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Harvard’s Literary Arts Celebrated in Inaugural Festival
… The first Harvard LITFest kicked off this week with a smorgasbord of panels, workshops, and literary walking tours celebrating …
"Mr. Clean Vegetables John"
… Expelled from Harvard in 1969 for participating in the University Hall takeover, John Berlow ’71 traveled the … army in the Vietnam War. There he was struck by the lack of easy access to fruits and vegetables free of pesticide residue, and saw a need for environmentally …
Issue: May-June 2010
Douglas W. Elmendorf Appointed Harvard Kennedy School Dean
… Elmendorf, Ph.D. ’89, who concluded his service as director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO—read his vita here) in March, has been named …
Discourse and Discipline
… broaden approaches to student discipline were advanced at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on December 5. Although … the Student Handbook or academic policies. (The proposal arises from work begun in the spring of 2023 and should be …
Wyss Institute Receives Second, $125-Million Gift
… THE WYSS INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ENGINEERING, founded following a 2008 gift of $125 million from Hansjӧrg Wyss, M.B.A. ’65 , has received a follow-on gift, also of $125 million. The two gifts are tied as the largest in …
Shedding Light through Social Science
… Douglas Elmendorf, who most recently served as director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, will be returning to Harvard in January to serve as …
Issue: September-October 2015
Elbow Room
… colleagues, issued in January, with a literary hat trick. The first two pages quote John Adams, A.B. 1755, LL.D. 1781 … the Commonwealth’s legislature “to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them: especially the university at Cambridge”); the …
Return to Harvard Day
… On April 19, alumni of all College classes, their spouses, and high school-aged-offspring have an opportunity to visit the College, attend …
Issue: March-April 2006
University People
… Overseers Elevated The Board of Overseers, the University’s junior governing … as president and Ann M. Fudge , M.B.A. ’77, as vice chair of the executive committee for 2009-2010. Garland is a judge …
Issue: July-August 2009
Finding Harvard’s Voice
… late March , Danielle Allen , Harvard’s Conant University Professor, spoke at Brigham Young University (BYU) on how to be a “confident pluralist.” The crowd was so large that the event took place in the … Speech.” When Jacob Miller ’25 complained about the “lack of dialogue” on campus and blamed the “lack of education” …
The Poetics of Homelessness
… After publication of the May-June feature “ The Homelessness Public Health Crisis … Harvard Divinity School (HDS). He has written three books of poetry: A Madness of Blue Obsidian, The Hour Wasp, and …
What's All This About Boodh?
… When we think of Henry David Thoreau, A.B. 1837, we conjure up a literary stylist, a close observer of nature, a political oppositionist, and a counselor who … in Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness (Yale University Press, $35) the first in-depth study of the man's religious thought. …
Issue: July-August 2002
Stephanie Gil Helps Robots Work Better Together
… year at Cornell, she interned with NASA and participated in the agency’s Mars Exploration Rover mission. NASA sent two … named “Spirit” and “Opportunity” to different extremes of the planet. “I saw how robots could be our explorers and … That, to me, was very cool, and I wanted to be a part of that.” After earning her Ph.D. in robotics from MIT, Gil …
Wikipedia Against Censorship
… in Iran in 2013, you wouldn’t have been able to find it; the article was one of 963 blocked by the government. This tidbit about the Harry Potter actress is found in a 2013 University of Pennsylvania report on Iran’s censorship of Wikipedia. …
Historic Humor
… With a donation this month of two leather-bound volumes of Harvard Lampoon issues from the 1890s, the humor …