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Harvard Corporation’s Agenda
… conversation this afternoon, William F. Lee, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, reviewed the progress of the … enable medical research. Participants include local enterprises like Vertex, Harvard provost Alan Garber, MIT, …
Disruptive Creations
… In the video called Day Shift, a security guard sits in a small office, watching a monitor that shows the room she’s in. … feel I’m looking at my own handwriting. The words may surprise me, but it feels familiar.” Her art is anything but …
Issue: November-December 2011
David Miliband Delivers Kennedy School Commencement Address
… David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), addressed the Kennedy School’s graduating class of 2015 and their families in Cambridge’s John F. Kennedy …
Chapter & Verse
… Wegener hopes someone can supply an earlier source for the remark "[I]t is often the higher nature that yields, because it is the most … A Country Doctor. Janice Weiss would like the source of the line, "Why do we feel so little at home in the world, …
Issue: March-April 2004
A Rebel with Numerous Causes
… It was November 1966, and Carl Pope '67, stationed in front of Quincy House, was about to get one of his first tastes of political activism. Pope, now executive director of the Sierra Club, the country's oldest and largest …
Issue: July-August 2002
Yesterday’s News
… 1917 With the country at war, Harvard’s Committee on Military Affairs … “Rather than enlist as a private, try to qualify as an officer…or as a specialist.” Universities, notes the … with special training “above the ears.” 1927 The Faculty of Arts and Science implements a new academic schedule with …
Issue: March-April 2012
Human Rights: Inalienable, Unfulfilled
… In December, Harvard commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, promulgated in the aftermath of World War …
Issue: March-April 2009
Reardon to Retire
… John P. “Jack” Reardon ’60, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA)—known for diplomacy, … his long University career—will step down at the end of June. Hired in 1965 by another renowned Harvard veteran …
Issue: March-April 2014
Sally Donahue
… In a job where the workload is steadily expanding—a record 35,000 … to Harvard College last year—Sally Donahue, director of financial aid at the College and senior admissions … two or three times, runs five miles, and on three mornings rises at 4:15 to drive from Duxbury to row at Union Boat …
Issue: September-October 2011
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 …
Janet Yellen Talks Policy and Inequality at Radcliffe Day Celebration
… Inequality —in wealth, race, gender, domestically and across the globe—weighed heavily in the minds of this year’s Commencement speakers. It seemed fitting that … honoring Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, the recipient of this year’s Radcliffe Medal, and one of today’s most …
Saluting the 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 …
Samantha Power and Libya Policy
… The New York Times reports that Samantha Power, J.D. '99—former executive director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights … involvement in Libya. Read Jennifer Leaning's review of Power's acclaimed book, "A Problem from Hell": America …
Harvard Headlines, from Romantic to Grim
… National media outlets have been covering the grim story of a University of Alabama neurobiologist who allegedly shot and killed …
Reengineering Arts and Sciences
… Far from the fall-semester headlines about Harvard, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) pursued ideas across its … First, he said, a “degree of frustration” had arisen in the relationship between centers (those focused on …
Issue: March-April 2024