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Weighing In
… The resignation of President Lawrence H. Summers became grist for a torrent of commentary worldwide, much of it highly political, even ideological. On March 12, in the Sunday Telegraph , Tisch professor of history Niall …
Issue: May-June 2006
Well Done
… The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in … were to be honored on October 16 during the HAA board of directors’ annual fall meeting in Cambridge. Highlights of their many contributions are given below. Peter Bynoe …
Issue: November-December 2008
Radcliffe Fellows for 2015-2016 Announced
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced its … intellectual stimulation to do their best work in ways that often defy expectations and disciplinary boundaries,” … take unexpected risks, and generate new ideas.” Twelve of the new fellows are Harvard faculty members; their names …
Global Kitchen
… A few blocks from Central Square, a cozy jewel-box of a restaurant has quietly served up North African … Baraka Café’s 25 seats can fill up fast. Regulars savor the food and stylish, homegrown décor. Both reflect the roots of Alia Radjeb Meddeb, Baraka’s feisty executive chef and …
Issue: March-April 2014
Edward Snowden Interviewed by Lawrence Lessig
… Law School’s Ames Courtroom on Monday, October 20, Furman professor of law and leadership Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward … via video conference. Using a question-and-answer format, the professor raised issues of institutional corruption and …
Harvard Corporation Revises Its “Composition, Structure, and Practices”
… The Harvard Corporation’s self-review of its operations and … through the new joint committee, which will comprise Fellows, Overseers, and “selected others.” • Strategic …
Pay Dirt in Yard Dig
… hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Five pieces of lead type turned up near Matthews Hall this year, a stop-the-presses flash from the past. They were unearthed by students and faculty of Anthropology 1130: “Archaeology of Harvard Yard.” In …
Issue: July-August 2008
Dunking from Olympian Heights
… There are not many basketball courts in London, nor do … growing up. But having found the game at the advanced age of 14, Fagbenle made her way to the Haringey Angels, one of a score of basketball clubs in the city. The Angels are …
Issue: November-December 2012
"Changed Times"
… This was a year of “changed times,” President Drew Faust acknowledged in her Commencement afternoon address . She had explored the theme two days earlier at seniors’ Baccalaureate … historian, and physicist-turned-public-servant Steven Chu offered two strikingly similar answers late in their …
Issue: July-August 2009
Coretta Scott King Urged Students to “Speak Out with Righteous Indignation”
… The Harvard class of 1968 invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to address them on Class Day, and the … audience, crammed into Sanders Theatre because of heavy rain, heard Coretta Scott King speak of the need …
2021 Harvard Medalists
… At its virtual annual meeting on June 4, the Harvard Alumni Association honored three alumni with … leader and mentor, served on the University’s Board of Overseers from 2009 to 2016, and was a member of the Joint Committee for Alumni Affairs and Development …
Issue: July-August 2021
News Briefs
… November forced it to turn to all-remote learning to finish the fall semester; the Medical School is bringing first-year … international students kept away from Cambridge because of U.S. regulations on enrollment in all-online instruction. … and the United States. Inevitably, renaming questions have arisen at Harvard, too. Witness the Law School’s decision to …
Issue: January-February 2021
Harvard Anthropologist's Book Inspires Oscar-Nominated Film
… The Academy Awards on March 7 will include a nominee in the … by medical anthropologist Kimberly Theidon, associate professor of anthropology. The Spanish-language book Entre Prójimos: …
Brevia
… to press, Ketanji Brown Jackson ’92, J.D. ’96, was awaiting the U.S. Senate vote on confirming her appointment to the … Supreme Court, succeeding Stephen G. Breyer, LL. B. ’64 (profiled in “A Workable Democracy,” March-April 2017, page … clerked in 1999-2000. Jackson is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. More parochially, she is an …
Issue: May-June 2022
Extracurriculars
… Conquer the winter blues by exploring the assortment of activities happening in and outside of Harvard Square, ranging from love stories, classical …
Issue: January-February 2006