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Shaina Taub Shares Suffragists in Song
… Shaina Taub—that she is a gravitational force “around whom others cluster like filings to a magnet”—came powerfully to … held the stage for nearly three hours. As part of a celebration for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in …
Exceeding Expectations
… This year marks the 150th anniversary of football at Harvard. (Because the … was canceled due to COVID, this is the 149th season of play.) But entering the 2023 season, the outlook for the …
Issue: November-December 2023
Safety Tips for Dating
… Safety Tips For Dating Dipping your foot into the dating pool can be fun. But, it's important to take … too good to be true, it probably is. Be very cautious of any communication you receive asking you to act … on first contact Asking for your address under the guise of sending you a present, flowers or a package …
Three Harvard Students Win Rhodes Scholarships [Updated]
… The Rhodes Trust has announced that two Harvard students … House. The Trust provided the following descriptions of the two winners. Fong is “majoring in Computer Science. … an advocate for autism-related causes, and was a director of Big Sibs program in Boston’s Chinatown. She is a member …
Education Executive
… Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education’s (HGSE) new dean, has already shown she can … controversy with poise. Three years ago, when she and other researchers from the National Institute of Child Health … about what graduate studies in education should comprise. HGSE master’s and doctoral candidates now take certain …
Issue: September-October 2006
Martin Karplus ’51 Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
… Martin Karplus '51 , Richards professor of chemistry emeritus , today was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, along with Michael Levitt, of …
Raj Chetty Will Return to Harvard
… Raj Chetty , professor of economics at Stanford and one of the world’s foremost …
Noel Michele Holbrook
… by Stu Rosner Missy Holbrook '83 grew up in a suburb of Washington, D.C., where she somehow conceived an interest … Palm Society travel grant sent her to Panama for a year off at a Smithsonian Institution research station in a … forest. Through hours of quiet contemplation of it, the forest stopped looking to her like a wall of green, as …
Issue: March-April 2003
Ivy League Cancels Winter Season
… With COVID-19 cases rising across the country, the Ivy League has canceled its winter athletic season. The statement by the Ivy League Council of Presidents, released yesterday, also noted that fall … season will also be postponed “through at least the end of February 2021.” “The unanimous decisions…follow extended …
Overseer and HAA Director Elections
… must be received by 5 p.m. (EDT) on May 19. All holders of Harvard degrees, except officers of instruction and government at Harvard, and members of the Harvard Corporation, are entitled to vote for Overseer …
Issue: March-April 2020
Overseer and HAA Director Elections
… On March 31, the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers announced … the annual voting for new Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), ordinarily running …
Issue: July-August 2020
Affording a Harvard Graduation
… Graduation is a rite of passage when families are united, tears are shed, and … “I can go to this event that costs $40, or I can eat for the day,” Lenica Morales-Valenzuela ’15 remembers thinking; she missed the majority of the Senior Week events because she chose to work Dorm …
“What Happened to the Dream?”
… Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84 , she feels like “forward progress in the world has stopped yet again.” On Wednesday evening, … “What happened to the dream?” Though King outlined a vision of equality in his famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, … reminded the audience that for every step forward, there is often a step back. Lynch served as U.S. attorney general …
Video: A Pitcher’s Grips
… , Harvard varsity baseball pitcher Brent Suter ’12 ( profiled in the May-June 2011 issue ) shows how he grips the baseball to … … Video: Baseball pitcher Brent Suter ’12 demonstrates four of his pitches … 1532 … 1521 … 1520 … 1507 … Video: A …
Cancer Treatment Gets Personal
… Cancers , long defined primarily by where they arose (breast, lung, blood cells, brain) are proving to … molecular makeup. This ability to understand the genetics of individual cancers is changing the way the disease is … genes put people at higher risk. But more often, cancer arises from so-called somatic mutations: genetic changes and …
Issue: November-December 2013