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President Garber’s Agenda
… During a conversation in his Massachusetts Hall office on a remarkably balmy Halloween afternoon, President … M. Garber was expansive about his academic aspirations for the University he has led on an interim basis since last … he was able to focus on intellectual matters was indicative of the relatively calm campus conditions thus far this …
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 …
Kennedy School Reconstructed
… School unveiled its renovated, reconfigured quarters to the public on December 1. In effect, a new ring of buildings has been inserted within the existing one, and … . … A campus remade in the course of the capital campaign … 54089 … Harvard Kennedy School …
Issue: January-February 2018
Divestment Debate, Overseer Slate
… T he debate over whether the University should divest any investments in … begun nearly a decade ago, has reached a new level of intensity in recent months. In the fall, faculty … to end apartheid in South Africa, and tobacco enterprises. “This danger,” she concluded, “demands that we end …
Issue: January-February 2020
Recruiting vs. Rights
… The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy … who's writing a novel on-line, posted chapters 4 through 12 of Part V ("Harvard—The Fourth Year") on his … member and freelance movie reviewer, debated the value of scholarly film criticism: "Does this kind of criticism …
Issue: January-February 2004
Creating Community, On-line and Off
… The weeks leading up to Thanksgiving were especially busy … who's writing a novel on-line, posted chapters 4 through 12 of Part V ("Harvard—The Fourth Year") on his … member and freelance movie reviewer, debated the value of scholarly film criticism: "Does this kind of criticism …
Issue: January-February 2004
Education for Life
… After three years of inconclusive work on a new general-education component for the College, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) appears to be debating seriously …
Issue: January-February 2007
Tracking Omicron on Campuses
… For many members of the Harvard University community during the pandemic, dropping off a COVID-19 test a few times a week was just an item on …
Harvard Portrait: Peter Suber
… Sweden on a Vespa, and voyaged to Antarctica with a boatful of polar biologists who were conducting a penguin census. … At Harvard, he serves simultaneously as director of the Office for Scholarly Communication (an arm of the … in philosophy on his personal website. The reaction surprised and invigorated him: his experiment of freely sharing …
Issue: January-February 2015
An Icy Amenity
… Photograph by Stu Rosner Dean of the Law School Elena Kagan testified that she decided on the spur of a frozen moment in January to flood the field by Harkness …
Issue: March-April 2004
Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal
… Accepting the W.E.B Du Bois Medal for the late writer and activist … Oprah Winfrey, LL.D. ’13 , recalled what she said were some of the greatest times and memories of her life: sitting at Angelou’s table, eating biscuits. …
Kennedy School Forum Debates U.S. Military Action in Syria
… Whether or not to take military action in Syria was the debate … at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on September 11 as a panel of faculty specialists—including Oman professor of international relations R. Nicholas Burns , Tisch …
Rocks into Gas
… Geologists have long believed that the world's supply of oil and natural gas came from the decay of primordial plant and animal matter, which, over the …
Issue: March-April 2005
Faculty Voices, Round Two
… On January 31, President Alan M. Garber announced the inaugural members of his University Faculty Advisory Council, a two-year experiment announced last November as a means of bringing faculty views to bear on Harvard-wide issues. …
Staging Magic
… In designing 106 costumes from scratch for the musical Finding Neverland, Suttirat Larlarb was … with a fresh visual edge—and convey the explosive magic of the imagination. “You don’t want a museum piece set to … dancing servants, dogs, one mermaid, and a crew of sexy pirates. All contribute to the play’s modern …
Issue: September-October 2014