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Arts and Sciences Dean Search Begins
… J ust five days after she formally inaugurated the search for a successor School of Engineering and Applied Sciences dean, President-elect … formally launched the search for her successor as Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean. She vacates the post when …
Humanities Center Endowed by $10-Million Gift
… The Humanities Center at Harvard , an interdisciplinary hub … readings, conferences, and seminars within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has received a $10-million gift from Anand Mahindra '77, M.B.A. '81, in honor of his late mother, Indira Mahindra. (See "A Humanist Who …
Harvard Begins President Search
… The Harvard Corporation launched the search for a successor … announced on June 14 that she plans to step down at the end of this academic year , on June 30, 2018. As Lee explained … published on June 21 , the search committee consists of the 12 Corporation members (excluding Faust) and three …
Super Drugs for Super Bugs
… Last spring brought alarming reports of the first known case of a germ resistant to colistin, … Technology have shown just how quickly drug resistance can arise in a population of bacteria. A video (below) produced …
Issue: November-December 2016
“Let Us Begin Again”
… This dispatch has been retitled; due to a recording error, the president's phrase "Let us begin again" was originally … below, and a link has been posted to the transcript of her remarks, which was not available earlier. Beginning … 350th-anniversary celebration in 1986 (and was reprised at the 375th-anniversary Commencement in May 2012 ). ( …
Seven Harvard Affiliates Named HHMI Investigators
… The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced today that it … research. Among those named a 2021 HHMI investigator is professor of chemistry and chemical biology Emily Balskus, whose …
Cambridge 02138
… Getting Social Security Right I appreciate Professor Jeffrey B. Liebman’s recognition (“ Reforming Social Security ,” March-April, page 30) of the “third group” that believes “that Social Security was … to some of his FAS opponents, who expressed “surprise” as soon as the votes were announced. What follows is …
Issue: May-June 2005
Football: Harvard 41, Rhode Island 10
… and you’re bound to see something new. And so it was that the Harvard football team alighted this past Saturday for … in Division I, trailing only the 16 straight wins of Football Bowl Subdivision defending champion Ohio State. … is now 117-23-2 in season openers. (Rhode Island, a member of the Colonial Athletic Conference, drops to 0-3, having …
Radcliffe Institute Dean Appointed
… President Drew Faust on April 28 appointed Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz, a Harvard faculty member since 1986, to the deanship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study …
Hannah Lash: Avant-garde, Post Romantic
… Composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10, profiled in the January-February 2013 issue , discusses how she develops … ideas for her compositions and plays with some examples of such ideas at the piano. …
On Being “Printerly”
… In her introduction to Contact: Art and the Pull of Print , Jennifer L. Roberts wants you to know … won’t be mentioned past this very deliberate point of omission: “reproduction” and its various associated …
Issue: July-August 2024
Want Freshmen to Bond? Take Them on a Hiking Trip
… While backpacking through the New England wilderness, I am often fearful of taking a turn down a wrong path. Usually, I am not alone: …
Renewing Civic Education
… this sound even vaguely like what is now understood to be the purpose of higher education? Wisdom, and knowledge, as well as … to be spread across the curriculum. Natural opportunities arise everywhere. Every academic, professional, or vocational …
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann , Harry R. Lewis
Issue: March-April 2012
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
… received by 5 p.m. EDT on May 21 to be counted. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote for Overseer candidates. The election for HAA directors is open to all Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2019
Crimson Hoopsters Earn First National Ranking
… strong 8-0 start capped by an 80-70 home win over Seattle, the Harvard men's basketball team, reigning co-champions of the Ivy League, have recorded the best opening of a Crimson campaign since the 1984-85 season. The …