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St. Louis Blues
… “Many of us are here because we want to bear witness,” said Diane … issues of racial justice in St. Louis. Bringing together planners, politicians, activists, and scholars, “ … basic investment of its time and money, it should be no surprise when they start to believe it.” Sharing her own …
FAS Dean Outlines Priorities
… Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), outlined his priorities for the academic year in his first forward-looking annual letter …
With a Little Help from Harvard's Friends
… On Saturday morning, May 13, the dull gray of the sky over Cambridge brightened the white … as "dotcoms" and their related service and technology enterprises ("dotcom-ers") take on the rest of the world: the …
Media-maniac Derrick Ashong
… Singer-songwriter Derrick Ashong ’97, subject of a Montage profile in Harvard Magazine, was recently featured in a short video for the Wall Street Journal' s website. In it, Ashong revisits …
Ivy League Cancels Spring Competition
… On Thursday, the eight Ivy League presidents announced that no … this coming spring. This will be the fourth straight season of canceled competition, and the second spring season … would like nothing better than to deliver a complete season of competition, these are necessary decisions for the Ivy …
Graduate Student Union Considers Agenda
… For most unions , getting ready for any round of negotiations with an employer requires research and a complicated juggling act—reconciling the varying, sometimes competing, interests of its membership. Those challenges and more await the newly …
A Pitch-Perfect “Glass Menagerie”
… The current production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams at the American Repertory Theater (ART) marks an historic return of actress Cherry Jones, one of the company’s founding …
Autism Update
… In a recent paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of Boston Autism Consortium members reported a significant …
And Having Written...
… editor Craig Lambert tiptoed on to Harvard Magazine ’s masthead formally in the November-December 1988 issue, the … , in this issue, is his last as a full-time member of the staff. Fittingly, he also writes this time for Right … Lambert liked telling stories through people. His profile subjects included Doug Kenney (of the Harvard Lampoon …
Issue: January-February 2015
Happy New (Academic) Year
… The drought that fastened its grip on eastern Massachusetts … the calendar moves inevitably forward—toward the resumption of academic activity in a new school year. Members of the … opening exercises, many of those issues are likely to arise anew, informally and perhaps even formally. (A dozen …
Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2008
“Drip, Drip, Drip”
… Erwin Cai ’20 knew he should make a defensive move. The problem was execution. A sabre fencer since age eight, … “When you show up as a freshman and you see the level of motivation that all the upperclassmen have toward winning … he attacked at the same time as his opponent, per the rules of sabre fencing, no one would earn a point. The safer, …
Issue: May-June 2020
First Wampanoag Graduate in 346 Years
… Commencement on May 26, Tiffany Smalley ’11 will become the first member of the Wampanoag tribe in more than three centuries to … is Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, A.B. 1665, protagonist of the new novel Caleb's Crossing by Pulitzer Prize winner …
Ballots, Please
… This spring, alumni vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and for elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots should …
Issue: March-April 2006
Tall Tales
… ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow—offered fix-it tips for "the repair-impaired." Cohen's second book— The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, with a December 2008 release date—promises …