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Former Crimson Star Spearheads New Soccer League
… For a child raised in the United States, Charles Altchek ’07 had an unusually soccer-focused upbringing. The son of a French mother, he spent his summers playing soccer in … to Harvard, where he earned back-to-back Ivy League Player of the Year awards in 2005 and 2006 (the first player to do …
Behind the Scenes: Caring for the Caregivers
… Associate editor Lydialyle Gibson examines the role of the “Invisible Second Patient.” When I was in … caregivers for loved ones with dementia. (It’s no surprise this is a common experience: right now, more than seven …
Hume, Heaney, Harvard—and Peace in Northern Ireland
… If only because politicians frequently quote them, you’re likely familiar with poet Seamus Heaney’s … lines about the too-rare possibility that “justice can rise up, / And hope and history rhyme.” President Joe Biden, for one, has often cited the poem from which they come, including in the …
The End of the Ivy League?
… With one minute left in Harvard’s last men’s basketball game of the 2023-2024 season, sophomore Chisom Okpara drove toward … the basket, leaped, and released the ball. It clanked off the rim back into his hands. On the second attempt, he …
Issue: November-December 2024
Centennial Medalists
… The Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2023
Radcliffe and Other “Shared Interest Groups”
… Among the University’s new Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) is the fledgling Alumnae and Friends of Radcliffe College, led by Ellen Gordon Reeves ’83, … It is open to women as well as men from any class and offers alumni “another way to connect to each other, to …
Issue: January-February 2007
Faculty, Family, Diversity
… In her first annual report, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) senior advisor to … results in recruiting female faculty members, and some of the real obstacles to effecting change in the composition …
Issue: January-February 2007
Reframing American Art
… In his curatorial debut at the Harvard Art Museums, Horace D. Ballard moves the dial back on the origins of American art. The 26 paintings in “From the Andes to the … Spanish Empire” (through July 30) focus not on influences of early Jamestown or the arrival of Puritans at Plymouth …
Issue: May-June 2023
Samuel Williston
… When Samuel Williston, A.B. 1882, LL.B.-A.M. ’88, died at the age of 101, Time magazine took notice, describing his enormous … the contracts treatise still lands him on lists of the most widely cited legal scholars. Time also discussed …
Issue: January-February 2006
FAS Dean Outlines Preparations for Loss of Federal Funding
… At the last regular faculty meeting of the 2024-2025 academic year on Tuesday, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi Hoekstra articulated what …
A Woman in Science
… In my first year of doctoral studies in England, a group of colleagues and I gathered at the pub after work one evening, along with some …
Issue: September-October 2006
Yesterday’s News
… 1922 Despite the belief of many alumni that “one does not advertise one’s … an Associated Harvard Clubs committee recommends repeal of the rule forbidding photographers in the Yard on …
Issue: May-June 2022
Doctors Abroad
… Abkowitz Crawford '80 have practiced medicine all over the world. The orthopedic surgeon and the internist are two of several thousand American health professionals who have spent four- to six-week stints …
Issue: January-February 2003
World’s Best Blogger?
… It was noon in Washington, D.C., when the shooting began in Tucson. Across the country, reporters and media executives rushed to cover the story of the gunman, the Congresswoman he shot at close range, and … professional admiration for the Dish as an editorial enterprise,” Hendrik Hertzberg has blogged. “It’s a kind of …
Issue: May-June 2011
“Ukraine Today, Taiwan Tomorrow?”
… continues its war in Ukraine, many have wondered about the potential consequences for Taiwan. Could China be … and strong Western response discourage a reining in of Taiwan? For Steven Goldstein, emeritus professor of government at Smith College and associate of the …