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Prototyping House Renewal
… Renovation of the 12 undergraduate Houses —likely the College’s highest … —will advance under a plan, announced today by Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith and Harvard …
Borowitz Reports--Topical and Timeless
… on Borowitz Report: [November 18, 2008] Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy Stunning Break with Last Eight Years In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect … over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. Millions of …
Issue: May-June 2009
Jimmy Vesey Looks Back
… More than anything else , he will miss his teammates, the guys he’s shared a rink and a bus and a bunk with for … river at the rink,” says Jimmy Vesey ’16, senior co-captain of the Harvard men’s hockey team. Earlier this month he was … this August as an unrestricted free agent, a move that surprised and rankled Nashville, raised interest from other NHL …
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
… through images from Stradanus’s Nova reperta , a series of engravings representing geographical, navigational, and … to oil painting and printing. For most inventions, the Nova reperta offered a compressed view of each step in the production …
Law School Committee Recommends Abandoning Shield Linked to Slavery
… AFTER THREE MONTHS of deliberation, a committee of Harvard Law School (HLS) professors, students, and alumni … abandoning a controversial shield linked to slavery as the school’s official symbol Friday. HLS’s shield displays …
Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2017
Manufacturing: Willy C. Shih
… An interview with Willy C. Shih, professor of management practice, HBS’s technology and operations management unit. Read the complete article, “Can America Compete?” …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard Arab Weekend
… The Harvard Arab Alumni Association and the Middle East and North African Groups (MENA) at Harvard … on November 18-21. Among the major speakers were Queen Noor of Jordan, who gave the opening speech, and Prince Turki Al …
Issue: January-February 2011
Rogoff Honored for Fostering Financial Security
… The TIAA-CREF Institute has presented its 2010 Samuelson … Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security to Cabot professor of public policy and professor of economics Kenneth … and complex balance sheets of older adults, who will comprise a growing percentage of the population in the coming …
An Asian Tour Reunion
… Fifty years ago this week, they were just touching down in Bombay, having made their way through the southern islands of the Philippines after a flight from Hong Kong a couple of … some barely graduated, came back together on campus to reprise their tour performances with a concert. Then about five …
Harvard Endowment Increases 4.3 Percent to $40.9 Billion
… Highlights for fiscal 2019: •The endowment’s value was $40.9 billion as of this past June 30, the end of fiscal year 2019—an … so the absolute dollar sum distributed to them typically rises more than the percentage change in the per-unit …
An “Older Sister” to Combat Anemia
… It looks like the kind of applesauce squeeze bottle one would find in a child’s lunch box. Twist the top off Kiikter’s cheerful pastel pouch (complete with a …
Issue: November-December 2023
American Jewish Life After October 7
… Monday marked a year since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, which ignited a war in the Middle East and a wave of pro-Palestine protests on American college campuses. … campus events marked the anniversary, including a pair of discussions at the Harvard Kennedy School and a vigil …
“Crossing Boundaries”
… Historian Drew Gilpin Faust, founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS), will … as remarkable a past as this one. And now our shared enterprise is to make Harvard’s future even more remarkable than …
Photographs from Commencement Week
… assignment for Harvard Magazine , Jim Harrison has captured the emotions, traditions, and historic moments at Harvard Commencements for decades. In this most unusual of Commencement years, celebrating the class of 2022 with an in-person graduation, and the classes of …