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Martha Tedeschi to Lead Harvard Art Museums
… The Harvard Art Museums has named Martha Tedeschi its new … ’85, who left last July. Tedeschi has spent her entire professional career at the Art Institute of Chicago, arriving as an intern in 1982 and becoming a …
A Musical Education
… ’39 made her stage debut, in Boston’s Jordan Hall, at the age of 40. Her background, as the last pupil of Wanda Landowska, the Polish-French harpsichordist …
Issue: May-June 2005
2021 Harvard Medalists
… At its virtual annual meeting on June 4, the Harvard Alumni Association honored three alumni with … leader and mentor, served on the University’s Board of Overseers from 2009 to 2016, and was a member of the Joint Committee for Alumni Affairs and Development …
Issue: July-August 2021
(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 …
Memory Retrieved
… Novelist and teacher of writing Nicholas Delbanco ’63 explores a box in the attic in one of nine essays, “In Defense of Quotation,” from his new …
Issue: July-August 2005
Faculty Diversity in Historical Perspective
… The 2011 annual report of the office of the senior vice provost for faculty development … summary of faculty composition by school shows few surprises, given the relatively slow growth in appointments …
Orators Three
… Each year, three student speakers address the Commencement crowd in Tercentenary Theatre: the student “parts” that are an essential feature of Harvard’s graduation traditions. Here Harvard Magazine … politics of urban agriculture. Ending up at NYU was a surprise—he expected to play football in college and NYU does …
Studying Zika
… To understand the outbreak of a disease like Zika, and ultimately to fight … must work on multiple levels. There are questions of molecules and chemical processes: how does the virus …
Mineralogical Marvels
… The Harvard Museum of Natural History’s mineralogical collections offer visitors a glorious display of shapes and colors, as the photograph of crocoite in the May-June issue makes …
Issue: May-June 2010
Daytripper
… San Francisco, where I grew up, without a car. A couple of commuter trains snake into the suburbs, but once you break past the edge of the urban sprawl you can pretty much count on stepping …
Issue: March-April 2005
“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
Hervey White
… Hervey White, A.B. 1894, helped transform a tiny village in the Catskills into a famous colony of the arts. A freethinker, socialist, writer, and printer, … for my living as I go. Good advice has never driven it out of me.” After working his way through two years at the …
Issue: July-August 2006
WorldÌs Greatest University Takes Heat
… University Takes Heat Harvard Pilgrim Health Care , the largest health plan in Massachusetts, having experienced … might come the funds to recapitalize the sinking nonprofit? "How about the institution whose name is on the door? … learning takes off and the value of Harvard's "brand" rises for e-commerce uses. Illustration by Nick Thorkelson …
Comings and Goings
… University clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, including Harvard-affiliated speakers (please see the partial list below). For further information, contact …
Issue: January-February 2009
Year One
… The Harvard community learned at least two things about … During a conversation at Massachusetts Hall a couple of weeks after Commencement, Bacow said, “This was a year in … he spoke at forums on the economy and on social enterprises at the Business School; a Kennedy School citizenship …
Issue: September-October 2019