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Poet and Renaissance Scholar Launch Commencement Week
… Sheltered from the morning’s intermittent mist, an audience in Sanders … celebrations. Schiff, who teaches in the English department of the University of Iowa, read four poems: one from her … could, I would pore over the whole, vast, messy enterprise of culture as if it were my birthright.” He added, …
Rhode Island Blues
… , denial, and pugnacious, abrasive families permeate the dark stories of Jean McGarry ’70. The Providence, Rhode Island, native has set down an unblinking account of the blue-collar Irish of that state. “It’s a clannish …
Issue: July-August 2014
Scholars’ Haven
… Noel Twagiramungu won’t speak about the assassination attempt—the event that drove him from … as a fellow with the Scholars At Risk (SAR) program, which offers one-year positions at colleges and universities to … government, Noel Twagiramungu says, meets criticism of the long-term imprisonment of probable innocents by …
Issue: May-June 2006
Harvard Headlines: Hasty Pudding Picks Timberlake, Helen Molesworth Departs, and More
… added). Justin Timberlake has been named Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, People magazine and the Harvard Crimson report. He … the award. Anne Hathaway , named the organization's Woman of the Year last week, is set to accept her award on January …
Update: Harvard versus Penn
… The escape artists from Cambridge did it again at … Ryan Barnes came up with a pass interception—his third of the game—to preserve a 24-21 Crimson victory. Harvard now has an overall record of 8-1 and is 5-1 in Ivy League play. Half of the team's …
“Old” Food Reduces Lifespan
… thinking about this question for centuries,” says Harvard professor of medicine Vadim Gladyshev. It sounds almost … in fact it’s thorny and complicated, and although several theories have emerged—that organisms are “programmed” by … through the diet. It’s also likely that the damage arises from many processes. “And they all work together in a …
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 …
Losing a Chair
… I had left Pforzheimer House early on the morning that I would learn my time at Harvard had ended. … concern was grabbing my favorite seat at Starbucks. Most of my college papers were written from that chair, … sophomore year, when I convinced myself that I was capable of writing only in that exact spot. Luckily, my chair was …
Extracurriculars
… Special Events Celebrating the Millennium of Firdawsi's Shahnama The Houghton Library … and Harvard Art Museums are participating in a series of fall events organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in …
Issue: September-October 2010
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 …
Gifts That Keep Giving
… "A gift to Harvard is a gift to the world," declared Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, L.H.D. '03, the longtime chairman of the Committee on University Resources, in presenting his annual report at the HAA meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Among the donations that Harvard wants …
Issue: July-August 2004
President Garber’s Agenda
… During a conversation in his Massachusetts Hall office on a remarkably balmy Halloween afternoon, President … M. Garber was expansive about his academic aspirations for the University he has led on an interim basis since last … he was able to focus on intellectual matters was indicative of the relatively calm campus conditions thus far this …
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
Harvard Professor Scott Kominers on NFTs and Brands
… In the fifteenth century, Gutenberg’s press revolutionized the process of distributing written text. Today, we have non-fungible … NFTs have the ability to fundamentally change the spread of information. Yet, while the printing press created …
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 …