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Financial Crises, Faculty Views
… Amid the crises besetting U.S. financial institutions, faculty … and two days later in Sanders Theatre to address the roots of the problem and potential solutions. Among the salient … problems on Wall Street and beyond. … 3662 … Financial Crises, Faculty Views … 1514 … 1517 … Financial Crises, …
Issue: November-December 2008
Centennial Medalists 2016
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
News in Brief
… Changes at the Top The day before Commencement, the Corporation … in Allston,” March-April, page 18). He chaired Duke’s board of trustees from 2013 to 2017, and now performs the same duties at the University of Chicago. For details on these transitions and broader …
Issue: July-August 2023
Smooth Start
… Leaders of this and other campuses wracked by turmoil during the 2023-2024 … down, protestors were biding their time, the intensity of the war briefly declined, or something else changed in … whether a “hostile environment” for Jewish students has arisen on campus—meaning that the schools must determine …
Issue: November-December 2024
Overseer and Elected Director 2023 Slates
… Association (HAA) nominating committee has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own …
My Harvard Education
… you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable…The people who must believe they are … your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me There is a man in front of me and he is talking about the apples he has grown. One …
Issue: January-February 2016
Classics, Old and New
… architectural triumphs this winter: University Hall, one of its oldest buildings, has been sensitively updated and restored, while the Business School's Spangler Center, its newest, … Above left: Each of the building's two entry lobbies rises to a domed skylit ceiling with second-floor overlooks. …
Gun Violence: A Public Health Issue
… In the wake of the murder of more than two dozen children and adults in …
HAA Awards
… were recognized with HAA Awards for outstanding service to the University during the HAA board of directors’ fall meeting. Leila T. Fawaz, Ph.D. ’79, of Cambridge, was a member of the Board of Overseers from …
Issue: November-December 2017
Harvard Calendar
… SPECIAL. The tenth annual ArtsFirst festival, offering dozens of student performances of music, dance, and drama, most of …
Issue: May-June 2002
A Syncopated Life
… The Baccalaureate ceremony is both a blessing and a farewell … for the graduating class. This year, it was also a farewell of sorts to the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, late Plummer … masterful challenging of convention, the element of surprise that makes a punchline funny…the daring application of …
New Grad Student Union Election Will Be April 18-19
… union election will take place April 18 and 19, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced today. The election will replace the results of the contested unionization election that took place in … Read the NLRB’s full election order here . The outcome of Harvard’s first election remained uncertain for more than …
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 …
Greater Boston
… The city’s car-free travel options are truly limitless. The commuter-rail system, for one, offers rides to more than 120 destinations, and typically … bus meets riders and takes them to Crane Beach, or get off at Manchester-by-the-Sea for Singing Beach. Farther …
Issue: July-August 2009
Harvard @ Home
… Those who missed the Alumni College on "The State of the Global Environment" … to Harvard@Home. The daylong conference featured Harvard professors from a variety of specialties discussing the …
Issue: November-December 2003