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An Academic Worker’s Union?
… In early February, non-tenure-track faculty and other academic staff members launched an effort to form a … member at Harvard Medical School (HMS), said during one of two union rallies February 14, in Harvard Yard and at the … since 2010, the number of non-ladder faculty members has risen by 44 percent. Organizers advocating a union of …
Issue: May-June 2023
Taking Climate Action at Harvard
… How can the world curb carbon emissions in the difficult-to-abate … climate policy? And how might the U.S. Congress pass a form of carbon tax in 2025? Those were among the high-priority, … continued. “So, both face challenges of shifting vast enterprises to a new set of technologies, goals, and …
Harvard Almost Human
… hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Scholars up to the tune of 6,000 and more received degrees at this year's … it we may presume they were — but consider the case of Joseph F. Dolan '45, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, the …
Issue: July-August 2004
Video: An Operatic Honorary Degree
… At the Morning Exercises , Harvard President Drew Faust … , L ’59. Fellow honorand Plácido Domingo sang the end of the conferral to her. View a video here: … . … At Commencement, tenor and honorand Plácido Domingo surprises Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an opera fan, during the …
"We Can Endure"
… he was a young medical resident in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS epidemic—a searing experience that profoundly … so many artists feel called to respond to these kinds of crises. In our history, as we move from crisis to crisis, …
Harvard’s New Football Coach: A Real Tiger
… On February 15 , Harvard introduced Andrew Aurich as the new Stephenson Family head coach of football. A product of St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of a high-school football …
Harvard Headlines: A Healthcare Nominee, Tensions over Squash, and Volcanic Academic Fallout
… Among the Harvard-related stories of interest this week: President … nominated Donald M. Berwick ’68, M.D.-M.P.P. ’72, professor in the department of health policy and management …
Harvard 28, Cornell 10
… The passing attack , arguably the most potent weapon in … He had previously seen special-teams action, but the pickoffs came on the second and third defensive downs of Owusu’s nascent career. Gordon, Harvard’s top rusher, …
President Faust to Join Corporate Board
… President Drew Faust has been nominated for election to the board of directors of Staples, Inc., the office-supplies retailer … FedEx, Marathon Oil, Medtronic, and Public Service Enterprise Group (and has held other corporate-board seats)—a set …
Diagnosing Dementia
… Millions of Americans live in fear of developing Alzheimer's disease. Yet only a relatively … with dementia is properly diagnosed. Older people and their families often go through years of torment before …
Civil Rights Attorney Sherrilyn Ifill to Receive 2022 Radcliffe Medal
… Sherrilyn Ifill , president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, will receive the … Rodham Clinton, and other world leaders as recipients of the Institute’s highest honor since the award’s inception …
Square Newbies
… The Square’s restaurant scene has welcomed more than six … club (max. 525 people) with great acoustics, where a mix of veteran and emerging artists can shine. The dining zones have the spare yet comfortable feel of a rehabbed, circa 1930s, warehouse: exposed girders and …
Issue: May-June 2013
A Hidden Youthfulness
… What if the stem cells in our bodies live on, even as we age? What … just asleep, quiescent, like forgotten sentinels nodding off at remote outposts, waiting for orders? If only … But is the slowness of repair due to some deficiency that arises with age, that stops normal processes from working …
Issue: January-February 2010
A Modern Yet Classic Shakespeare
… This summer , the American Repertory Theater staged a new Gatsby musical … the couple, hoping to refocus the play on love. “It is often considered to be a play about hate,” she said in an … Actors push around a large wooden wall, a manifestation of the division between both the pair of lovers and the two …
University People
… Innovation Chief Gordon S. Jones has been appointed the inaugural director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, now being created on Western … of free representative government and private enterprise” ( www.bradleyfdn.org ). Mansfield, a prominent campus …
Issue: July-August 2011