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Admissions Lawsuit: Round Two
… On September 16, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston heard oral … while our country is currently grappling with the dual crises of police violence and the COVID-19 pandemic.” …
Issue: November-December 2020
Government Revokes Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
… Boston has issued a temporary restraining order to prevent the government from revoking Harvard’s ability to host … government’s action stands, the move may prevent thousands of international students from graduating next week. Looking … country. Harvard president Alan M. Garber wrote to members of the Harvard community this morning to “condemn this …
Life On a Tabletop
… Bend, a solo performance by theater artist and puppeteer Kimi Maeda, tells the story of her father, who crossed paths as a boy with the sculptor … War II. (Robert Maeda later became an Asian art history professor at Brandeis, focusing much of his research on …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard’s Slave Connections
… past connections to slavery are hardly well known. The student-inspired Harvard and Slavery Project , dating to … sought to examine those connections. During four semesters of inquiry, according to Bell professor of history Sven … Campuses During this academic year, these issues have arisen on other campuses as well. On April 4, following a …
Cambridge 02138
… A Note to Our Readers This issue of your magazine was laid out on March 16—the day after undergraduates able to leave by the College’s … and cover important biomedical developments as they arise. We ask for your understanding if we encounter glitches …
Issue: May-June 2020
Graduate-Student Unionization
… Following the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) tentative … hearings, much later, or not at all. In April, the hearing officer ruled that Harvard had excluded from its eligible … director. The union has argued that Harvard’s exclusion of some eligible students from the voter list created …
Issue: July-August 2017
Cambridge Scholars
… Four members of the class of 2011 have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2010-2011 academic year. English concentrator Molly …
Issue: July-August 2011
Could COVID-19 Transform U.S. Education?
… Paul Reville , former Massachusetts secretary of education, now directs the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Education Redesign Lab, a research center …
Harvard Medalists
… Avarita L. Hanson ’75 in 1975 founded what’s now known as the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), and has served as treasurer of the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1975, president of the …
Issue: July-August 2022
Yesterday’s News
… 1914 Lionel de Jersey Harvard ’15, the only member of the founder’s family ever to attend the … statue on November 25 commemorating the 310th anniversary of his ancestor’s birth. 1924 In the largest presidential …
Issue: November-December 2019
Iron and Silk
… Half an academic year into his service as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), William C. Kirby … of the curriculum review. Competent advising ought to comprise "reflection and long-term thinking" about students' …
Issue: March-April 2003
Soledad O’Brien ’88 Named Harvard College Class Day Speaker
… and twenty-fifth reunioner Soledad O’Brien ’88 will be the principal guest speaker for the seniors celebrating Class Day, on Wednesday, May 29, officers of the class of 2013 announced late Tuesday. First marshal …
Bioengineering Report Released
… "Bioengineering is the natural next step in the intellectual development of biology, medicine, and engineering...." So began the final report of a University committee charged with developing a plan to …
Shopping Week R.I.P.?
… At its monthly meeting on March 6, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) strongly indicated … shopping week for course selection each semester in favor of some form of preregistration. In an anticlimactic moment, …
Painting with Flashlights
… In 2017, artist Kay Kenny traveled to Arizona in the winter so she wouldn’t have to wait until midnight to … paint with the light in the darkness.” She’s taken hundreds of such nighttime images, also venturing into the pitch-black fields, woods, and farmlands of New England and upstate New York, where she lives. “There …
Issue: July-August 2019