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2013 Commencement & Reunion Guide
… Magazine 's Commencement & Reunion Guide, published in the May-June 2013 issue , offers a fascinating glimpse into the graduating class of 2013. Learn about the tradition of women's hats for …
Inner Vision
… Artist Francie Randolph ’87, Ed.M. ’96, of Truro, Massachusetts, was looking for a visual element that could unite the ideas of failure and imagination. She was designing a limited …
Issue: July-August 2010
FAS Dean is Ill; Curriculum Review Continues
… The president urged the faculty to address the business at hand so all present could “give a good account of ourselves” when Knowles was able to resume his duties... Faculty of Arts and Sciences interim dean Jeremy R. Knowles was …
Fleeting Fame
… Kaavya Viswanathan’s 15 minutes of fame proved unusually nasty and brutish as well as short. Publicity profiles anticipating the late-March publication of her debut “chick-lit” novel, …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard Appoints New Committee to Review Social Policy
… Following the release yesterday of the report of the committee charged with recommending how to implement …
Crimson Wrestlers Rising
… The ascent of Harvard's wrestling program, as some colleges scrap theirs to reach gender equity in their sports offerings, owes much to the grappling skills of wrestling …
A Crisis in Caregiving
… Who will take care of our elders? Low pay, poor training, meager prospects for … are creating a national shortage of caregivers for all but the very wealthy. Scholars are studying the dilemma, the … historically relied on family members. Adult children comprise more than 40 percent of those "informal" caregivers …
Issue: January-February 2002
Toxic Memo
… This David Levine caricature accompanied a New Yorker profile, published in the issue of July 6, 1998, when Summers led the U.S. effort to fortify …
Meet the Lawyers Behind the Harvard v. Trump Lawsuit
… Harvard and the federal government are slated to square off in court on … The federal government—primarily through the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human …
Issue: July-August 2025
Dancers Respond to “This Crazy Time”
… There’s no safe harbor from the raging elements in Faye … to physically anchor the new performance piece in fact offers no stability. Instead, the central platform rotates … at varying speeds as 10 figures crawl, writhe, and spill off its edges in a disturbing yet mesmerizing way. Is the …
Issue: November-December 2024
Race in a Genetic World
… an African American,” says Duana Fullwiley, “but in parts of Africa, I am white.” To do fieldwork as a medical … a seven- to eight-hour ride. My race changes as I cross the Atlantic. There, I say, ‘ Je suis noire, ’ and they say, … of that region. But an Asian-American student was surprised to find that she carried almost the same genetic …
Issue: May-June 2008
Harvard@Home
… The University’s on-line learning programs (accessible via athome.harvard.edu ) provide a wide range of material on courses, events, speakers, and other happenings around campus. Some of the new offerings include: “Women and War in the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Katie Lapp Steps Down as Executive Vice President
… On the morning of May 12, Katie Lapp, Harvard’s executive vice … that she will be stepping down from her position at the end of the summer. Moving into her position will be Meredith … engineering complex and planning for the developing enterprise research campus , among other initiatives in the area. …
New Look
… The two buildings of the Center for Government and International Studies, … Photograph by Jim Harrison … The two buildings of the Center for Government and International Studies, …
Issue: November-December 2004
Chu to Speak at Commencement
… The University announced today that U.S. Secretary of Energy … be the principal speaker at Commencement, on the afternoon of June 4. The official news announcement is available here …