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New Fellows
… This fall the magazine welcomes seniors Che Applewhaite and Meena … Undergraduate Fellows. Besides alternating as authors of the “Undergraduate” column, starting in the next issue, … about student activities and concerns and other aspects of Harvard life. Applewhaite, of London, Mount Hope …
Issue: September-October 2020
Cambridge 02138
… Va. While I applaud and appreciate Atul Gawande the surgeon as writer (“ The Unlikely Writer ,” by Elizabeth … page 30), I wish you had engaged a health professional with some knowledge of infection control as medical editor. The cover photo of …
Issue: November-December 2009
Turbines, Bats, and Rubber Stamps
… International court hearings don’t typically fall within the purview of American legal education. Yet in my three years at … Hong Kong, and India—so when a friend from a German nonprofit invited me to observe a provincial court hearing just …
Learning About Teaching Now
… Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) conference, the seventh annual iteration, held on September 21, … in improved teaching, and the continuing challenges of attaining those ambitions in the context of a broad … role is, and how successful and influential that enterprise has been. Kosslyn observed that given the ubiquity of …
"You Can Go Elsewhere for a Job, but You Cannot Go Elsewhere for a Soul”
… against President Donald Trump and his administration, the “America First crowd,” and fellow members of Congress for lying “utterly supine in the face of the … seem “trivial” given the grave cultural and political crises of the day. He said he supports solutions which are …
Angela Merkel Named Harvard Commencement Speaker
… In a surprise early announcement, Harvard has named Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany since 2005, its speaker for the 368th Commencement ceremonies, taking place on May 30, …
Harvard President Alan Garber’s Alumni Day Speech
… alumni and friends. My task today is to update you on the state of the University. This has not been a typical year, so this … months, Harvard has attracted an extraordinary amount of attention. Unless you have been living off the grid—or on …
Football: Harvard 41, Cornell 31
… The Crimson and Big Red football teams struggled mightily … Jeff Mathews to receiver Shane Savage on the third play of the game. Mathews, last season’s Ivy League rookie of the year, finished the game with 322 passing yards and …
An Adventure On Wheels
… week, when Brad Riew ’17 met Kunho Kim ’17 outside Thayer, their future dorm. Kim hails from South Korea; Riew is from … they both loved travel and adventures, and both dreamed of completing a road trip around the United States. Excited, … a ski trick. But the two freshmen decided that their dream of seeing the United States would not be crushed. Yet, …
”Like Something Christenberry Pictured”
… Beta Kappa poet, Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow, and professor of English at Brown University, reads one of her works. Listen to the live audio recording. …
A Composed Response
… One morning in the spring of 2015, the composer Jonathan Bailey Holland, … Ph.D. ’00, was riding the bus to Boston’s Berklee College of Music (now the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where …
Issue: January-February 2018
Ruth Simmons to Join Harvard as Senior Adviser
… announced that Ruth Simmons, Ph.D. ’73, LL.D. ’02,will join the University as senior adviser to the president on … year by a Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. Among other actions, the committee called on … with HBCUs”—and suggested doing so through “the expansion of existing collaborations” with “research-focused HBCUs” …
Art Across Borders
… Osman Khalid Waheed ’93 and Qudsia Rahim were organizing the inaugural Lahore Biennale, a large-scale international … holding [the project] back,” says John Tain ’96, curator of the third edition of the biennale, which opened October 6 and will run until …
Harvard Goes Dancing
… Last Sunday , the Harvard women’s basketball team convened in the Murr Center’s Hall of History , surrounded by reminders of the University’s athletic tradition, including a photo …
No Hoof, No Horse
… beside Sunny’s dappled belly, Hilary Cloos ’96 holds his hoof in her lap, digging out the dirt and nipping down the hoof wall, as any good pedicurist would. “Come on, good boy,” …
Issue: March-April 2015