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… Welcome Home Each March, on the Thursday before spring break, freshmen learn their … school superintendent since 2001, will be the new Secretary of Education (see “ School CEO ,” September-October 2002, page 88I). John P. Holdren, Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Harvard Kennedy …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard’s Allston Plan Approved by BRA
… The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) voted unanimously … approved Science Center on Western Avenue, said University officials. The nine projects include: an addition to Harvard Stadium that will add indoor seating and office space; a new, larger, basketball gymnasium; a 150- to …
A Surfing Author’s Children’s Book
… a surfing injury. She had stayed out too long on a wave at the beach near her house—riding it in, holding on to the … as she could. “And then the wave starts to break in front of me,” she says, “so I start to hop off the board but it got sucked up the wave face.” The …
Issue: July-August 2021
Gender Gains
… In the wake of last year’s upheaval over appointing women to professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the challenges …
Issue: May-June 2006
Harvard Business School Launches HBX
… learning . It differs in two significant ways from edX, the Harvard-MIT online learning partnership through which HarvardX has offered massive open online courses (MOOCs) from diverse … HBX is pioneering fee-based courses, which hold the promise of significant new revenue streams. The new HBS-originated …
First-year Double-talk
… It is one of the paradoxes of the Harvard experience that the admissions process demands …
Issue: September-October 2002
Supreme Court Rules on Affirmative Action
… The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin , on which it heard arguments last …
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… Animal-Rights Threats Opposition to the use of animals in biomedical research (the subject of this magazine's January-February 1999 cover story) took a …
Al Franken: You Can Call Me Senator
… as junior U.S. senator from Minnesota, he voted against the Gulf War. President George H.W. Bush’s reaction: “Who is that chickenshit?” An equal-opportunity offender, Wellstone was the only Democrat to vote against … Norman Ornstein , resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute , a conservative think tank, helped devise …
Issue: March-April 2012
Harvard Charters Sexual-Assault Task Force
… In the wake of an anonymous undergraduate’s personal account of an unwanted sexual encounter, published earlier this week in The Harvard Crimson and alleging antiquated and insensitive …
Jeremy C. Stein Nominated to Federal Reserve Board
… Safra professor of economics Jeremy C. Stein , a specialist in finance, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Stein …
“A Game of Inches”
… Last September , the members of the Harvard women’s basketball team stood in … the Lions and Tigers for the third straight year. Ahead of Sunday’s rematch with Columbia, how is Moore resetting …
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… Photograph by Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office Lizabeth Cohen Radcliffe’s Changing Roster Radcliffe Institute dean Barbara J. Grosz, who assumed the position on an acting basis in 2007 and became dean the … that she would relinquish the post on June 30. After a year of leave, the computer scientist will resume her teaching …
Issue: July-August 2011
Cambridge 02138
… I have read the comments by various respondents in "Whither Harvard?" … page 52) regarding the issues facing a new president of Harvard, and I presume to make a suggestion. In light of the increasing reality of "globalization" and the "global …
Dorm Decor
… room] will always be haunted by my companions who have been there, by the books that I have read there, by the pleasure … the pain that I have felt there, and by a laughing group of bright, fresh faces, that have rendered it sunny in my … there what College really is. I have learned there one part of the great secret of life." ~ from "My Old Room," by Henry …
Issue: September-October 2002