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Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events, especially during the academic year. For information on club programs for the …
Issue: September-October 2008
Chapter & Verse
… James MacKillop writes, "The quotation, 'The map appears to us more real than the … (sometimes misquoted as 'The map appears to be... ') is often ascribed to D.H. Lawrence. It is not, however, to be … story" about a boy who at night could hear the "long ah" of the ocean surf far below his bedroom window and who read …
Issue: September-October 2004
Yenching Plundered
… 2000, that books and scrolls with an estimated market value of $1 million were missing from a safe at the Harvard-Yenching Library at 2 Divinity Avenue in … are 33 books, a handwritten scroll, a painting in the form of a hanging scroll, and 10 individual volumes (comparable …
David Deming Announced as Harvard College Dean
… Hopi Hoekstra announced that David Deming will serve as the next Harvard College Dean. The Dean oversees the … At the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), he is the Black professor of political economy, and previously served as both academic …
Harvard Presidential Search Begins
… Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation since July 1 , today advised the … is formally under way. In an email message issued on behalf of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, Pritzker …
Scrubbing Supply Chains
… Harvard leveraged construction of its massive new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) in … manufacturers into removing hazardous chemicals from their supply chains, the University reports. Heather … Henriksen, the University’s principal sustainability officer, and Elsie Sunderland, the Gordon McKay professor of …
Past’s Presence
… The Radcliffe Institute’s annual barbecue felt a bit like a cafeteria on the first day of high school. Heavy rains the previous night forced the … place to sit. In the line for the buffet, a woman in front of me politely asked what I was studying. I told her, …
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 …
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 …
Reading Tea Leaves
… Nobody knows exactly how many plant specimens there are in the Harvard University Herbaria. Five to six … numbers matter, because Herbaria director Charles Davis, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, aspires to digitize …
Issue: September-October 2016
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
Animal Research Reforms
… During the past half-century, experiments at Harvard Medical … Primate Research Center (NEPRC) have yielded a long list of scientific accomplishments, including insights into … research and focused instead on lapses in the care of NEPRC’s more than 2,000 monkeys. In June 2010, a …
Issue: May-June 2012
Cambridge 02138
… cover story about Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s re-assessment of the civil rights movement (“ Both Sides Now, ” … the several hundred participants in this remarkable enterprise whom I interviewed during my research nor any of the …
Issue: March-April 2022
“A Profession Based on Honor and Trust”
… In the past decade, President Drew Faust has honored 74 Harvard students as they took their oaths of office during Commencement week’s annual Reserve Officers’ …
Six Harvard Students Win Rhodes Scholarships
… The Rhodes Trust has announced that five Harvard seniors … Scholarships this fall. Among them, one is vice president of the Harvard Islamic Society and co-founder of the Ivy League Muslim Council, a second is pursuing …