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Board of Overseers and HAA Candidates Finalized
… The University has announced the finalized 2025 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association elected … Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D. ’87, president and CEO of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, has withdrawn …
Addition by Subtraction
… Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the … have been somewhat eclipsed by the larger research enterprise." … Harvard undergraduates would be much freer …
Issue: July-August 2004
Newfangled Networking
… Photomontages by Flint Born Some people live at the technological vanguard. They operate their tie racks by … Their stereos have a setting that can make the sound of rushing water and toucans. Their cell phones- cum … "profile" by answering the sorts of questions that might arise if Truman Capote had written the census. You report …
Issue: November-December 2004
In Egypt, Doors Closing
… In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Change ’91 explored the shift of millions of Chinese women from an age-old rural life into the global …
Issue: May-June 2024
Encouraging Harvard to Resist
… has been updated to include reactions to Harvard declining the federal government's demands. This spring , federal … University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestine campus protests who holds permanent U.S. … hospitals. Throughout the past month, several groups of Harvard alumni and faculty members have written and …
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
Engineering Renewed
… Celebrating its own nifty bit of reengineering, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), elevated from …
Issue: September-October 2007
Out and About
… As winter is nudged out by the first warm days of spring and the refreshing sight of a … cozy retreats, and festive public occasions that comprise some of the reasons we cherish New England in the …
Issue: March-April 2008
Combining Art and Science to Fuel Water’s Future
… Joachim Cohen would love to have the product he helped design this summer—a red-balloon … to remind users to conserve water—show up in millions of kitchen sinks one day. But even if that doesn’t happen, the challenge of combining engineering and art to put a new spin on …
Academic Workers Rally for Union Recognition
… A week after publicly announcing their intention to form a union, non-tenure-track faculty … campus. More than 100 people turned out, and amid chants of “When we fight, we win!” and “Harvard works because we … since 2010, the number of non-ladder faculty members has risen by 44 percent. “Folks are spending longer in these …
Hanging Tough
… FieldTurf surface, this year’s football team seems weatherproof. Unfazed by a rainstorm that intensified as the game … Coach Tim Murphy, whose squads have defeated Brown in 10 of the last 12 encounters, saw this one as a moment of …
Issue: November-December 2011
In Memoriam
… The staff of Harvard Magazine wish to express their sorrow at the loss of the following alumni in the terrorist attacks of …
Issue: January-February 2002
Yesterday’s News
… 1924 In a likely first for Harvard, mother and son Martha Brown Fincke, M.Ed. ’24, and C. Louis … well rep resented in the Summer School: J.R. Brewster ’25, of the Harvard Film Service, offers for the first time a course in the development of …
Issue: July-August 2019
Seriously Goofy
… TV was bad for her. During a Jeopardy broadcast, Chee’s mother had her count how many times producers cut to different … a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC, her fear of television has long faded. Now she often appears herself, mostly on the recurring segment “What …
Issue: July-August 2020
On Readers’ Behalf
… four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2021, and to confer a … for these prizes.) Hanna Rose Shell Photograph courtesy of Hanna Rose Shell The awards for distinguished writing … to Hanna Rose Shell ’99, Ph.D. ’07, JF ’10, an associate professor at the University of Colorado. She proposed and …
Issue: January-February 2022