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Martin Nowak Sanctioned for Jeffrey Epstein Involvement
… members, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in the departments of mathematics and organismic and evolutionary biology, and the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay announced …
Overseer and Director Candidates
… Ballots (mailed out by April 1) must be received at the indicated address by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on May 15 to be counted. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote …
Issue: May-June 2018
FAS Dean Details $220-Million Budget Gap; Working Groups to Address "Reshaping" Academic Activities
… April 15, 3:00 p.m. At a "town hall" meeting in Sanders Theatre on the afternoon of April 14--held in place of the regularly scheduled … is able to do in its core academic and intellectual enterprise. Passively awaiting better economic conditions is not …
Dancing “Makes Us More Alive”
… In primitive cultures throughout the world, dance brought communities together in a common … and gender identity. They taught “our young the meaning of sexuality as they entered adulthood,” he said. “Dancing sanctified our space. It could heighten our sense of being alive by making us one with the very ground we …
Issue: November-December 2011
Missing Man
… William R. Crout, S.T.B. '58, A.M. '69, founder and curator of Harvard's Paul Tillich Lectures, writes as follows: "The article about Enterprising Women, the exhibition … on the display as Lydia Pinkham Gove, granddaughter of the founder and 'the First Woman to fly across the United …
Issue: May-June 2003
From Lonely to Alone
… Until the night before I left for winter break my first year, … sylvan bliss. But that night, Harvard gave up another side of itself: its loneliness. I could not sleep. The day had … that I could not bring head to bed. In fact, a number of us were sleepless, enjoying the few hours of time spent …
Rashida Jones ’97 Named Class Day Speaker
… Comedic actress Rashida Jones ’97 will be the principal guest speaker for Harvard College seniors … 25. She was chosen and invited to speak by a subcommittee of eight class marshals, who considered speakers suggested by classmates as part of a senior-class survey. “I am truly honored to come back …
Up and Down with Harvard Skiing
… upheaval was tearing apart Chile, Peter Carter, coach of the Harvard Ski Team, found himself with an automatic pistol … that skiing for Harvard in those days could have surprises. In post-dinner remarks, Carter, a retired Vermont …
A Student in Beijing
… Thousands of bicycles. Ubiquitous laundry lines. Hard beds and squat … slips of paper with red stamps--all assaulted by dust from the Gobi desert and a coal-induced haze. Many Western … (If you take more than 32 showers a semester, the cost rises to 4 renmenbi, so most students take only one or two …
For Sciences and Art
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is in the throes of a major, multipurpose building boom, as shown …
Issue: January-February 2006
Distance Learning @Harvard.edu
… New technologies, changing demographics, and the emergence of richly funded, Internet-based e-learning … in the country. The school has since created an enterprise-wide system that supports all its activities, from the …
Sarah Ganz Blythe New Art Museums Director
… Sarah Ganz Blythe , deputy director, exhibitions, education, and programs at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (RISD), has been appointed Cabot director of the Harvard Art Museums effective August 12, interim …
HIID Denouement
… The federal lawsuit concerning the conduct of the Harvard … investments in Russian securities and start-up enterprises by them, family members, and associates. The article …
Issue: March-April 2006
Quincy House Renovations on View
… Harvard will embark on its first test project in renewing the 12 undergraduate Houses —a long-term undertaking … more than $1 billion and to be funded through a combination of philanthropy and University investment. At Old Quincy, … try out previously articulated design goals—elimination of walk-through bedrooms, creation of new single bedrooms …
Is There an App for That?
… The Lost Generation. The Greatest Generation. Generation X. … digital age really different?” asks Howard Gardner, Hobbs professor of cognition and education. Six years ago, he and …
Issue: November-December 2013