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Amy Wagers
… fellowship at Stanford with Irving Weismann, one of the earliest pioneers of stem-cell research, she became an associate professor of …
Issue: March-April 2019
“One Less Investment Banker”
… farmhouse. Before a dimly lit family altar with images of the Buddha, Mao, and departed kin, two grandparents nudged … and proceeds from special events and social enterprises that employ HIV-affected individuals. With a staff of …
Issue: September-October 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 …
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
Will Spring Education Plans Slip?
… As the coronavirus pandemic threatens public health and … note to the community today, noting that although “some of our Schools have announced that they intend to welcome back increased numbers of students to campus for spring semester” ( notably the …
Convocation 2022: Grow in Wisdom
… College’s newest incoming class was welcomed with a mixture of good wishes and stiff warnings, drawn in part from the troubled national politics of today. It was the first … not just at Harvard but throughout life and you will be surprised by the number of friends you will acquire, people …
A Potter’s Practice
… In a quiet corner of Harvard’s ceramics lab in Allston, buzzing with activity … potter’s wheel sits at her elbow, and several large buckets of clay, each a different shade of red, line the wall behind her. Nearby, a set of shelves hold other …
Fellows Three
… A day before Commencement , the Harvard Corporation elected three new members , with the consent of the Board of Overseers: Lawrence S. Bacow, M.P.P.-J.D. ’76, Ph.D. ’78; …
Issue: July-August 2011
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
A Sister’s Plea for Her Brother’s Freedom
… in solitary confinement in January 2019, Ekpar Asat cut the nails of fellow detainees in a Xinjiang concentration camp for … lives in the United States and is fighting for the release of her brother, a political prisoner of the Chinese …
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 …
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, …
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
It’s Academic
… A presidential search is a courting ritual: the Corporation tries to figure out what it wants … generate a common understanding about an agenda: think of it as a prenup. Ignoring the intimate details, here are … should increase, for reasons ill (the term bill now rises about 4 percent yearly, or $2,500) and good (the …
Issue: September-October 2017
HAA Reviews Classes
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is reorganizing the way … results were to be presented at the annual spring meeting of HAA directors on April 15. “This is not a ‘gotcha’ game of ‘How much money do you raise?’” says Timothy P. McCarthy …
Issue: May-June 2011