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Alumni Interviewer Honors
… This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards —the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71, as well—recognize eight … and interview prospective undergraduates. Eric Behrens ’70, of Piedmont, California, became an alumni interviewer in …
Issue: November-December 2020
The Sum of Our Choices
… A market-like notion of personal choice has come to pervade ways of thinking about everything from what flavor of ice cream to order or whom to date to the most fraught issues in political or ideological …
Issue: May-June 2025
Inhibited Killers
… was widely considered a deplorable and tragic phenomenon of inner cities. Experts linked childhood aggression to … demographics and socioeconomics are much weaker predictors of future aggression than two other factors. Physical punishment by parents, and inhibited …
Issue: September-October 2002
Appeals Court Rules in Harvard’s Favor in Admissions Lawsuit
… The First Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld Harvard’s use of race in admissions, the latest ruling in a yearslong lawsuit alleging that the …
University People
… Security Secretary Juliette N. Kayyem Kennedy School of Government lecturer in public policy Juliette N. Kayyem ’91, J.D. ’95, was appointed undersecretary of homeland security, a new position, by newly elected … Kayyem has worked extensively on terrorism, security, and the law. Of Lebanese and American descent, she is the only …
Issue: March-April 2007
Skipper with a Stopwatch
… Jason Saretsky, Harvards new head coach of cross country and track and field (he succeeds Frank … competed as a middle-distance runner, specializing in the 800-meter run, which many identify as the most painful … meets the distance runner, and the sustained intensity of effort induces a ferocious lactic-acid burn late in the …
Issue: November-December 2006
Searching Insights
… A Harvard presidential search naturally culminates in the appointment of a new Harvard president. ( For coverage of the … at its plans for commercial development of an “enterprise research zone” nearby, closer to the Charles River and …
Issue: March-April 2018
Harvard Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by … at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 25, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All holders of Harvard degrees, except …
Issue: March-April 2017
Teaching Nutrition in Medical Education
… final semester this spring, she was in part motivated by the benefits to her own health. Students get to cook and eat during class, while learning how to take better care of themselves amid the rigors of medical school. Plus, it meant free food. But she was …
Legitimate Leadership?
… What makes a government legitimate? Adams professor of political leadership and democratic values Arthur I. … Applbaum believes that legitimacy entails “genuinely having the moral right to rule.” By this right, he explains, …
Issue: March-April 2020
Radioactive Relic
… For several decades, Harvard physics professors have shared a small block of uranium with their students. It is a strange object: although the cube …
Issue: September-October 2024
Harvard CFO Dan Shore to Depart
… , Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer since 2008, will relinquish that position at the end of September, it was announced today. He is joining … been "a true honor." He called his move to the new enterprise "the right opportunity at the right time, but Harvard …
Vanished Acts
… to shake with passers-by." Three worthy books full of Harvard references have arrived on the shelf. The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies … Society. The lascivious behavior of Harvard students arises quickly in her book. In 1660 witnesses spotted in a …
Issue: January-February 2008
Football 2019: Dartmouth 9, Harvard 6
… you are bound to experience bitter losses. But few in the annals of Harvard gridiron lore have been as heart-ripping, … literally snatched from victory suffered at the hands of Dartmouth on Saturday at Harvard Stadium. It was all the …
Alumni Gatherings
… Upcoming Alumni Colleges include “Women in the War Zone” and “Harvard in the Olympics.” The events are … Women in the War Zone in the Twentieth Century,” offered with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, includes two hours of lectures and a behind-the-scenes tour of the library’s …
Issue: November-December 2005