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Excavating 1968
… classicist Richard Thomas was telling a sold-out crowd at the Brattle Theater last Wednesday evening, before the lights dimmed for the premiere screening of Underground 68 —a film that emerged from one of those strange emails. After Thomas’s Why Bob Dylan …
Kathy Delaney-Smith’s Final Act
… In November , after her team thrashed Northern Illinois 70-53 in its home opener, Friends coach Kathy … “I’m not thinking about that,” the coach responded. “I kind of forget it’s my last year.” Though seemingly a deflection, … and contending with extraordinary challenges on and off the court. This has led to a seesaw campaign, but if the …
Emily Oken's Studies on Nutrition During Pregnancy
… One of the world’s leading experts on nutrition during pregnancy … both at 10 a.m. , she settled on Greek during the semester and chemistry in the summer. Now Hamilton professor of population medicine, Oken had worked on …
Issue: March-April 2022
Judge Orders NIH to Restore Grants
… A federal judge this week ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to restore at least … research funding—although it is likely that only a fraction of Harvard’s cancelled grants will be directly affected by …
Jason Segel and Claire Danes Win Hasty Pudding Honors
… Hot on the heels of celebrating an Oscar nomination (Best Song) for his most recent film, The Muppets , actor Jason Segel has been named Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, joining actress Claire Danes , who was named …
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
Undergraduate Overseer
… The newly merged offices of dean of Harvard College and dean of undergraduate … his newly consolidated decanal duties had come as a surprise, Gross nonetheless maintained in an interview in late …
Issue: July-August 2003
Faculty Seeks $100-Million to $130-Million Cost Cuts, Slashes Searches
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) needs to cut its … and nonunionized staff; canceling more than two-thirds of the currently authorized searches for new professorial …
Of Coffee and Cryptogamic Botany
… On November 1, the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany celebrated its … Cryptogamic botany, for the uninitiated, is the study of spore-producing plants—organisms that turn out to have an …
Financial Crises, Faculty Views
… Amid the crises besetting U.S. financial institutions, faculty … and two days later in Sanders Theatre to address the roots of the problem and potential solutions. Among the salient … problems on Wall Street and beyond. … 3662 … Financial Crises, Faculty Views … 1514 … 1517 … Financial Crises, …
Issue: November-December 2008
A Sensitive Census
… The revelation last autumn that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) had made offers of tenured professorships to only four women during …
Issue: September-October 2005
Resolve
… I have responded to many outpourings of disappointment and anger during my time in higher education, but the reaction to the events of January 6 was exceptional. … that they will explain and defend their choices as need arises. Our goal should always be engagement. Like colleges …
Issue: March-April 2021
Roger Fu
… In the year and a half between college (at Harvard) and … Roger Fu ’09 lived in an isolated village in the mountains of southern Chile, learning to speak Mapuche with his … what’s in the sky, where everything came from—it’s part of the human need.” For him, too: now Loeb associate …
Issue: May-June 2023
Picking Up a Hobby
… William Blake saw “a World in a Grain of Sand.” Stan Munro saw the Taj Mahal in a toothpick—or, more precisely, thousands of toothpicks stuck together with Elmer’s Glue. He also …
Issue: November-December 2015
A Kindle Connection
… " What applications might they suggest, William A. Sahlman asked his students, for … could be charged to form changing texts without the bother of paper and printing? The class snapped to attention, and a swarm of ideas buzzed down from the semicircular banks of seats in …