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Helping Hands
… “I got punched in the head an hour ago,” says Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, M.D. ’24 … May 11, when he and 29 other novice fighters spar in front of 2,000 people at Boston’s MGM Music Hall to raise money … is Yaqui on his mother’s side and an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe on his father’s side—is …
Issue: May-June 2023
2022 Aloian Scholarship Winners
… The Harvard Alumni Association named Stephany Zhivotovsky ’23, of Cabot House, and Adam Aleksic ’23, of Kirkland House, as this year’s David and Mimi Aloian …
Issue: November-December 2022
Don’t Eat Amanitas
… North Americans on rambles through the woods may come upon any of thousands of species of wild mushrooms. A very few are delicious. …
Issue: September-October 2010
Harvard Unveils $6.5-Billion Capital Campaign
… The University this afternoon revealed the $6.5-billion goal … Pledges and gifts received during the initial phase of the new campaign total $2.8 billion. The campaign’s … robust growth. •Financial aid : Much as student need has risen—visibly in the College, but no less urgently for …
Harvard Credit for High-Schoolers
… “This is a story about kids succeeding, about the success of an experiment,” says Cabot professor of … received either an A or a B; 10 percent failed. One surprise, though, Cornfeld says: in follow-up surveys, students …
Issue: March-April 2020
Trauma and Social Injustice
… “There’s actually been no institutional relationship between personal healing and social justice,” says professor of psychiatry Richard Mollica, M.D., director of the … betrayed, and felt that their ongoing social and economic crises were not addressed. Many survivors felt the courts …
Issue: March-April 2008
Ryan Enos
… When government professor Ryan Enos was growing up, gifts always came wrapped in a map. His father was a navigator for the U.S. Air Force, who used a … 2001, Enos taught with Teach For America on the South Side of Chicago, a city that “in many ways was defined by …
Issue: November-December 2019
Justice Falls Down
… The title of William J. Stuntz’s masterwork, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice , is at first …
Issue: March-April 2012
Yale's Endowment Performance Edges Harvard's
… returns on its endowment were negative 24.6 percent during the volatile fiscal year ended last June 30. That result was … Company (HMC) reported on September 10. In all, the value of Yale's endowment declined 28.8 percent during the fiscal … billion to $16.3 billion, reflecting investment losses of $5.6 billion, spending in support of the university's …
Gore Speaks on Sustainability
… Al Gore ’69, LL.D. ’94, told a packed Tercentenary Theatre audience of nearly 10,000 Harvard students, faculty, and staff … fuels. When you pull that thread,” he said, “all of these crises begin to unravel and you hold in your hand the …
Honoring Alumni Leaders
… At its winter meeting, the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) celebrated both those … Lewis Auerbach ’63, A.M. ’64, who, during nearly 40 years of leadership with the Harvard Club of Ottawa, has fostered a strong sense of community among …
Issue: March-April 2020
Something New, Something Old
… more so than during its Commencement rituals. The entry for “Academic regalia of Harvard University” in the undergraduates’ new best … the United States, Harvard University has a long tradition of academic dress. Harvard gown facings bear crow’s-feet …
More Than One Paradigm Shift...
… Eliot Spitzer , J.D. ’84, identified in publicity for the event (including an advertisement in the November 6 Crimson ) as former governor and attorney general of New York, will give a talk hosted by Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics as part of a lecture series on "the question of institutional …
Chapter & Verse
… Editor’s note: “If anything can go wrong, it will,” officially identified as “Murphy’s Law” in our copy of John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, struck six months … short-circuited all e-mails addressed to this department. The error was only recently discovered. We apologize to all …
Issue: November-December 2007
Accelerating Medical Research
… watched—and which films similar viewers have enjoyed. Is there an analogy to this powerful recommendation protocol applicable to medicine? Nelson professor of biomedical informatics Isaac Kohane thinks so. … to support nascent biotechnology and life-sciences enterprises. The gift, from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, …
Issue: January-February 2019