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… H. Schmidt '55 and his wife, Babette, initially retired to their summer home in Cushing, Maine, but after several … vital Brunswick. Their home is within walking distance of the doctor and dentist, the post office, downtown … Street, in East Cambridge. The 150 URC units would not comprise a continuing-care or assisted-living facility, Harris …
Issue: January-February 2005
Elizabeth Bangs Bryant
… 1936, Elizabeth Bangs Bryant had worked at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology for a few decades, and her expertise … spiders, Bryant was busy maintaining and cataloguing the museum’s ever-expanding collections. When a Yankee Magazine editor asked to profile her for their “Smart Yankee” feature, she declined, …
Issue: March-April 2021
Brevia
… Departure Jay O. Light, who was appointed interim dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) in August 2005 and dean the following April, announced on December 2 that he will … titled Bubbles, Panics, & Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s (on display through May 3 and at …
Issue: January-February 2010
Makeda Best
… first photo-book: Brian Lanker’s I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America . (Her second was an … At 16, she was given her first camera—a Nikon 6600, then the fastest automatic on the market—and began taking … time in art school. There’s no framed work, no secret box of prints—just an enduring fascination with the form’s …
Issue: March-April 2018
Nieman Foundation Names Henry Chu as Interim Curator
… The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has named veteran … with its mission “to promote and elevate the standards of journalism.” Chu, who has been the deputy curator at … last July, previously worked as the deputy news editor of the Los Angeles Times and the international editor of …
John Briscoe Awarded Stockholm Water Prize
… The Stockholm Water Prize, known informally as the “Nobel Prize of water,” has been awarded to John Briscoe, visiting professor of environmental engineering at the School of …
A $35-Million Gift to HGSE Launches an Early Childhood Initiative
… With the largest donation in its history, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) will launch a new, $35.5-million early … The gift means HGSE has raised more than $230 million of its capital campaign goal of $250 million, part of the …
Cambridge 02138
… 2011, page 36) lived up to its title until the peroration, when the authors bizarrely observed, “Yet more often than not, the bees actually build the hive: the … faculty ebbs; the number of preprofessional programs rises...schools burnish brands—all without presidential …
Issue: January-February 2012
On Not Going It Alone
… How powerful is the United States , and how should it relate to the rest of the world? Is America a new version of the Roman Empire? … in the United States, but three-quarters of the problem arises outside our borders. Diseases such as AIDS or avian …
Issue: July-August 2006
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
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
Finding a New Footing
… annus horribilis , Harvard continued to grapple with the fallout from the projected 30 percent decline in the value of its endowment assets—and the resulting need to “do … Harvard ”). Beginning in late June, the University laid off personnel. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) working …
Issue: September-October 2009
Harvard to Examine Sexual-Harassment Reporting and Response
… In the wake of the charges of persistent sexual harassment against former …
Harvard Baccalaureate 2014: “Face Outward”
… “These past four years,” President Drew Faust told the graduating class of 2014 in her May 27 Baccalaureate address , have—in … to teach you about facing outward: acting for the sake of a better human community.” In a freshman-spring survey, …
Locked In
… The lingering symbols of this past spring semester are … they organized groups of faculty members to address campus crises that evolved, or deepened, during the year. At the May …
Issue: July-August 2024