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… College Admissions Challenges In late june , the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the limited use of race in admissions decisions, ruling in its second pass … ranks, the underrepresented minority share has risen only one percentage point (to 11 percent) during that …
Issue: September-October 2016
Newly elected Overseers and HAA directors
… The new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
Issue: July-August 2022
Imperial Salukis
… “Chinese emperors were expected to be cultured gentlemen, whether they were or not,” says Robert D. Mowry, Dworsky curator of Chinese art at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. They were … in ink and light colors on a paper album leaf, is the work of the fifth Ming emperor, Zhu Zhanzi, who is usually known …
Issue: May-June 2007
Brevia
… Pioneers George Q. Daley Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Xiaoliang Sunney Xie Courtesy Xiaoliang Sunney Xie The National Institutes of Health inaugurated its "Director's Pioneer …
Issue: January-February 2005
Nuclear War in Korea? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent
… Back in April, shortly after I accepted an offer to teach English in South Korea for the academic year ahead, I started getting questions from … which is directly in the line of fire. They might be surprised to find that, at least to judge from newspaper …
Get Out Your Photo Albums
… albums, or pore over your digital archives, and send us the images that convey your favorite memories of Harvard Commencement. (For inspiration, see photographer Jim Harrison's contributions in " The Essence of Commencement ," our visual feature from the May-June …
Getting In
… "Yes!" I shouted, punching the air as I hung up the phone. I jumped off the bed where I had been keeping vigil all morning and … my wife. She was coming up the stairs from her basement office. "Well?" she asked, her eyes anxious until she saw …
Harvard Graduate Leads in NBA Analytics
… Jason Rosenfeld ’12 didn’t delude himself with dreams of athletic stardom. “As you could probably tell by looking at me,” he says in the opening minute of a Zoom interview, “I’m not tall or athletic enough to …
Issue: July-August 2021
Revitalizing Tozzer
… The Tozzer Library building on Divinity Avenue adjacent to … reconstruction during the next year and a half as part of a $20-million Faculty of Arts and Sciences project to consolidate the anthropology …
Issue: November-December 2012
"We Need a Win"
… note: More people than ever before seem to be seeking the U.S. presidency. Rather than profile alumni who are running for office, we asked Garrett … did not hold a single statewide office. To the surprise of nearly everyone, he won by a narrow margin, thanks …
Issue: September-October 2007
Developing Deans, Calendar Consensus
… what he characterized last October as a “formidable agenda” of substantive work, Derek Bok pursued less publicized ways to improve Harvard’s operations, from the grooming of future deans to the seemingly mundane matter of aligning …
Issue: July-August 2007
Mice Aren’t Men
… People like to think experiments using the scientific method proceed according to airtight … its own tenets, and call into question whole categories of experiments. A recent paper coauthored by associate professor of pediatrics H. Shaw Warren does just that. In a …
Issue: May-June 2013
Public Health with Empathy
… W hen Ophelia Dahl was 18, she traveled from her home in the English countryside to poverty-stricken Haiti. In rural … laying the listen-first-fix-after groundwork for the nonprofit they co-founded, Partners In Health (PIH). Nearly 40 … approach to public health has helped treat millions of patients for HIV, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and …
Courtney B. Vance Named Harvard Alumni Day Speaker
… Actor , producer, and writer Courtney B. Vance ’82 will be the featured speaker at the third annual Harvard Alumni Day, a University-wide celebration of alumni hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). … take place on Friday, May 31, also includes recognition of the 2024 Harvard Medalists , remarks from Interim …
From Specialty to Shortage
… When Susan Block , a professor of psychiatry and medicine, started practicing medicine more than three decades ago, there was no formal field of palliative care. Today, it is …
Issue: March-April 2015