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Pinned in Memory
… When the nazis occupied Hungary and began deporting the country’s … Now, through family objects and memories, the Dillon professor of the civilization of France and professor of comparative …
Issue: May-June 2023
Online-Education Updates
… Four years after Harvard and MIT launched edX, their online-course venture, in May 2012, MIT scholars have … A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms,” a review of the field. Its lead authors—Karen Willcox, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, and Sanjay Sarma, …
Issue: November-December 2016
Seeing Red
… ’84, tackles breathing, cancer, and unexpected days at the beach. At the office, she directs research on a database of 3 million cancer cases, or culls morbidity factors among …
Issue: July-August 2007
Language Wars
… Lest you take these English words for granted, consider this: when the United States was founded, only 40 percent of the people living within its boundaries spoke English as … can feel essential to its very existence. It's no surprise that often the more vulnerable a group feels, the …
Issue: March-April 2002
All-Court Wonder
… Last winter, in the waning minutes of the Harvard men’s home basketball game … the charge. Stehle hit the floor, the referee whistled the offensive foul, and the ball went over to Harvard. It was a …
Issue: November-December 2005
Landmark Newsstand May Close
… An iconic Harvard Square newsstand may close early in 2009, the Cambridge City Council learned yesterday. The Harvard … Crimson reports that Hudson News, which operates Out of Town News, has declined to renew its lease, which expires … to a temporary lease, at a discounted rate, through the end of January to give the city time to solicit bids from other …
Harvard Girl
… For the last two years, Harvard junior Yiting Liu has been at the epicenter of a new phenomenon in her native China: celebrity status … whose success stories are chronicled in the budding genre of how-to manuals for "family education." (The Chinese term …
Issue: July-August 2002
From Haiti to Rwanda, Paul Farmer Moves Mountains
… Paul E. Farmer, Presley professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, made the front page of the Boston Sunday Globe this week with his …
An Endowment Manager’s Pay Exceeds $11 Million
… The University this afternoon released its tax return for nonprofit organizations (Form 990) for 2013, covering the tax … to Jane L. Mendillo, then president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC, which is …
Man with a Plan
… Courtesy of GEANCO Foundation Afam Onyema (left) with classmate … S.A. Alabi, and Dr. Godwin Onyema Like many graduates of high-powered colleges and law schools, Afam Onyema ’01 … wear Rolexes, and excel in fast-paced jobs. Onyema has only the latter: a job that he wakes up “hungry” to pursue, that …
Issue: September-October 2008
Peabody Museum Discovers Possible Slave Remains in Its Collections
… The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has found among its holdings the remains of 15 people of African descent who were likely alive when … role in collection practices that placed the academic enterprise above respect for the dead and human decency,” he …
Short and Sweet
… W hen Lawrence S. Bacow was elected the University’s twenty-ninth president in February 2018 , … Corporation—on which he had served since 2011—and the Board of Overseers were confident that they had chosen the right … separating commercial development of the 36-acre enterprise research campus facing the Business School across …
Issue: July-August 2023
Genomic Joint Venture
… Harvard, its hospitals, MIT, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research announced on … philanthropists Eli Broad (pronounced brode ), chairman of AIG SunAmerica Inc., and his wife, Edythe Broad, the new … plan of research and no details about how the enterprise will "benefit the University as a whole." The new …
Issue: September-October 2003
Governance Reform and Shared Value
… How can business help mend the broken U.S. political system—and even step up to fulfill … needs government fails to meet? Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter, perhaps the best-known scholar of corporate strategy, turned his attention to these …
Tenure and Gender
… A tenure review, normally among the most discreet of Harvard procedures, erupted into loud, … history with women's promotions, so I shouldn't be surprised by what happened." In keeping with the confidentiality …