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Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives
… On Wednesday, thousands of scientists around the globe—including at Harvard—paused research, meetings, … faculty members were minorities. By 2019, that figure had risen to 24 percent. But the number of tenured and …
Harvard Men Sweep Princeton and Penn
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last Wednesday, … Together, the victories suggested that after months of inconsistent play, the team has increased its offensive versatility and sharpened its focus—attributes …
Lowell, Not Coming to Dinner
… Abbott Lawrence Lowell, the University’s president from 1909 to 1933, looms large in … became public in 1922,” wrote John Bethell, former editor of Harvard Magazine , in Harvard Observed , his history of the institution during the twentieth century. “One arose …
New Fellows
… The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Lasky, of Menlo Park, California, and Lowell House, is a junior … and studied Argentine literature in Buenos Aires. Mulalu, of Gaborone, Botswana, and Adams House, is a sophomore …
Issue: September-October 2017
Law School Dean Kagan Nominated To Be U.S. Solicitor General
… Elena Kagan will be nominated to serve as Solicitor General of the United States, according to an announcement by … "If confirmed by the Senate, I will resign the deanship of the Law School and take a leave of absence from the …
“No Longer Eligible to Work at Harvard”
… As of October 15, 97 percent of on-campus employees were vaccinated. By December 8, in compliance with the Biden administration’s executive order of September 9, … Services Executive Director Giang T. Nguyen. Writing to the community last Friday, the four leaders said, “As a …
Harvard in Epigram
… arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Word of Fred R. Shapiro, J.D. ’77 (’80), in these pages first came in 1979 after he revived tiddlywinks … to end, Mrs. Parker said, she wouldn’t be at all surprised.” And finally, punks. “He had the good looks …
Issue: January-February 2007
Justice Falls Down
… The title of William J. Stuntz’s masterwork, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice , is at first …
Issue: March-April 2012
Running on Wind?
… research group has launched an extensive program to define the potential of wind power as a source of electricity... … 902 … Running on Wind? … 1514 … 8465 … …
Issue: March-April 2008
Harvard Calendar
… THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Miser, … a special Democratic National Convention-themed edition of their show Life: A Guide for the Perplexed, at the Loeb … hosts free observatory nights on the third Thursday of each month at 8 p.m., with sky viewing if weather …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard Begins Search for Engineering Dean
… A cting in her continuing capacity as Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean, Claudine Gay, the University’s president-elect, has initiated the search for a successor to School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) dean Frank Doyle. …
Siren Song
… October 31 , 2000, 4 p.m. I've just had one of those brief but potent conversations in which a casual comment by someone I scarcely know hits me with the force of revelation. I was on the phone with an editor at a …
Issue: September-October 2001
New Fellows
… This fall semester, seniors Isa Flores-Jones and Catherine “Cat” Zhang join this magazine’s editorial staff as … the November-December issue, and reporting on other aspects of student and University life, among other responsibilities. Flores-Jones, of Sacramento, balances history and literature coursework …
Issue: September-October 2018
Harvard Launches Center for LGBTQ Health
… The Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute announced the launch of a new LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence on June 4, in partnership with the Harvard …
Building Toward a Kidney
… “All right,” says David Kolesky, Ph.D. ’16. “The moment of truth.” As many times as he’s done this, … about to see what the morning’s work has yielded. In front of him on a glass slide is a two-inch chip maybe a …
Issue: January-February 2017