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McCordiana
… As readers of this page may know, the originator of the "College Pump" was the late David T. W. McCord '21, …
Adam Falk Address to PBK
… The Price of the Pin, Adam Falk, Harvard Literary Exercises, May 23, 2023 It’s truly an honor to have been invited to offer some remarks at this august gathering. I’ve spoken in …
University People
… Overseers’ Leaders Scott A. Abell ’72, past president of the Harvard Alumni Association, has been elected president of the Board of Overseers for 2017-2018, and Tracy P. …
Issue: July-August 2017
Seeing Spring
… In 2013, office-bound in a high-stress architecture job in Manhattan, Anna Agoston , M.Arch.II ’04, then an occasional photographer, rarely ventured outside. “I … in hand and flush with time, she began taking pictures of what grew in the sidewalk cracks on her street in …
Issue: May-June 2016
Summer Scholarship
… every half inch she can get and whose most violent act heretofore has been the butchering of syntactical convention by writing absurdly … of despair in preparation for throwing me a killer surprise party. Well done, Fates. I am incredibly lucky to have …
Making Organizations Moral
… In the early 2000s, a riptide of business scandals toppled … Andersen, and WorldCom. In the aftermath, says Straus professor of business administration Max Bazerman , “society …
Issue: November-December 2014
Harvard Corporation Elects Kenneth I. Chenault and Karen Gordon Mills
… The University announced today that Kenneth I. Chenault, … Gordon Mills ’75, M.B.A. ’77, have been elected members of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, … LL.D. ’01 ; they will conclude their service at the end of the academic year, as announced last October. Chenault is …
Campus, Interrupted
… ready to be molded. Correspondingly, it seemed as though the University was ready to subsume me; by catering to … to since March 2020. Initially, it was awkward. Our ways of relating to each other were grounded in expired … was back, walking in the other direction. I braced for a reprise of our awkwardness before he stopped and said, “I am so …
Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead , Swathi Kella
Issue: November-December 2021
Can Women Stop War?
… When Vanessa Lievano Gutierrez moved to Colombia in the late 1980s, the situation was dire: armed conflict raged … One night, her mother was forced to throw herself on top of her children to protect them from shattering glass when … has become: “I am part of that narrative of women who have risen through the ranks—64 percent of our Congress is …
Avant-garde, Post-Romantic
… There is nothing casual about the music of composer Hannah … “With any theft, your natural impulse is to want some form of retaliation,” she recalls. “That, to me, felt really …
Issue: January-February 2013
Jonathan and Christine Seidman
… As youngsters they were far apart—he spent much of his youth in … they met at Harvard, married in 1973, and share a deep tie of the heart, in more ways than one. Jonathan G. Seidman …
Issue: November-December 2002
Veterans Day Salute
… President Drew Faust and General George W. Casey Jr., Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, spoke, Harvard honored its military veterans …
Issue: January-February 2010
“We All Can Do Better”
… “Somewhat more than half” the students investigated for academic misconduct on a … were “required…to withdraw from the College for a period of time,” according to a message to faculty, staff, and students e-mailed by Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith on February …
Issue: March-April 2013
Report to Readers
… times —pandemic and inflation, polarized politics, the horrors of war in Europe— Harvard’s work matters more than ever . … the alumni and advertisers who choose to sustain this enterprise on all readers’ behalf. You can join them at …
Issue: January-February 2023
“Harvard Failed Her”
… In a message to the community this afternoon, President Lawrence S. Bacow … that Harvard had “failed” Terry Karl, now an emerita professor of government at Stanford, when it did not take … of female faculty members in the government department has risen from 9 percent in 1980 to 31.3 percent in 2019, …