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Alan Dershowitz's Perfect World
… "Paint a picture of your ideal world," Debra Trione asked 50 "of the most powerful and influential leaders in America." A …
Issue: January-February 2003
Interim Agendas
… Bok and Jeremy R. Knowles are serving as president and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), respectively, on an interim …
Issue: November-December 2006
Winslow Homer's Early Days
… On Sunday afternoons through September, The 1853 Homer House, an Italianate mansion that dominates a … curator, Susan Smart ’71, CMS ’01. She is a member of the nonprofit Belmont Woman’s Club, which saved the house—built by …
Issue: July-August 2016
Maxine Kumin
… ’46, A.M. ’48, a Bunting Institute Fellow in 1963, became the eleventh recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal. Kumin has published 15 volumes of poetry, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: …
Issue: July-August 2005
Stellar Archeology
… Some explore the origins of the universe by seeking to observe the most distant galaxies … Center for Astrophysics, now assistant professor of physics at MIT, compares the unusual chemistry of …
Issue: May-June 2013
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 …
Centennial Medalists
… Each June, 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 2007
Harvard and MIT to Sell edX for $800 Million
… Harvard, MIT, and edX announced today that edX, the two institutions’ 2012 joint venture into online … logistical support that allows colleges and universities to offer online instruction but does not itself provide … communities, and with other nonprofit organizations, enterprises, and governments seeking to address inequities in …
Science Synergy
… With preliminary approval from the Harvard Corporation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has negotiated a merger with the … University? " January-February, page 64). Gordon McKay professor of applied physics Frans Spaepen has been named the …
Issue: May-June 2002
Marijuana Advocate
… “ I was not one of the ’60s radicals,” says Dale Gieringer ’68 of his time at Harvard. “I was pretty libertarian and sort …
Issue: May-June 2011
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 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 …
Turning History's Page
… Conservator Marjorie B. Cohn, with the tools of her trade, meticulously restored the fragile … work undertaken by Marjorie B. Cohn, then the conservator of works of art on paper at the Center for Conservation and …
Issue: March-April 2002
Lapeliana
… hundred and ninety-nine buttons, pins, badges, and ribbons, the cinders of old strife, lie at Houghton Library in three linear feet of boxes containing the Frederick W.C. Lieder political …
Issue: November-December 2004
Harvard Science Committee Recommends Rapid Growth
… detailed preliminary report outlining a strategy for strengthening science at Harvard. Among the highlights, the report calls for the creation of up to 140 new faculty positions during the next decade, … … Among the highlights, the report calls for the creation of up to 140 new faculty positions during the next decade... …