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Sidewalk Superintendent: Fogg Renovation
… As reported , the wholesale remaking of Harvard’s central art-museum … shows scaffolding erected on the Prescott Street side of the Fogg complex, giving construction workers access to …
General Education, Finally Defined
… Following extensive consultation with colleagues throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Task Force on General Education has readied a revised, third version of what undergraduates should be expected to study beyond …
Issue: March-April 2007
A Commitment to Radicalism
… morning, Elizabeth Hinton told everyone to get ready. The second and final—and fullest—day of a Radcliffe Institute conference honoring radical … beneath her instantly recognizable afro, now a shade of silver-gray. A capacity crowd filled the Knafel Center …
A Victory—and a Campaign
… annual report for fiscal year 2012 —previewed with Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) colleagues at their October 2 meeting and published two days … finances: after projecting large deficits in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and sharp decline in the value …
Issue: November-December 2012
Graduate-Student Squeeze
… Harvard graduate students will receive stipend increases of 1.5 percent next year, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Xiao-Li …
Harvard Olympic Athletes in London
… one varsity coach (plus one coaching alumnus) at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, which begin on Friday, … court for Harvard this fall and winter. Samyr Laine ’06, profiled during his college career in Harvard Magazine, will … races for the United States. One is Caryn Davies ’05, profiled in Harvard Magazine in 2003, a year after she won her …
Equality and Justice
… This year’s Radcliffe Day panel, “The Long Arc of Equality and Justice in America,” drew its name from one of the most frequently quoted adages in American history: …
Harvard in Chicago
… The Harvard Club of Chicago, the oldest continually operating Harvard club in existence, … its 150th anniversary in 2007. The year-long series of events—including publication of a book outlining its …
Issue: March-April 2008
News from Belgrade
… The Harvard Club of Serbia celebrated the country’s new government—which includes President Boris … Bozidar Djelic, M.B.A.-M.P.A. ’91, and the minister of foreign affairs, Vuk Jeremic, M.P.A. ’03—with a …
Issue: September-October 2007
A Space “to Convene, to Learn, and to Celebrate”
… Despite rainy weather and the mounting academic demands of the fall semester, … the river and the HBS campus for a symposium on the state of democracy at Harvard Business School (HBS). The event …
Landmark Globes
… "The northern hemispheres were almost black from dirt," says David A. Cobb, head of the Harvard Map Collection, referring to a terrestrial … mass production. He abandoned the earlier practice of engraving a map directly on a solid sphere of wood or …
Issue: March-April 2005
A Nation, Building
… On a recent Monday morning, during a class on global trade, the professor reviewed the effects of nations’ limits on such … alumni strong—in government, private and state-owned enterprises, finance, and academia nationwide: institutions very …
Issue: May-June 2014
Are Super Responders Special?
… As a medical student in the 1980s, Isaac “Zak” Kohane heard stories—from patients, mentors, and colleagues—of nearly miraculous recoveries from cancer. A patient given … that they didn’t really have a cancer.” Now Nelson professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School …
Issue: September-October 2019
James W. Breyer Elected to Harvard Corporation
… a partner at Accel Partners , has been elected a fellow of the Harvard Corporation, the University's senior governing … includes not only rapidly growing start-up enterprises like Facebook, on which Accel investors realized gains …
Presidents Xi and Faust Confer in China
… Faust, visiting Beijing for a "Your Harvard" event and other University business, met on Monday night with People's … President Xi Jinping. The two leaders discussed a number of issues of mutual importance for China and Harvard, including …