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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 …
University People
… Garrett M. Graff Courtesy of Garrett M. Graff Susan Dackerman Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Crimson blogsphere. Two Harvard bloggers made the news in late winter. Garrett M. Graff ’03, a former …
Issue: May-June 2005
Harvard Corporation Supports President Gay
… The Harvard Corporation sent an email Tuesday morning to the … support for President Claudine Gay’s continued leadership of the University. The statement noted that Gay had apologized for her handling of testimony before Congress, and has committed to …
Tools and Tests
… Your mother has had difficulty walking, and this morning she is … might have ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a disease of the nervous system, specifically of the motor neurons that control the muscles. Without …
Issue: January-February 2010
Theda Skocpol address to PBK
… Working Together to Meet the Public Challenges of This Time Theda … and subsequent rollbacks of hard-won rights and the brutal rise of Jim Crow. Reflect as well on the generation that …
History Minted
… The loss of the coins focused attention on their real value to Harvard. "Made of silver and bronze as well as gold, some of them rank as …
How Paper Crumples
… without ever considering that such a routine act could be of scientific interest. But researchers at Harvard—including … Andrejevic—have spent years studying this very process. They see direct parallels between paper folding and the … facets —the flat, empty spaces bounded by creases that comprise essentially the entire surface area of the sheets. That …
Issue: July-August 2021
Shaping Cities
… was coming to Cincinnati, and it was about time. The I-71 thoroughfare had connected the city to its suburbs … “a catalyst for future economic development and thousands of new jobs in Uptown’s seven Cincinnati neighborhoods,” its … King Drive near the new I-71 interchange, and a mock-up of the Uptown Innovation Corridor, a mixed-use project that …
Issue: March-April 2021
Envisioning Arts and Sciences Anew
… In his annual decanal letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), published February … issue to be addressed, he urges, as the professorial census rises. FAS's physical planning embraces completion of large …
Issue: March-April 2005
Ivy League Announces No Sports in Fall
… The first domino has fallen. The Ivy League announced today … announced a re-opening plan that invites about 40 percent of undergraduates back to campus for the term. “As … in intercollegiate athletics competition prior to the end of the fall semester,” said the Ivy League statement. A …
Academic Freedom and Ethical Limits
… New technologies create controversy. They challenge our thinking, leading to debate and concern. When recombinant DNA was discovered, the city of Cambridge banned all work with the new technology. … human embryonic stem-cell research has compelled a group of Harvard alumni, students, faculty, and staff members to …
Issue: July-August 2004
Extracurriculars
… The University and its environs offer a robust mix of activities this fall, ranging from watching boat races on the Charles River and feasting on bratwurst in the Square to …
Issue: September-October 2005
American Jewish Life After October 7
… Monday marked a year since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, which ignited a war in the Middle East and a wave of pro-Palestine protests on American college campuses. … campus events marked the anniversary, including a pair of discussions at the Harvard Kennedy School and a vigil …
“Learning to See” and Kicking Off Commencement 2018
… Graduating seniors and their entourages gathered in Sanders Theatre this morning … for the 228th Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises, officially kicking off Commencement 2018. This year’s ceremony was a special …
“They Could Not Have Been More Wrong”: Bloomberg and Faust at Harvard Commencement
… Faust and entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66, and newly minted LL.D. ’14 , spoke during the afternoon program following Harvard’s 363rd Commencement … fossil—only after legally defining the species as having arisen on the sixth day of Creation). “There is a world of …