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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 2019
Spas around New England
… All the establishments below offer visitors the chance to “get … Options for getting away from it all … 44066 … A selection of New England spas … 1513 … Spas around New England … …
Issue: March-April 2014
Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions Make Opening Arguments
… In a packed Boston courtroom Monday, Harvard and the anti-affirmative-action group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) presented arguments in the first day of trial of a four-year-old civil-rights lawsuit charging that the …
Harvard Will Not Divest Fossil-Fuel Holdings
… President Drew Faust announced Thursday that the University will not sell its endowment holdings in the … example, e-mailed Faust a half-dozen times and visited her office six times without receiving any response in December … in order to avert further environmental and human rights crises due to climate change?” Of the 3,556 students who …
Fenway Park’s First Pitch
… wind whipped down Jersey Street. Though it was early April, the freezing temperatures and snow flurries were better … the ticket windows from getting their initial glimpse of the 1912 Boston Red Sox and their new, state-of-the-art ballpark. On April 9, 1912, just 11 days before …
Issue: March-April 2012
Slowing Sperm
… place sole responsibility for preventing pregnancy on the female partner. And hormone-based op- tions such as the … women. But recent discoveries about sperm made in the lab of David Clapham, Castañeda professor of cardiovascular research, could now make this …
Issue: September-October 2007
Growth Spurt, Growing Pains
… From 603 full, associate, and assistant professors in 1999, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has grown to 700 as of this …
Issue: January-February 2006
A New Twist on Nature/Nuture
… Compared to other primates, humans spend a relatively short time nursing, … on parents. This unique life pattern may be the result of an evolutionary compromise between the competing interests of mothers, whose “fitness” is measured by how many …
Issue: November-December 2009
Fixtures and Followers
… The lists below include many of the oldest and newest Harvard Square businesses, according … (1834) Cambridge Center for Adult Education (1876; a nonprofit, rather than a business) Harvard Coop (1882) Leavitt & …
Issue: September-October 2011
Glaeser: Tax Credits for Home Heating Won't Help
… Glimp professor of economics Edward L. Glaeser doesn't like the Home Energy …
Kick Kennedy and Evelyn Waugh
… is a doctoral candidate in English at Harvard. She is also the granddaughter of Joseph P. Kennedy '12 and the editor of Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy …
Students’ Teacher
… lives “to learn something new every day.” He believes his profession requires “living with a clear head, without … preconceptions”—which, he adds, “can be a challenge in the classroom.” He did not reach that classroom in his … at Little Rock Central High. “I try not to think just of teaching a subject; I need to teach the children right in …
Issue: January-February 2013
It’s Baby Turkey Season in Cambridge
… Turkeys are usually associated with Thanksgiving season, but the best time to view them might be in late spring, when, … after a month-long brooding period, baby turkeys hop out of their eggs and begin to forage alongside their protective … And why would anyone want to? she asked. “When nature surprises you with something like a wild turkey in Harvard Yard, …
Harvard Portrait: Traci Green
… name a hot property--thus, Frank and Tina Sloan Green named their new daughter Traci. But even though Frank played … in college, and Tina, who’s in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, coached three Temple squads to NCAA titles, they … the Friends Select School in Philadelphia (“I was one of the fastest kids in my class through seventh grade”); two …
Issue: July-August 2010
Harvard Endowment Managers’ Pay Reported
… With the filing in mid May of its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2011 (covering the tax year from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012— Harvard’s …