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Curating Murders
… Cannibalism, lethally potent aphrodisiacs, the embalming and display of a major financial donor--not routine agenda items at … the Oversight Committee that monitors the fictional Museum of Man (MOM), loosely affiliated with the equally fictional …
Issue: July-August 2010
“Acting As If” for 35 Seasons
… But as she enters her thirty-fifth season, she is the second-longest tenured head coach in Division One … women’s college basketball. She has the most overall wins of any coach in Ivy League men’s and women’s basketball … such enduring success are associated with a specific style of play. Pete Carril—the former Princeton men’s basketball …
Issue: November-December 2016
Design Dean Sarah Whiting to “Step Back” for Cancer Treatment
… The Graduate School of Design’s (GSD) new dean, Sarah … responsibilities so that I can begin treatment.” Professor of urban design and planning Rahul Mehrotra and … the pandemic. Which is precisely why Ron and I were so surprised to learn last week—and am now writing to share the …
Undergraduate Workers Unionize
… trainings to prepare, and he received a draft schedule with the café’s available shifts. Then, in early November, his … to explain his situation to the then-associate director of retail dining operations at Harvard and piece together … he wasn’t compensated for all the hours he worked at one of those other jobs—at a cafeteria on the Harvard Law School …
Cambridge 02138
… liberal but “equally eager to expose hypocrisy...from the political left.” I disagree. When Rich criticizes a … Is there not, however, a conflict between the interests of individual shareholders and the interests of … with Grey. When we contacted him, Pauly was surprised to learn that my grandmother was 14 when she met Grey …
Issue: May-June 2007
Puritan Party Time
… wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Of making books about Harvard there is no end, and here’s another, Veritas: Harvard … May. The author is Andrew Schlesinger ’70, son and grandson of two Harvard historians and himself the winner of two Emmy …
Issue: May-June 2005
Naomi Oreskes on How to Write about Science
… History of science professor Naomi Oreskes talks about climate change the way one might expect of both an earth scientist and a …
“Joyous Protest Posters”
… The lobby of Houghton Library—Harvard’s repository for rare books and manuscripts (as well as theatre and performing arts archives)—greets visitors with streaks of midnight blues, electric yellows, and blood reds. …
Beyond “Highbrow Amateurism”
… When I’m asked as a composer to make a prediction of what music will be like in 50 or a hundred years, I … that music will sound like than Brahms could have predicted the electric guitar. But the allure of peering into the future is always hard to resist. I have …
Issue: September-October 2011
Shakespeare after All
… When Kenan professor of English and American literature and language Marjorie … Harvard graduates at an "Alumni College" several years ago, the course was so popular that it had to be repeated. …
Issue: September-October 2004
Vote Now
… This spring , alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) elected directors. The slates appear below, in ballot order as determined by … N.Y. Vice president, head of strategy and group enterprises, MTV Entertainment Group. … … The Overseer and Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2021
Faust Appoints VP for Government, Community, and Public Affairs
… Faust appointed Christine Heenan, founder and president of Clarendon Group, a Providence, Rhode Island-based public … Boston University, was a business strategy consultant, and then entered government, serving on the Domestic Policy Council staff during the first term of the Clinton administration, focusing on health and …
Huntington D. Lambert Named Continuing Education Dean
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith has announced that Huntington D. Lambert will become the next dean of Harvard's Division of Continuing Education (DCE). Lambert …
“How War Has Made Us”
… President Drew Faust has often described how the battle to achieve civil rights for African Americans … Selma . Now, she has engaged with the other defining trauma of that era, the war in Vietnam. During an extended trip to …
News in Brief
… Decanal Duo… A professor returning to Harvard and one in continuing service … been appointed to lead Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS, part … holds no direct investments in fossil-fuel-producing enterprises and intends to reduce its indirect holdings in such …
Issue: November-December 2023