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Harvard Management Company Names New President
… The Harvard Management Company (HMC) board of directors … Mendillo will become HMC’s president and chief executive officer, effective July 1. Mendillo has served as chief …
Tomiko Brown-Nagin to Lead Radcliffe Institute
… Tomiko Brown-Nagin , Paul professor of constitutional law and professor of history, has been named dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She will take up …
Football: Harvard 17, Holy Cross 27
… Well, there goes your undefeated season. That was not only the only mark of perfection that was a casualty of the Harvard football team’s 27-17 loss to Holy Cross this …
The Will of the Donor
… As an intern at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in the summer of 2023, I spent my days in a sun-drenched Tuscan … beautiful, serene, and patrician. I spent the better part of my time there staring at one photograph of a bronze bust. …
Issue: November-December 2024
Active Learning in Action
… The first video below shows physics professor Eric Mazur (profiled in the feature article " Twilight of the Lecture ") …
After Five Decades, Dean Dingman Bids Harvard Farewell
… Last November , as the debate was raging over Harvard’s policy to sanction … in unrecognized single-gender social organizations, dean of freshmen Thomas Dingman made an impassioned speech about the place of final clubs at the College. “I am not accustomed to …
Public Health with Empathy
… W hen Ophelia Dahl was 18, she traveled from her home in the English countryside to poverty-stricken Haiti. In rural … laying the listen-first-fix-after groundwork for the nonprofit they co-founded, Partners In Health (PIH). Nearly 40 … approach to public health has helped treat millions of patients for HIV, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and …
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 …
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
Melissa Harris-Perry Asks, “Who’s Choosin’ Who?”
… began her presentation with an apology. “I fear there could be spelling errors in the slides,” she warned … a joke. I have an eight-month-old, and a TV show.” The host of the eponymous MSNBC news and talk program Melissa … is also a columnist for The Nation . She is a chaired professor of politics and international affairs at her alma …
Important Paper in Regenerative Biology Retracted
… An important scientific paper in the field of stem-cell and regenerative medicine that … mice has been retracted by its senior author, associate professor of stem-cell and regenerative biology Amy Wagers, …
President Faust, Dean Harris Address Academic Misconduct
… In the wake of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith’s February 1 statement on the Administrative Board investigation of widespread …
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
Courtney B. Vance Named Harvard Alumni Day Speaker
… Actor , producer, and writer Courtney B. Vance ’82 will be the featured speaker at the third annual Harvard Alumni Day, a University-wide celebration of alumni hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). … take place on Friday, May 31, also includes recognition of the 2024 Harvard Medalists , remarks from Interim …
Walker Evans Works on Display in Mather House
… Most people know Walker Evans as a craftsman who captured the lives of Great Depression workers and families in evocative, … lyrical photographs. But for Christie McDonald, Smith professor of French language and literature and co-master of …