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… The Corporation Reconfigured The two longest-serving members … from families with incomes up to $47,000. The cost has risen from $11.5 million to $40.2 million through 2012, so …
Issue: January-February 2014
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… Harvard Medical School (HMS) plans to wind down operations of the New England Primate Research Center , in Southborough, … The school cited financial pressures; Carolyn Y. Johnson, of The Boston Globe (who earlier reported on the center’s …
Issue: July-August 2013
Sisters in Basketball
… “At first I was a bull in a china shop,” the winningest basketball coach in Ivy League history was … women.” That evening, Kathy Delaney-Smith, the Friends of Harvard women’s basketball head coach—a position she has … support for other women in the corporate world had surprised her. “You can certainly look at employment …
Education by Office Hour
… The Harvard I know today began in the most unlikely of ways: … seminar. “Oh, that,” he said with a smile, apparently surprised it was the seminar, and not the complexities of …
Issue: July-August 2008
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… 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
Requiescat
… hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." April 22 was the centenary of the birth of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, S.D. '47, leader of those who …
Issue: May-June 2004
A Return to the Beloved Community
… three stories,” said Reginald Dwayne Betts to listeners at the Cambridge Public Library Tuesday evening, at the start of remarks honoring Martin Luther King Jr. A Harvard … is a poet, practicing attorney, and the founder and CEO of Freedom Reads, an organization that builds libraries in …
Two-Term President, Two-Time Poet Laureate
… The annual Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises in Sanders Theatre—in many ways the intellectual center of Commencement week exercises, at least for College seniors … Californian who served two year-long terms as poet laureate of the United States (2008-2010 ), during which she …
A Gut Renovation for U.S. Labor Law
… released today by Clean Slate for Worker Power , a project of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. So, the report urges, the nation’s labor laws need to be … explains, is that the United States faces two linked crises—economic and political—and that neither can be …
Off the Shelf
… Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq, by Bartle Bull ’93 … Press, $35). It’s a safe bet that most Americans’ knowledge of Iraq doesn’t extend beyond Saddam Hussein. Bull, who has …
Issue: January-February 2025
Forecasting Harvard’s Future
… In the second of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) “conversations” on “The Future of … In thinking about how to adapt FAS as a collaborative enterprise and how to organize a Harvard education in light of …
A Leading en Plein Air Painter
… expecting thunderstorms in Rocky Mountain National Park. The young artist had risen early and trekked five miles with a 50-pound pack in hopes of capturing the morning light dancing on the mist from …
Issue: July-August 2024
A New Theory on Longevity
… possible way to increase human life span, has gotten a lot of press lately. Research on rats and mice has shown that reducing their food consumption by 50 percent, while maintaining … for mice also work for men? Lloyd Demetrius, an associate of the department of population genetics in the Museum of …
Issue: November-December 2004
Harvard Names Online Education Leadership
… Updated Friday, March 1, at 9:45 a.m. with membership of HarvardX research committee and guiding principles for HarvardX courses (see below). The University has populated some of the administrative and faculty committees that oversee …
Harvard Entrepreneurs’ Summer Road Trip
… invests in expanding engineering and applied sciences—in the growth of the faculty ranks at the eponymous school, and in such … work, and commerce: seeding and starting new enterprises based on their discoveries. The latter activities are …