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Where East Meets West
… Although the Harvard-Yenching Institute is housed on Divinity Avenue, at the eastern boundary of the University’s Cambridge campus, it’s not far from Harvard’s scholarly center. Nestled where a maze of science laboratories meet the Divinity School, flanked by …
Issue: January-February 2006
Football: Harvard 69, Columbia 0
… How did Harvard ring up 69 points on Saturday? Let us count the ways. Or should we? How much time do you have? Ten different players scored in a 69-0 rout of Columbia, the Crimson’s most lopsided win over an Ivy rival since a 77-0 trampling of Cornell in 1890. Colton Chapple, Harvard’s masterly …
Hiram Hunn Awards
… Seven alumni are to receive the Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, at a ceremony in Cambridge …
Issue: September-October 2013
William James: Summers and Semesters
… illustrious a scholar as Harvard has ever produced, and one of the very few to shine brightly in two disciplines. In mid … ) convened an unusual conference, “In the Footsteps of William James,” for the centennial. For its first three …
Issue: November-December 2010
Harvard Details Climate-Change Actions
… Last October, in the wake of strong student support for divesting University … in companies engaged in producing fossil fuels (part of a campaign to promote this idea nationwide ), President …
“To Heal and to Help”
… Perhaps more than any other group of graduates on Thursday, the new doctors … degrees from Harvard Medical School (HMS) stand at the edge of a precipice. They will enter their profession in the …
Allston Commercial Development Advances
… B oston regulators have finally approved the first, 9.4-acre phase of the “enterprise research campus” (ERC) in Allston, a largely commercial …
Extracurriculars
… Theater www.americanrepertorytheater.org 617-547-8300 Visit … 5 R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, written and directed by D.W. Jacobs. Actor … • February 12 through March 12 Ajax. A new translation of Sophocles’s play reveals that modern-day grappling with …
Issue: January-February 2011
What's Past Is Prologue
… Sage Stossel ’93, executive editor of The Atlantic Online, regularly contributes editorial … the Boston Globe. She prepared this narrative [ see PDF ] of Harvard’s June festivities after attending the muddy …
Issue: May-June 2007
Harvard Measures Its MOOCs
… From its inception in May 2012, a guiding goal of Harvard’s participation in the edX online-course venture has been to “advance teaching … program , and both edX and the for-profit online enterprise, Coursera, announced significant management …
Issue: May-June 2014
Dr. Dean
… Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., becomes dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) on September 1; President … Drew Faust announced his appointment on July 11. Flier, the Reisman professor of medicine, is an expert on the … both clinical training and large applied research enterprises. Contemporary research raises the stakes still …
Issue: September-October 2007
Phenome Fellow
… In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical … to pursue studies in biology, to the great surprise of the monks. Like Jesuits, Marists are rigorous in …
Issue: January-February 2003
Harvard in Motion
… A new fitness initiative, Harvard on the Move, kicked off on January 26 with a panel discussion on the benefits of walking and running, moderated by President Drew Faust in …
Football 2023: Harvard 45-University of St. Thomas 13
… Let’s not kid ourselves. The Harvard football team’s 45-13 thrashing of St. Thomas on Saturday in the Crimson’s 2023 opener at Harvard Stadium had its uses. It kicked off a season-long celebration of 150 years of Harvard …
Better Together
… The New York Times described it as the “first rigorously … disorder.” I regard it as an exemplary demonstration of the unmatched potential of the Harvard medical ecosystem. … a so-called Massachusetts “supercluster” that comprises eight of top fourteen NIH-funded independent hospitals …
Issue: March-April 2016