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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
Cambridge 02138
… Touchpoints… Like other critical scholars, pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton and … his colleagues work to ensure that children and families of diverse backgrounds benefit directly from their research … Wisc. Kudos to the Brazelton Touchpoints Center, part of Children's Hospital Boston, for their terrific work …
Issue: March-April 2012
Overseer and Director Elected Candidates
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own …
Issue: March-April 2023
Larry Summers Reflects
… In the decade since Lawrence H. Summers departed Massachusetts … Hall, the former Harvard president, now Eliot University Professor, took a sabbatical; resumed teaching; joined … financial system, which is critical to buffering crises, and one party doesn’t understand trade. I am sure …
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
The End of Murphy Time
… On Thursday , during a Zoom media conference the day after announcing his retirement, Tim Murphy was informed by Harvard director of athletics Erin McDermott that no one could hear him … head coach for Harvard football—was stepping away was a surprise but perhaps not a shock. In October he will turn 68. …
Freedom from Food
… Weight-conscious adults ordered salads with dressings on the side, requested coffee without milk or sugar, and ate unflavored rice cakes. Her high-school friends followed along. “None of us were overweight,” she says. “But everybody always …
Issue: September-October 2022
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
Finding Fuller
… can blame me? Toby "Hank" Fuller Jr. worked his way up from the junior-varsity football team to play right end on the varsity squad. As a surprise last-minute addition to the hockey team, he scored the … and honorable that he shouldered the blame when the dean of the College summoned him to University Hall to account …
Issue: May-June 2003
Harvard College Reports on Cheating Inquiry
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith this … Harvard College faculty, staff, and students, reporting on the investigation of academic misconduct announced last August: indications …
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 …
Harvesting History
… Ferry, West Virginia, William W. Sellers ’90 stops at the brick guard house where abolitionist John Brown was … for what’s good and right?” asks Sellers, president of a national heritage organization that includes Harpers … growth—continues, however, as the region’s population rises. Sellers speaks often on issues like proposed housing …
Issue: May-June 2018
Football: Harvard 23, Dartmouth 21
… But he seems to know his football. In both contests, the Crimson jumped to a 14-0 lead, then let the foe back … play. The Crimson thus kept pace with Penn, which held off Brown to also remain undefeated in league play. Harvard … Columbia.) “Once again our kids really showed up in terms of character, grit, resilience, when we really had to,” …
McCordiana
… As readers of this page may know, the originator of the "College Pump" was the late David T. W. McCord '21, …
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