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Self-Definition
… From the book Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths. … a book] is like having a job on Wall Street, in terms of job security and how much you’re paid.” With Swish: My … Gayest Person Ever (Broadway Books), a personal exploration of contemporary gay culture and sexual identity, Derfner saw …
Issue: September-October 2008
Fed Chair Janet Yellen to Receive Radcliffe Medal
… FEDERAL RESERVE chair Janet Yellen will receive the Radcliffe Medal and speak to guests at the Radcliffe Day … to economics, followed by a discussion with Beren professor of economics N. Gregory Mankiw. The day will open with a …
News Briefs
… Admissions Litigation As the University and Students for Fair Admissions—the litigant … 15 (after this issue went to press), the U.S. Department of Justice weighed in, opposing the University’s position. In a statement of interest, the department, which has been challenging …
Issue: November-December 2018
Democracy Is Self-Correcting
… deepens, and delivers,” United States ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, J.D. ’99, told degree … on May 28. Power, who was founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at HKS from 1998 to 2002 and subsequently served there as Lind professor of the practice of global leadership and public …
Football: Harvard 24, Brown 7
… Like the Stadium’s FieldTurf surface, this fall’s Crimson football team seems to be weatherproof. Unfazed by a rainstorm that intensified as the game … Coach Tim Murphy, whose teams have defeated Brown in 10 of the last 12 encounters, saw this one as a moment of …
Springtime with Mass Audubon
… The nature-based conservation organization Mass Audubon … in the City Festival (Magazine Beach, Cambridge, April 12) offers music, food, and a scavenger hunt. Participants can … birds along the Charles River, learn about the habits of urban wildlife, and find ways to help mitigate the …
Issue: May-June 2025
An Authentic Act
… January, women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith ( profiled here ) stood outside her team’s locker room in … to a 56-46 win over Dartmouth in its Ivy League opener. Then she and her squad had joined more than 100 alumnae, … coaching, mental-health issues on college campuses have risen sharply in recent years. That change, too, is …
Harvard’s G.O.A.T.
… Late in the second quarter on a sunny, seasonably warm Saturday 110 … a football near midfield. In the thirty-fourth playing of The Game, undefeated and defending national champion … Harvard was leading archrival Yale 3-2. The cynosure of all eyes was Charlie Brickley—football’s best player, the …
Issue: November-December 2023
Climate-Change Changes
… In late February, some 10 months after the University announced its 2050 “net-zero” goal for … document detailed initial progress in the multiyear process of determining how to get data about GHG emissions produced … billion) was invested in fossil-fuel commodities or enterprises. Including indirect exposure (assets held by external …
Issue: May-June 2021
Jeff Lichtman Appointed Dean of Science
… Jeff Lichtman , a neuroscientist who is Knowles professor of molecular and cellular biology and Cajal professor of … has been appointed divisional dean of science within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1. Hopi …
Suburban Angst, Chinese-Style
… dysfunctional Chinese-American family that opens in theaters in September, with a DVD due later this fall. … But early in Red Doors, father Ed Wong stands atop a stack of weighty philosophical books ( Being and Time, … her father—but Katie, jaded by her father’s long history of failed suicide attempts, nonchalantly announces, “Time …
Issue: September-October 2006
Allston Performing Arts Center Planned
… On November 30, Harvard filed plans with the City of Boston to construct a new performing arts center … River, the arts have been envisioned as an important part of the mix on the Allston campus. A museum to house …
Dialogue, not Debate
… in fostering open, respectful dialogue on campus. In the past few months, the Kennedy School published a report … on constructive conversations , Harvard sponsored a week of events about civil discourse , and the College publicly … the Intellectual Vitality Initiative . But the idea of fostering healthy disagreement on campus is not new. In …
Grow, Pick, Cook
… Agriculture (CSA) program and on-site farm stand, now offers year-round culinary workshops. The goal, says education and outreach coordinator Rachel … prepare it in easy and delicious ways.” Kaplan teaches many of the classes, including cheese-making, fermentation, and a …
Issue: March-April 2015
India's Dropping Wind-Power Potential
… In the latest climate-change catch-22 , the wind-power … Northern Hemisphere’s middle latitudes, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, are characterized by strong winds driven by …