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Where to Gift Your Grad
… year for students, and graduates deserve a little bit of extra love. Happily, there are plenty of options in and around the Square to help them celebrate …
Issue: May-June 2021
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
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 …
Sciences and Gender
… engineering, according to a report issued in September by the National Academies, not because of a lack of talent or other intrinsic factors, but because of …
Issue: November-December 2006
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. …
SEAS Interim Dean Appointed
… Spaepen is Franklin professor of applied physics and director of the Rowland Institute at Harvard. He previously.... …
Loving Critics
… A t the end of most weekdays during the academic year, I settle into my chair, take a deep … folder. Inside are at least twenty-four hours’ worth of mail addressed to the president—emails and postal mail, …
Issue: November-December 2022
Curriculum Queries
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) devoted much of its last three regular spring business meetings to reports on the undergraduate curriculum. Formal legislation on a new …
Issue: July-August 2005
Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”
… I’ve always found that I thought about things—even from the time I was in grammar school—a little differently,” said … B. Miller ’56 in an interview with this magazine on the eve of his sixty-fifth reunion. “I was never too reluctant to express a different opinion.” In keeping with this ethos of his youth, Miller is the founder, editor, and publisher …
Yesterday’s News
… 1913 Mrs. George D. Widener lays the cornerstone of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library … undergraduates to live in apartment houses. 1938 Members of the Harvard Young Communist League, promoting a peace …
Issue: May-June 2013
Much More about MOOCs
… A newly published, two-year assessment of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) created by HarvardX … impetus for MOOCs at MIT—and at for-profit MOOC enterprises such as Coursera and Udacity—came from computer …
Loeb Classical Library 1.0
… When James Loeb designed his soon-to-be-launched series of Greek and Roman texts at the turn of the twentieth century, he envisioned the production of …
Issue: September-October 2014
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 …
Seriously Funny
… minted Ph.D. in chemistry, went home to Ohio on leave from the navy, he interviewed for a job with the chemical research department of Standard Oil of Ohio, known as Sohio. He had to take a … laughed repeatedly at Frazier’s comic genius might be surprised to know that the man himself has a quiet and ease …
Issue: September-October 2008
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 …