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Raising Voices
… During the University’s traumatic fall semester, several harshly … 5 hearing, characterizing Harvard as a woke cesspool of antisemitism. Anti-diversity activist Christopher Rufo … population.” And, Eisgruber notes, “Standards have also risen on the faculty.” Those who “disparage the excellence …
Issue: May-June 2024
Washington Worries
… Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), who was appointed a vice chair of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team in late November, filed a new version of his Reducing Excessive Debt and Unfair Costs of Education … exceeding $1 billion to use “at least 25 percent of their investment gains to reduce the costs of attendance for …
Issue: March-April 2017
Football 2018: Harvard 52, Columbia 18
… Because Saturday’s clash with Ivy League rival Columbia was the Harvard football team’s final game at Harvard Stadium … Day, the afternoon on which the players from the class of 2019 were honored. (The final home game, against Yale, … tenure didn’t get significant playing time until the middle of this season, had quite a first quarter alone, firing …
Poetic Paschen
… Paschen ’81 certainly grew up in an artistic home. Her mother, Maria Tallchief, was the first American prima ballerina: from 1947 to 1960 the beautiful daughter of an Osage Indian father and a Scots-Irish mother was the star of the New York City Ballet. Tallchief and principal …
Issue: May-June 2011
Football: Harvard 56, Princeton 39
… This was one for the books. On a perfect football Saturday at the Stadium, … the second half and seemed to be cruising to its fifth win of the season. Then, within a span of 10 minutes, a furious Princeton rally cut the Crimson …
Gender and Minority Metrics
… The report from the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity published …
Issue: November-December 2007
Reuning with Radcliffe and Harvard
… The Radcliffe Class of 1963 has made history. Not only were its members the first group of 'Cliffies to receive Harvard degrees, they were also the …
Issue: May-June 2003
African Alumni Reunite
… Founded 25 years ago, the Harvard African Students Association (HASA) celebrated … this March by inaugurating an alumni network composed of past and present HASA members. "It arose out of the need to re-establish and strengthen the professional …
Issue: May-June 2002
Medical Alumnus Wins Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction
… Joining a long and notable list of Harvard-affiliated physicians whose skill with words has enabled them to educate audiences far beyond their immediate circles of patients and colleagues, Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. '00, …
Women, Working
… When Harvard Business School's Baker Library amassed the bulk of its manuscript collection in the first half of the … January. Go to www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes for "Women, Enterprise, and Society: A Guide to Resources." An exhibition by …
Issue: January-February 2002
“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 …
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 …
Israel and Academia
… On March 23 , the London Review of Books published a long essay on “The Israel Lobby,” by Harrison distinguished service professor of political science John J. Mearsheimer of the … . Not to the authors’ surprise, the paper provoked wide responses (initially in the …
Issue: July-August 2006
Brevia
… Peak Professors John Y. Campbell John H. Coatsworth Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Justin Ide / Harvard News Office The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has recognized four members …
Issue: July-August 2006
A Bioscience Portfolio
… Two recent grants to faculties at the far geographic reaches of the University demonstrate the diversity and scale of Harvard's life-sciences expertise. Each also illustrates …
Issue: November-December 2003