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University People
… Clapham Robert J. Sampson Harvard Medical School Courtesy of Robert J. Sampson Superior Scientists The 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in April …
Issue: July-August 2006
Criminal Injustice
… In early 2014, Alec Karakatsansis, J.D. ’08, used some of the money that he and a law-school classmate had recently … “and sit there and watch and interview people.” One of the courtrooms was in Montgomery. It was a winter …
Issue: September-October 2017
Pending Business: Maths
… The academic year ended with two important matters affecting … very much pending. At its April 4 meeting, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) discussed a reconceived empirical … in General Education, which takes effect in the fall of 2018—and introduced a new Harvard acronym, TwD, for …
Issue: July-August 2017
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
Brevia
… An Eye on Immigration Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums © President and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program has created “Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930,” a Web-based set of 1,800 …
Issue: March-April 2007
Innocent Merriment
… and Arthur Sullivan both were famous in England well before they became collaborators. Gilbert had written 31 of his 75 plays, and Sullivan was doing nicely as a composer of serious music, as conductor of the Royal Philharmonic, as …
An Asia Expert for Arts and Sciences
… The brief, intense search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) concluded May 20, when President …
Issue: July-August 2002
Indie Film Blues
… women directors. Her most recent feature film, Children of Invention ( www.childrenofinvention.com ), about two Chinese-American children left to fend for themselves after their mother is arrested, premiered at the …
Issue: March-April 2010
HAA News
… Local Harvard clubs host numerous lectures and social gatherings throughout the year. What follows is a list of some of the events planned this spring. For further details, …
Issue: May-June 2003
Nitin Nohria to Conclude Business School Deanship
… Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) since 2010, announced yesterday that he will step down at the end of the academic year, concluding a decade of … partner for the first 14 acres of Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus , across Western Avenue from HBS (a …
Running Radcliffe
… President Drew Faust on April 28 appointed Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz to the deanship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study …
Issue: July-August 2008
Curricular Commitments
… Departing Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean William C. Kirby has attempted to set the clock ticking for completing a revision of the undergraduate curriculum, after three years of study. …
Issue: March-April 2006
Brevia
… provide both common spaces and calories. Food vendors on the first floor include Pavement Coffeehouse, Swissbäkers, Bon Me, Blackbird Doughnuts, … largest humanities gift in the university’s history. Enterprise Zone Advances Image courtesy of the Harvard Planning …
Issue: May-June 2018
Harvard Medical School Advances Research with $200-Million Gift
… for basic and clinically applicable research—with the support of a $200-million gift, the largest in its history, unveiled … to support nascent biotechnology and life-sciences enterprises. This report details: the gift; the giver; the HMS …
Squash, Mike Way’s Way
… Harvard's new head squash coach, Mike Way (the subject of the January-February 2011 Harvard Portrait ), … for a good squash game—players also need "energy," a bit of subterfuge, and the shots should "feel good." See how Way …
Issue: January-February 2011