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Comings and Goings
… Local Harvard clubs organize a number of lectures and social events. What follows is a list of some of the gatherings planned. For further information, contact the …
Issue: January-February 2002
Cambridge 02138
… (January-February, page 69), reviewing Michael J. Klarman’s The Framers’ Coup. The limits of the available evidence—about 90 percent of the actual words of the debates at the Convention are …
Issue: March-April 2017
SEAS Dean Murray Appointed to BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Commission
… his intention to appoint physicist Cherry A. Murray, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, to the seven-member …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Vic Kennard ’09
… Had COVID-19 not hijacked the Ivy football season, among so many other activities, the … take a deep dive into antiquity, this time to the season of ’08. 1908. Great (Gridiron) Performances Missing … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Consciousness, and a Cure?
… School (HMS) researchers have identified a specific class of neurons that help synchronize activity in the cortex, triggering brain waves characteristic of consciousness, perception, and attention. The findings, …
Harvard on Housing
… has pledged financial support for affordable housing in the two cities. At a news conference held November 10 before … mayors, state representatives, city councilors, and leaders of nonprofit-housing groups, President Neil L. Rudenstine … double the national average, and that rental rates have risen 64 percent in Boston in the past three years (to …
A Robotic Fix for Heart Failure
… Harvard scientists announced today that they have developed a robotic device made from soft, biomimetic materials that could one day restore the … demonstrated in Yorkshire pigs, represents a pioneering use of soft robotics internally, although a great deal of …
Historic Henley
… Even given the storied history of Harvard crew, it was an unprecedented day. On Sunday, July 7, the final day of the Henley Royal Regatta in Henley, England, Harvard won …
Issue: September-October 2002
Sweet Sweat
… Public baths are an ancient tradition. Turks have the hammam, Russians have banyas , and Japanese, their … and deeply relaxing. “You sweat out all the impurities of the work week, you open and shut your pores; it just … the whole day together. And you disconnect from the rest of the world.” The property sits at the end of Suomi …
Issue: July-August 2016
“Coding for All”
… With schools more eager to welcome coding in the classroom, some advocates now push to make it a … Need to Learn Programming, Yasmin Kafai, Ed.D. ’93, of the University of Pennsylvania, urges schools add on to the traditional “3 …
Issue: March-April 2015
“One Community, One Harvard”
… Standing alone on a Nantucket beach during a spectacular sunrise, Harvard Alumni Association president John West, M.B.A. ’95, tilted his iPhone camera to share the stretch of golden sand and blue Atlantic Ocean with viewers of his …
Issue: September-October 2020
(More) March Madness
… five consecutive Ivy League championships from 2011-2015, the Harvard men’s basketball team twice participated in a one-game playoff to decide who would receive the league’s automatic bid … to the NCAA tournament, it will again have to win in a playoff format: the Ivy League announced today that beginning …
Vision and Justice
… Eight months into the Civil War, in December 1861, Frederick Douglass … and reformers are all picture-makers—and this is the secret of their power and of their achievements,” Douglass said in … equity and justice in America.” As part of this enterprise, one of her projects included guest-editing a 2016 …
Issue: July-August 2024
Underwriting Public Service
… A $10-million gift of funds for current use, to be expended during the next five years, has bolstered the Kennedy School of … an exchange of banal pleasantries, Summers said, he was surprised to find himself questioned on technical points of …
Issue: November-December 2004
Aloian Award Winners
… Seniors Kathryn Walsh of Adams House and Roland Yang of Kirkland House received the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) annual David ’49 and …
Issue: January-February 2014