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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
Commencement Confetti
… Where They’ll Work The Crimson ’s senior survey regularly shows the preponderance of graduates who join the workforce opting for jobs in … service, teaching, and so on. This year held to form: half of respondents said they are headed to such roles—and …
Issue: July-August 2024
Brevia
… Service Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross , Leverett professor of mathematics, left his decanal post on August 31. He was … in June, it proscribed direct investment in a third enterprise, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, which is under the …
Issue: September-October 2007
Divisions, and Dylan
… for a seminar. As former Harvard Magazine editor John Bethell recounts in Harvard Observed , the visit coincided … “Discovering that he was being shown out the back way, some of the demonstrators lay down in front of a waiting police car. Others started to rock it. By then …
Issue: November-December 2016
Petition Candidates Qualify for Overseers’ Ballot
… Five petition candidates have qualified for placement on the ballot for this spring’s election of members to the Board of Overseers, the larger but less powerful of the …
S. Allen Counter Has Died
… S. Allen Counter has died after a brief illness. Counter was the inaugural and longtime director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations , and was a part-time professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. His speech …
Brockton’s Enterprising Restaurateurs
… happily serve his signature “green tea shot” with a dose of geography. His regulars, many born or raised in Cape Verde, know about the West African islands, but for others he pulls up … is.” By that time, diners are relaxing into the spirit of the lively spot in downtown Brockton, a city of more than …
Issue: January-February 2023
Attacking Asthma
… In William Golding's Lord of the Flies , the Cassandra-like character called Piggy has … "It was the sound of my own wheezing." Gannon was surprised and somewhat relieved to find out that he was …
"Art Is a Dark Mirror"
… Ellen Harvey ’89 is between shows, so most of her work is packed up, the walls of her studio baring their industrial concrete. … traditional art techniques to comment on “art” as an enterprise, and to point out its potential for multiple …
Issue: May-June 2016
Ashton Carter Returns to Kennedy School
… A shton B. Carter, who concluded his service as the twenty-fifth U.S. Secretary of Defense with the transition from President Barack Obama … the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). He will be Belfer professor of technology and global affairs, and will serve as …
Online Takes Off
… The pandemic’s effects on classroom teaching were immediate and binary: given the dangers of viral transmission, courses last March were hurriedly … adapted to Zoom, and, last fall, more refined versions of online pedagogy appeared (see “School Goes Remote,” …
Issue: March-April 2021
Faculty Filmmakers
… “The people I work with here are the filmmakers I respect … a tremendous asset as a filmmaker,” says Ross McElwee, professor of the practice of filmmaking, whose acclaimed work is …
Issue: November-December 2005
An Acrobat Takes Flight
… “When things are really well-timed between two people, there’s this moment where you’re like, ‘Oh, that was … uses no equipment, just the combined strength and agility of (usually) two people—a flyer (Soltys Morse) and a base (sometimes called a porter)—balancing on top of each other to execute tumbling throws, leaps, lifts, and …
Issue: May-June 2022
Squash Without Walls
… Some say English prisoners invented the game of squash, rapping a ball off the walls of their jail cells. If so, the sport has …
Extracurriculars
… A full slate of events can be found in and around the University this season, ranging from English Restoration … walks, the Kuumba Singers, and ballet theater. This sampler offers something for everyone seeking insight, culture, or …
Issue: November-December 2004