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Honoris Causa
… honorary degrees at Harvard's 352nd Commencement. In the absence of a University marshal, Provost Steven Hyman introduced honorands to the Commencement audience. In order of presentation, this year's honorands were: Donald E. …
Issue: July-August 2003
This Land Is Your Land
… Last year the nonprofit Trust for Public Land (TPL) released a study on transforming a 22-mile loop of largely abandoned railroad tracks and land around the heart of Atlanta into a series of connected parks with …
Issue: July-August 2006
"I Do Not Abide"
… I studied for my first set of college finals in Harvard Law School’s student center. … that unfamiliar place, because I wanted to feel invisible. The architecture of Wasserstein and the adjoining Caspersen Student Center …
Issue: May-June 2016
Regearing Ph.D. Education
… The acronymically burdened final report of the GAGE working … a secular change in admissions: science enrollments have risen from 905 in 2009 to about 1,050 in recent years, in …
Issue: January-February 2024
Tax Collection and Civil Society
… Around the world , tax receipts in low- and middle-income countries … people’s willingness to pay. Absent a strong culture of civic participation, policymakers need to find ways to … reported that the “going rate” for bribe payments had risen. “We forgot that the tax collector is living in the …
Issue: January-February 2017
Avant-Garde Incubator
… The blip festival may be unfamiliar to you, but for lovers … A weekly e-mail and the website keep audiences apprised of what is coming up, as do pieces in the magazine …
Issue: March-April 2007
Yesterday’s News
… 1930 The Harvard Engineering Society enjoys an illustrated address on the building and running of the first vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River from … readers to help the University Archives by clipping news of Harvard men, particularly from papers outside the Boston …
Issue: March-April 2020
Fried Eggs and Bacon
… Illustration by Rick Stromoski Librarians tell of a great diversity of items used as bookmarks by library patrons and later … photographs abound. Paper money is not a rare find, and there's the occasional payable check. Norma Jessop, special …
Crimson on Capitol Hill
… Mitt Romney, J.D.-M.B.A. ’74; and Jill Stein ’72, M.D. ’79. The incumbent kept his seat, but on Capitol Hill, a larger … in the House. That body will contain 42 alumni (graduates of or matriculants in a degree program at the University), … Those 42 members are joined by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, RI ’02, Democrat of Massachusetts, …
Issue: January-February 2013
Judy Budnitz: Flying Leaps
… In Nice Big American Baby , the newest collection of short stories by Judy Budnitz ’95, … the uncertain boundary between them. “Flush” tells of a mother (with a mysterious ability to disappear) and her …
Issue: March-April 2007
Researchers Identify Autism Genes
… Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Broad Institute have identified six … role in autism. Their study appears in today's issue of the journal Science . The Boston Globe 's White Coat … families in which cousins had married and the incidence of autism was high. Genetic analysis showed missing DNA in …
Chapter & Verse
… Christopher Monson seeks the author of the truism, "The rectangle is the beginning of aesthetics." Dale Fink would welcome a verifiable …
Issue: November-December 2004
Head Booter
… Grinning, the new head coach of women’s soccer, 29-year-old Stephanie … agree.” But Erickson’s approach to the game is clearly that of an attacker—offense, aggression, scoring. “I like to …
Issue: September-October 2005
A Bold Business Agenda
… disadvantages upon assuming his responsibilities as dean of Harvard Business School (HBS)on January 1, 2021: taking office in the middle of an academic year, and amid the pandemic. He … and so is fully aligned with the role of private enterprise. Equally important, he continued, “We need to develop …
Issue: March-April 2022
Vote Now
… new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots, mailed … be announced at the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day, May 26. All Harvard-degree holders, … ’71, M.B.A. ’74, of Baltimore, former chair and CEO, Enterprise Community Partners. Carl J. Martignetti ’81, M.B.A. …
Issue: March-April 2011