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Athletics Director Robert L. Scalise will Retire in June
… Nichols Family director of athletics Robert L. Scalise will retire at the end of this academic year, dean of the Faculty of Arts and …
Long-Term Investing, Short-Term Thinking
… telecommunications equipment have something in common: they are in constant need of repair and upgrade. But who wants to plan and pay for … projects? Likewise, the slow but inexorable pace of rising seas caused by climate change threatens coastal …
Issue: July-August 2019
Kathy Giusti to Address HBS Graduating Class
… Kathy Giusti, M.B.A. ’85, founder and CEO of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), will address this year's imminent graduates of Harvard Business School as Class Day speaker. She founded …
Owl, Pussycat
… May 12, 2012 , the bicentennial of the birth of the English artist, illustrator, and author Edward Lear, …
Issue: July-August 2012
Erin McDermott Announced as Harvard’s First Woman Athletic Director
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay announced this afternoon that Erin McDermott will become the University’s new Nichols Family Athletic Director, the … held the position since 2001. “From the first moments of my conversation with Erin, I knew that I had found in her …
A “Players’ Coach”
… When the final buzzer sounded last November in the game that won … in the two seasons before Minnis came, the team won a total of 12 games—while losing 29. Back then, Minnis was a club-team coach in California, and although he often sent players on to the Ivy League, it was almost never …
Issue: March-April 2017
First Fellow's Farewell
… Concluding 27 years of service as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 will …
Issue: March-April 2002
Faust Book a Contender for National Book Award
… This Republic of Suffering , University president Drew Faust's account of the Civil War's staggering death toll and how it changed …
New Overseers and Elected Directors Announced
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
An Ageless Voice on Aging
… In the teeming universe of Shakespeare’s plays, you can find people of any and every age. There are young children like Mamillius, the king’s son in …
Issue: March-April 2010
Escape Artist
… The three periods of a collegiate wrestling match—three minutes, followed by two more of two minutes each—can tick by quickly. “But [comparing it … on your head and shoulders, and trying to bring you down to the mat. “You’re battling a lot of adversity in a wrestling …
Issue: January-February 2015
Fantastic!
… The recent announcement that Lene Vestergaard Hau had … light to matter, and then back into light, evokes the magic of carrying moonbeams home in a jar. That the general public might harbor doubts about the success of such research is understandable, but Hau says even her …
Issue: July-August 2007
Grossman Combined Medicine and Policy
… The Harvard community, and the Boston healthcare community, lost an energetic leader April 1 with the death of Dr. Jerome Grossman. Grossman—remembered in a Boston … Kennedy School, taught at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and was CEO of New England Medical Center (now …
Harvard Historians' Memoirs: A Chronological Sampler
… * Henry Adams, A.B. 1858, The Education of Henry Adams (1907/1918): circulated … Adams's death in 1918, The Education is a classic portrait of a historically sensitive author at odds with his times. * …
Issue: November-December 2004
Stadium Stories
… November 1903: Dartmouth scores the first Stadium touchdown. Note unfinished stands. Harvard … University team had the ball but a few minutes. Several of the Harvard players were not in first-class shape as they … '55 running the anchor leg—Harvard pulls out a surprise victory over undefeated Yale, 72-68. 1954: Cochran …
Issue: September-October 2003