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Neuroscience News
… for Systems Neuroscience got a double boost in late fall: the appointment of its first director and the approval by the Harvard Corporation of plans for a new laboratory building in Cambridge, part of …
Issue: January-February 2004
Class Gifts
… The University had received 91,000 gifts through May 31 of … James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, who gave an accounting of class gifts at the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon …
Issue: July-August 2007
Blackboard Brain Drain
… When children return to classrooms this fall, they're less likely than ever to find a very smart teacher standing at the front of the class. Researchers say that since the 1960s, … contracts," Hoxby says. One of the findings that most surprised her was just how widely teacher salaries varied before …
Issue: September-October 2004
Pushing Civil Rights
… In the spring of 1996, the appellate court decision in Hopwood v. Texas landed like … be used as a factor in college admissions. The decision set off a panic among academics and civil-rights advocates, who …
Issue: September-October 2003
Brevia
… Finding a Fellow The search for a new member of the Harvard … to identify standards and appropriate practices for enterprises in relation to human rights. The work links businesses …
Issue: November-December 2005
Ice Cream and Vinegar
… Seventeen authors, several of them Harvardians, reread a book or a poem (or the Sgt. … impressed them in their youths and write about how it—of course, they—have changed. Rereadings (Farrar, …
Issue: September-October 2005
One Man's Mountain
… Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian emphasized the literary qualities of his work, not the political conditions that make him an exile from his native land. Justin Ide/ Harvard News Office Even winning the Nobel Prize for Literature doesn't …
HAA’s New Helmsman
… Philip W. Lovejoy has been appointed executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), succeeding John P. ( … in the travel industry and at the then-Harvard Museum of Natural History. He has most recently served as deputy …
Issue: July-August 2014
Looming Layoffs
… vice president for human resources, announced that 534 of 1,628 staff members eligible for an early-retirement incentive—33 percent—had accepted the offer. (The Faculty of Arts and Sciences alone offered early …
Issue: July-August 2009
Footfalls...and Failures
… As the summer months trickle through my sweaty fingers, September looms, bringing with it the first of my Lasts. For the last time, I will return to Harvard an … “You missed a point!” Whether stated with glee or mere surprise, the expectation was clear. Anything less than …
Issue: September-October 2006
Harvard Olympians Compete in Beijing
… Harvardians, including two undergraduates, will compete in the Beijing Olympic games during the next two weeks, in the sports of tennis, fencing, and rowing. Detailed scheduling and … run from September 6 to 17. Harvard has a long history of participation in the Olympic games, stretching back to …
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... …
President Faust, Before Harvard
… Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, The Chronicle of Higher Education —a leading source of news … reprinting vintage cover stories. The June 24 issue reprised the July 6, 1994, edition, on which “Penn’s Drew …
Itinerant Scholar
… Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine had a profile of Lewis Hyde, a scholar who’s made a life of following … Internet and Society , where he is working on a book about the concept of the “cultural commons” and intellectual …
Football: Princeton 39, Harvard 34
… football team held a 34-10 lead and was on its way to another big win. Then the heavens fell. The Tiger offense scored 29 unanswered points—the last seven with 13 … out an astonishing 39-34 victory. The loss was the first of the season for Harvard (5-1, 2-1 Ivy League), and the …