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Band Director Tom Everett Steps Down
… Tom Everett , director of the Harvard University Bands since 1971, will retire from that post as of February 15, 2013, reports the Arts Spectrum of Harvard’s …
Oldest Graduates
… The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on … Day were 90-year-old Frances Downing Vaughan ’44 of Cambridge, and 103-year-old Donald F. Brown ’30 of Stow, Massachusetts. The oldest class representative to attend was 103-year-old …
Issue: July-August 2012
Breaking Even in a Bleak Year?
… Despite a second consecutive year of reduced revenues—as the pandemic closed many executive-education programs, for … Hollister, vice president for finance and chief financial officer, disclosed the newly promising outlook on April 27, …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: July-August 2021
“Vermont Strong”
… Tropical Storm Irene reached Vermont on the afternoon of August 28, 2011. In less than a day, the … most devastating natural disaster since the Great Flood of 1927 cut off entire towns, destroyed homes, and damaged …
Issue: September-October 2012
Mountain Man
… E.V.C. Moon '52, Ph.D. '68, retired recently, having spent the greater part of his career as an historian of biological and chemical warfare. He continues his …
Issue: January-February 2003
News Briefs
… Police—and Student—Conduct The committee appointed by President Drew Faust last spring to review the April 13 off-campus arrest of a black undergraduate by Cambridge … professionals as first responders when mental-health crises arise. HUHS was encouraged as well to promote …
Issue: January-February 2019
Underground Party
… Commuters making their way through the underground corridors of the sprawling … some extraordinary companions, with the completion in March of New Year’s Eve Revelers, a permanent mosaic mural …
Issue: May-June 2008
Topping Off
… The final beam of the Science and Engineering Complex in … who have supported it, and community partners and elected officials who have enabled its creation was a powerful … the University filed regulatory plans for an Enterprise Research Campus that will bolster the remarkable …
Issue: March-April 2018
Harvard Design Dean to Step Down
… Mohsen Mostafavi, who was appointed dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in August 2007 and took office the …
An Uncertain Future for Harvard Square
… SIX YEARS AGO, this magazine ran an article reflecting on the many changes Harvard Square had undergone in the past 25 years: the losses of The Tasty Sandwich Shop and the Wursthaus, as well as the … decline in independently run bookstores with the closing of the Globe Corner Bookstore and Curious George Books and …
Robotic Fly
… "If I could go back in time and choose again the field I would get into," he says, "it might be a toss-up between engineering and biology." ~Professor Robert Wood, Harvard Microbiotics Lab [video: … swooping into your eye during a bike ride. But the research of Robert Wood, assistant professor of engineering and …
Issue: January-February 2008
Football 2018: Harvard 45, Yale 27
… The 135th playing of The Game on Saturday at Fenway Park had a flyover, … heartbreak and (probably) the first mass chorus of “Sweet Caroline” at a Harvard-Yale game. It also had …
Liberty's Defending Angel
… Nadine Strossen '72, J.D. '75, is a voracious reader. "The most important thing in my childhood was books. I was an … me," she says. "I became a civil libertarian because of a series of deprivations." The president of the American Civil …
Issue: September-October 2003
Humanities Rebooted
… Two of Harvard’s most venerable humanities disciplines have … requirements in recent months, marking 2008-09 as a year of considerable curricular change in the foundational literary fields. Both English and the …
Issue: May-June 2009
Failing to Fail?
… The Harvard Crimson’s report (following the December 3 Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting) that “ The median grade at … an A-, and the most frequently awarded mark is an A ” set off a mild flurry of debate the other week—as well as …