent of the hot water to Harvard’s freshman dormitories and other Faculty of Arts and Sciences buildings in Harvard Yard. The sun …
Issue: September-October 2010
Newport, Rhode Island
… One of the most beautiful warm-weather routes to Newport is the hourlong water-taxi ride from … a pedicab, or hop on a city bus to explore pretty much all of this summertime hotspot. For totally car-free travel, you …
Issue: July-August 2009
Harvard College Admissions Rate Falls to 5.9 Percent
… College announced today that 2,032 applicants had been offered admission to the class of 2016, entering this August—5.9 percent of 34,302 …
My Zero-Minute Commute to Zoom University
… During my first semester of college, I slept roughly 150 feet from my 10:30 a.m. … high school, I went for a conservative 9:30, leaving plenty of time for a shower and a quick breakfast. As I adapted to new habits of late-night problem sets, the alarm was pushed back to 10:00, then to 10:15. I …
DRAGONfly
… When Harvard curator of fossil insects Frank M. Carpenter dug up this wing in an Oklahoma prairie in 1940, he held a piece of the first evidence that insects had once been gigantic. The …
Issue: November-December 2007
Coming Home
… The house is way too big for two people. It needs to be … clean, and, in general, to ease the increasing burdens of daily life. There's a sense that something's got to … The hope is that as demand for alternative housing options rises, the industry will expand, as it has during the last …
From a Rebound to a Slam Dunk
… and basketball for CBS—for many sports fans, this would be the job of a lifetime. But Brown didn’t achieve professional success without encountering adversity along the …
Issue: January-February 2010