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Harvard Men Edge Yale and Brown
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report When Harvard … coach Tommy Amaker arrived in Cambridge in 2007, he professed his excitement about making “history” by leading … crowns and multiple NCAA tournament games. Yet none of this would have been possible had it not been for another …
Update: Harvard Medical International Transfers to Partners
… (HMI), an international medical-consulting arm of Harvard Medical School (HMS), officially changed hands this week. With the move to Partners HealthCare , the parent organization …
Retooling Tech Transfer
… called black silicon one day in 1998, he knew right away they were on to something. The material absorbs 50 percent … Light ,” May-June 2002, page 12). Mazur, now Balkanski professor of applied physics and professor of physics, remembers …
Issue: January-February 2008
Mapping the Human Brain
… Might memories and habitual actions be hardwired into the brain’s physical structure? Knowles professor of molecular and cellular biology Jeff Lichtman thinks it’s …
Issue: September-October 2024
"A Tutorial"
… Gilpin Faust began looking for a date when women presidents of Ivy League universities could convene for a panel discussion as part of the Radcliffe Institute’s “Voices of Public Intellectuals” … a university. For the most part, the visitors were surprised to find themselves moving from scholarship into …
Issue: July-August 2007
Harvard Will Guarantee Staff Pay and Benefits Past June 28
… benefits to staff members whose work has been idled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as dining and custodial workers, beyond its previously set date of June 28, executive vice president Katie Lapp announced in … the University has said that it may need to consider layoffs and furloughs to make up for revenue shortfalls caused …
Tough Love
… Harvard and other celebrated research universities “succeed, better than ever, as creators and repositories of knowledge,” declares Harry R. Lewis, dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003, in Excellence without …
Issue: July-August 2006
"...I don't care if I never get back."
… passers-by." Baseball fan Philip J. Lowry ’71, M.B.A. ’79, of Minnetonka, Minnesota, tossed out last November a revised and greatly enlarged edition of his classic Green Cathedrals, The Ultimate Celebration of Major League and Negro …
Issue: May-June 2007
Throwback Cuisine
… for hours ladling out his homemade apple cider to thousands of rain-soaked partygoers? In the Yard, on Friday night. Eric S. Chivian , founder and … feature of Harvard’s menu in the mid 1600s. The entrees comprised roast leg of lamb with mint jelly, chicken pie, and …
President Bacow and Adele Fleet Bacow Test Positive for Coronavirus
… President Lawrence S. Bacow advised the community this afternoon that he and his wife, Adele … positive for coronavirus and are in isolation. The text of his message reads: Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Earlier today, Adele and I learned …
New Fellows
… Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2014-2015 academic year—selected from among nearly 30 … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Munk, of Bellerose, New York (in Queens), and Leverett House, is … field in mind/brain/behavior. She is an associate editor of The Harvard Crimson’s magazine Fifteen Minutes and a …
Issue: September-October 2014
Comings and Goings
… Harvard-affiliated organizations host a variety of lectures, seminars, and social gatherings. For details, contact local clubs directly, call 617-495-3070, or visit www.haa.harvard.edu . Gundprofessor of neuroscience John Dowling and Asian art …
Issue: January-February 2004
Harvard Admits 8.7 Percent of Undergraduate Early Applicants
… Harvard College announced this evening that 692 of 7,921 early-action applicants were admitted to the class of 2028. This 8.7 percent acceptance rate compares to 7.5 …
Active Learning in Action
… The first video below shows physics professor Eric Mazur (profiled in the feature article " Twilight of the Lecture ") …
Football: Harvard 28, San Diego 13
… straight home opener on Saturday, scoring 21 points in the final quarter to repel a scrappy team from the University of San Diego, 28-13. The contest was gripping, and in its … trip to Stanford in 1949, and no team from the western half of the country had ever set foot in Harvard Stadium. The …