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… Academy Members Francesca Dominici Kris Snibbe/HPAC Matthew Langer Mayerson Dana Farber Cancer Institute Among the 75 new U.S. members of the National Academy of Medicine are a dozen from Harvard: professor of medicine …
Issue: January-February 2019
New England Sanctuaries
… In the January-February issue, Nell Porter Brown explores the range of what New England’s retreat centers have to offer , detailing four centers’ very different environments. …
Issue: January-February 2012
A Harvard “As Humane as It Is Humbling”: Morning Prayers
… beginning a new academic year in person with caution about the fraught conditions prevailing in the wider society, … at Morning Prayers in Memorial Church today, the first day of fall-term classes—exhorted the community to exercise its … and his two first-year convocation talks (for the classes of 2024 and 2025) in Tercentenary Theatre yesterday. Matthew …
Emily Rauh Pulitzer Named National Arts Medalist
… Emily Rauh Pulitzer, A.M. '63, received the National Medal of Arts in a ceremony at the White House … Pulitzer is being recognized as a scholar and supporter of contemporary art, particularly, including her role in …
Yesterday's News
… workers begin demolishing Appleton Chapel to make room for the new Memorial Church. 1946 Cambridge celebrates its … for a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert and performances of a pageant, Pillars of Power, in which faculty members, alumni, and …
Issue: July-August 2011
Frances Perkins
… 1904, LL.D. ’29, asked Frances Perkins to be his secretary of labor in 1932, she drove a hard bargain: she would accept … and large-scale public-works programs to help victims of the Depression, along with federal minimum-wage and …
Issue: January-February 2009
Omnia Mea Mecum Porto
… Ronnie Mae Weiss and her husband, Richard Sobol, moved out of their longtime Lexington, Massachusetts, home, where a … simple patio. In the process, they purged about 75 percent of their stuff. “I walk both ways to work, instead of having …
Issue: July-August 2012
Gun Violence: A Public Health Issue
… In the wake of the murder of more than two dozen children and adults in …
Harvard Calendar
… SPECIAL. The tenth annual ArtsFirst festival, offering dozens of student performances of music, dance, and drama, most of …
Issue: May-June 2002
Harvesting Autumn at Ward’s Berry Farm
… Maybe it’s the jolly rotundity, or that splash of orange and cozy look … seasonal produce they sourced from nearby organic enterprises, like Tangerini’s Farm, in Millis, and Langwater Farm, …
Issue: September-October 2022
What Makes (and Remakes) a House
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) , in planning a major renovation of the 12 undergraduate residential Houses, has appointed a …
Issue: July-August 2008
Willing to War
… Past psychological research has shown that when it comes to the question of war, cognitive biases in the way people process … and easy victory. Such overconfidence, explains Renshon, arises from three optimism biases: exaggerating one’s …
Issue: May-June 2007
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Elected Directors Announced
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new elected directors … J.D.-M.B.A. ’04, Menlo Park, California. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Shilla Kim-Parker ’04, M.B.A. ’09, New York …
Mayra Rivera
… Mellon professor of religion and Latinx studies Mayra Rivera was never a fan … is a moment when, especially because of climate change, there’s a need to imagine a world that is ending or changing …
Issue: November-December 2020
One Shot at Hollywood
… ride.” That’s how Alex Molina A.R.T. ’15 describes DASH , the film he recently helped create, currently showing online … rideshare driver during one long, bad night on the streets of Hollywood, California. Things keep getting worse for Milly—played by Molina, the star of the film as well as a producer—who drives for an …