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Lindsay Waters
… Jim Harrison Lindsay Waters is an uncommon bird. He is both the executive editor for the humanities of Harvard University Press — perforce a generalist, … — and a productive scholar himself. At the University of Chicago he began as a medievalist, doing his doctoral …
Issue: May-June 2003
Centered on Children
… Recruiting Jack Shonkoff in 2006 was the key to creating the new Center on the Developing Child (CDC), says University provost Steven Hyman. In Shonkoff, Harvard has “a person of enormous energy, with …
Issue: March-April 2009
Harvard Hubs
… Harvesting two tangible fruits of The Harvard Campaign, the University formally inaugurated … September 20 and October 1, respectively. The lower levels of the Smith Center (the remade Holyoke Center) now feature …
Issue: November-December 2018
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
… Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction on Monday for … book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America . In the book, published by Farrar, Straus and … over seven years, the book describes the consequences of fracking and corporate greed in the small rural town. …
Open Access
… In an historic vote, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) moved to make the … freely available to anyone, “disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible.” The …
Issue: May-June 2008
A Slightly Grayer Faculty
… The unique institution of tenure gave higher education a loophole when the 1970 Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was … law would clog up the employment pipeline with elderly professors who refused to retire, and lead to a "graying" of …
Issue: November-December 2002
Cambridge 02138
… with great interest. I have equally great admiration for the clear writing. The multifaceted faculty approaches to … the many well-known, as well as to the recent, involvements of inflammation in humanity’s defenses and illnesses were … groups include endogenous metabolic inflammation, which comprises the main gestalt of Shaw’s article, and the last group …
Issue: July-August 2019
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
Crimson Women
… Two years in the making, the Women's Guide to Harvard was distributed to students—women and men alike—at the beginning of spring term. The 272-page book, edited by Peggy Lim '01 … to increasing the number, effectiveness, and diversity of female leaders"), is something of a hybrid. On one hand, …
Issue: May-June 2002
After Harvard, What?
… Just as British gentlemen in the nineteenth century divided themselves among the four professions, the majority of graduating Harvard seniors pursue one of four fields. …
Harvard Library to Help Preserve Tibetan Literary Heritage
… upload onto its digital storage system 10 million pages of Tibetan literature that survived China’s convulsive Cultural Revolution, the movement between 1966 and 1976 that led to the … and medicine. Despite all the political tensions that have arisen concerning China’s governance of the Tibetan region …
Harvard Men Beat Princeton and Penn, Again
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Earlier this … Tommy Amaker, does for games. The speaker also shared many of Amaker’s aphorisms, such as “Failing to prepare is … ’15. In “The Voice Inside My Head,” delivered as part of the Lowell Speeches Project , Anastasi discussed what he …
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr.
… Thanks to the recent publication of Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.'s A … Arthur Meier Schlesinger's In Retrospect: The History of a Historian now forms the opening part of a unique family …
Issue: November-December 2004
Congress's First Blind Rabbi?
… Last week's New Yorker had a Talk of the Town piece on the man who hopes to be the first blind … ’82, J.D. ’86, has "the most conservative voting record of any member of the House from the Northeast." In June, …
Economics and Moral Questions
… Last fall , President Lawrence H. Summers spoke at the first Morning Prayers service of the semester at Memorial Church. His controversial … 15, Summers chose to speak in his second capacity, as professor of economics. The former U.S. Secretary of the …
Issue: November-December 2003