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Brevia
… Adams House Exit Judith and Sean Palfrey, both of the College class of ’67, announced in December that they … years, to pursue opportunities in for-profit biotech enterprises. During the past year, she came under criticism for …
Issue: March-April 2021
Educational Activist
… Even though apartheid in South Africa ended more than a decade ago, … Clarke went to South Africa in 1995 to start a branch office for the consulting firm Abt Associates. “In the back of my mind, I had a goal of making a lasting contribution …
Issue: January-February 2009
Technology Scholar
… "Technology" is a chameleon-like word that takes on the tone of its context, especially where government is concerned: technology may be used to facilitate the flow of information to the public and keep us safe from our …
Issue: November-December 2004
A Cancer Pioneer
… The New York Times put a very human face on the hunt for … route to a cancer cure—targeted therapy, the subject of Flaherty's research, or immunotherapy, which seeks to … system against cancer. The series examines the difficulty of balancing a desire for quick action to help sick patients …
Own Goals
… without making matters worse for itself. Yet after handling the pro-Palestinian encampment in the Old Yard from April 24 … without heavy-handed policing), the University’s way of disciplining the participants subsequently was a mess. It … the new and threatening challenges to the academic enterprise in the late 1960s, faculty leaders created the …
Issue: September-October 2024
Life in Counterpoint
… Few have ever faced the choice that Berenika Zakrzewski '04 had three years ago: … path would be Juilliard—what else? Still, though lots of musicians don't take academics seriously, I do; like a lot of people at Harvard, I'm a bit of an overachiever. Now I …
Issue: November-December 2003
Paying Student-Athletes?
… During the last two weekends, madness descended on basketball … madness is taking place behind the scenes. In 2021, a pair of NCAA rule changes allowed student-athletes to transfer freely through a process akin to professional free agency—and to play for their new teams …
A Singular Woman’s Biographer
… It was in March 2008, while working at the New York Times, that Janny Scott ’77 first encountered Stanley Ann Dunham. As part of the paper’s presidential campaign coverage, Scott had … his past,” she recalls, “and I encountered a photograph of Obama and his mother. I was fascinated by the …
Issue: July-August 2011
New Applied Science Degree
… rigorous training in large-scale computation and advanced mathematical modeling can apply this fall for a new master of science (S.M.) in computational science and engineering (CSE) degree at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), University officials have …
Divinity School Launches New Degree Programs
… first new master’s degree program in more than 50 years, the master of religion and public life (MRPL). Coupled with a similarly … Oxfam improved the outcomes of humanitarian responses to crises. Moore hopes the students and Fellows alike will …
Issue: September-October 2021
An American in Paris
… students are venturing abroad, for term or summer study or other experiences, with the College’s encouragement. The first of two reports on such experiences in the “Old Europe,” by … to be shocked—and I was. Many of the most striking surprises came from being plunged into a foreign education …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard's "Lady Di"
… know Diane Jellis, you may have seen her. It's hard to miss the tall blonde with the commanding air ever-present on the sidelines of "Senior Week," reunions, and Commencement: striding in … so successful, well before retirement age? Despite the surprise to everyone else, she says, her decision was three …
Reforming International Finance
… Addressing global crises —pandemics, financial collapses, climate … to support geopolitical and economic stability, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, may not be the best models for future forms of governance. Understanding the origins of these …
Issue: November-December 2023
A Decisive Postseason Victory—and Now a Third (Updated)
… Last April , shortly after she was hired , Carrie Moore, the Delaney-Smith head coach of women’s basketball, held her first workouts with the … Harvard played Towson University in the opening round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), and …
Samuel Stouffer
… During world war ii , when Samuel Stouffer led the research branch of the U.S. Army’s information and education division, the hundreds of surveys he directed on the attitudes of American soldiers …
Issue: March-April 2019