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Final Clubs, Continued
… The First Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting of the year, on October 3, heard a news-filled annual report …
Issue: November-December 2017
Cherry Murray Steps Down as Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean
… Cherry A. Murray , dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) since … of those collaborations are not yet finalized). The surprise announcement comes as SEAS— established as a …
Geology Intersects Biology
… Packing the Earth’s 4.6-billion-year history into a two-foot-by-three poster—roughly three-quarters of a billion years per square foot—is no easy task. Yet … up to do just that with “Earth Evolution: The Intersection of Geology and Biology”—a graphic display (opposite) of how …
Issue: September-October 2013
Cultural Education
… morning, Kiahana Brooks ’10 greets passersby in Lugisu, the local language: “ Mulembe .” ("Good morning.") As … Some will spend all day waiting to be seen; this is part of the experience of going to a clinic in many parts of Africa, but Beatrice …
Claudia Jones
… Next to the enormous bust of Karl Marx in London’s Highgate Cemetery lies a small stone marking the ashes of a remarkable woman: Claudia Jones. Born in Trinidad, she …
Issue: September-October 2020
Lorenzo Tañada
… “Have you known how it feels to be tear-gassed?” the 86-year-old former senator shouted at police chiefs and … LL.M. ’28, had joined what he called “the parliament of the streets,” marching against the antidemocratic rule of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and the regime’s …
Issue: November-December 2020
Harvard Confers Seven Honorary Degrees
… The coronavirus pandemic has understandably overturned many beloved Harvard traditions. The celebratory hoopla of Commencement and reunions was reduced to an online … up across the American civic landscape, it attributed the rise of resentments among people who felt they were fairly …
Justice Ajogbor Holds Court
… Last December, with just under four minutes remaining in the second half, the Harvard men’s basketball team trailed … a basket, rushing down the court for a fast-break layup off Ajogbor’s block. In that moment, playing against a top-five team in one of college basketball’s iconic arenas, Ajogbor dictated the …
Scientific Stardom
… skyward, he had already begun to burnish his reputation on the ground with another invention: a geometric and military … roots and compound interest. His compass became “a tool of power,” says professor of the history of science Hannah Marcus: it turned …
Issue: March-April 2025
Harvard Art Museums To Require Vaccination or Negative COVID Test
… Today the Harvard Art Museums announced a new public-safety … effect September 28, which will require visitors to show proof of vaccination or documentation of a negative COVID-19 test …
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 …
On Firmer Footing
… The good news is that “Harvard’s finances ended the year in … during the pandemic, resulting in an operating surplus of $283 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, … $410 million in the prior year. But that was a positive surprise: the contraction followed an 18 percent decline in …
Issue: January-February 2022
Football 2017: Harvard 6, Penn 23
… at Harvard Stadium, it was a blustery 29 degrees at kickoff. The frigidity of the weather would be matched by that of the Harvard …
Yesterday's News
… from Harvard, Princeton and Yale" indicates that the Volstead Act seems to have driven many students from the "comparative moderation of the last decade," the Bulletin' s editors report that "the testimony of the College officers and of the police and our own …
Issue: November-December 2003