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“Above All Else, Do Not Lie”
… Ngozi Adichie at Class Day this afternoon, in her soft West African lilt. “In Igbo, it means ‘My personal … who was to introduce her at an event in London, who spelled the name out for herself phonetically, and rehearsed it … told the story at a dinner party,” she continued, “and one of the guests seemed very annoyed that I was laughing about …
Landscape in a Tooth
… A howler monkey, Alouatta belzebul, of South America. The view is through the back of the skull. Photograph by Rosamond Wolff Purcell Who needs …
An Allston Accounting Adjustment
… 2012 financial statements reclassify for this year and last the “administrative assessment” (an annual decapitalization, equal to 0.5 percent of the endowment’s value) from a capital item to operating … [corrected from an expense item 12-3-13] —a different way of presenting about $129 million of funds in fiscal 2011, …
Issue: January-February 2013
Oscar Does a Plié to Natalie Portman
… Natalie Portman ’03, star of the film Black Swan, recently profiled in Harvard Magazine, won the 2011 Academy Award for …
Harvard Headlines: Derek Bok, Ellen Langer, Lawrence Lessig
… papers contained several Harvard-linked items. Here's the roundup: The New York Times Book Review had a review of Derek Bok's new book , The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New …
New Schedule, New Math
… At its regularly scheduled meeting this afternoon, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS): adopted a new, uniform schedule … for classes, beginning in 2018, anticipating the expansion of the campus across the Charles River in 2020; discussed …
Where to Gift Your Grad
… year for students, and graduates deserve a little bit of extra love. Happily, there are plenty of options in and around the Square to help them celebrate …
Issue: May-June 2021
Students for Fair Admissions Loses North Carolina Case
… ruling handed down on October 18 , Judge Loretta C. Biggs, of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, rejected Students for Fair Admissions’ …
Emily Oken's Studies on Nutrition During Pregnancy
… One of the world’s leading experts on nutrition during pregnancy … both at 10 a.m. , she settled on Greek during the semester and chemistry in the summer. Now Hamilton professor of population medicine, Oken had worked on …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard’s Slave Legacy
… “People have this image of Harvard University being an ivory tower, as if it’s separated from the world,” observes Warren professor of American history and professor of African and …
A Just World at Peace
… Before she read a poem written in celebration of Swartz Hall—the just-renovated home of Harvard Divinity School—Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor …
Issue: January-February 2022
Balloting Begins
… The annual balloting for members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard …
Applying AI—How and Why
… focused on AI’s potential to circumvent student learning of fundamental skills such as writing, demonstrations of its applications in fall semester courses suggest that it … hour, an AI system that answers philosophical questions in the manner of Kant (or any other philosopher) in order to …
Issue: March-April 2024
Local Bounty
… For many reasons, many people are joining the ranks of the local-food movement--those bent on … grown and produced regionally. The number and breadth of goods sold at farmers’ markets around New England have …
Issue: November-December 2010
Claudine Gay, President-Elect
… Claudine Gay —dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) since 2018—will … the wake of the pandemic. So, the University science enterprise will require lots of attention—as will the humanities …
Issue: March-April 2023