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Pending Business: Social Organizations
… Separately , at the May 2 meeting, FAS members adopted changes to the … routine. “In keeping with the University’s articulation of belonging and inclusion,” gendered pronouns will be … law permitting recreational use for adults); smoking (of tobacco, including vaping); and final examinations in …
John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
Issue: July-August 2017
Lapp Letter
… Note to readers: this is an accessible version of an original letter February 23, 2022 Dear Mayor Wu, … and Harvard Allston Task Force Members, In his letter to the Harvard Allston Task Force on December 6 th , President … by the extensive public review process related to the Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) Phase A plan, and Harvard’s …
A Woman's Studies
… I am a women's-studies concentrator. After a two-year stint of floating through five large academic departments while … I have--to put it mildly--seen all that Harvard has to offer. And I love women's studies. For the first time in my life, I am actually engaged with my …
Issue: March-April 2002
Football 2021: Harvard 38, Holy Cross 13
… On Saturday, in a football game that had more reversals of fortune than a James Bond movie, Harvard staked itself to … a large halftime lead, allowed Holy Cross to creep back in, then finally put away the doughty Crusaders to win 38-13. … failed. Harvard 24, Holy Cross 6. Then the Crusaders surprised the Crimson by recovering an onside kick. (We had an …
Proof Positive
… This type of unconventional clock is commonly used to illustrate … clock has 7 “hours”; each “hour” position holds a set of numbers that are congruent modulo 7, or separated by … 7. For one particularly elusive set of equations, earlier mathematicians located an ingenious but labor-intensive …
Issue: September-October 2008
Two Projects Proceeding
… In January, the University placed a $480-million debt offering, in part … to retire existing borrowings but also for $219 million of “project costs,” the majority associated with Harvard Law …
Issue: March-April 2010
Makeda Best: What Does Landscape Photography Say About Our Politics?
… PHOTOGRAPHY SAY ABOUT OUR POLITICS? Makeda Best, curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums and a visiting professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, shares her …
Finding Their Stride?
… Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Entering Saturday’s … team had thrived or perished based on the performance of reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Wesley Saunders ’15. Against the University of …
Accidental Entrepreneurs
… rooted in frustration: Wellie Chao '98 couldn't find decent office space in Manhattan; Thong Le '98 was sick of eating fattening fast food on the run. And others stem from some offhand observation that …
Issue: September-October 2004
Family Spirit, Wetly
… deciders moved Commencement forward from early June, they focused on the delights of late May (and were rewarded with 92-degree heat midweek, … and warmth. After a rain delay (and a merciful shortening of the formalities), the afternoon exercises proceeded with …
Issue: July-August 2017
Music, Italian Style
… Editor’s note: Knafel professor of music Thomas Forrest Kelly is widely known for his “First Nights” course on the debut of significant works of music (the course, which …
William Kaelin Wins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
… William Kaelin , Farber professor of medicine, has won the Nobel Prize in physiology or …
New Fellows
… The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Browne, of West Point, New York, and Adams House, is a senior … He is a staff writer for The Harvard Advocate and a member of the Signet Society. After summers previously spent doing …
Issue: September-October 2016
Honoris Causa
… degrees at Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced the honorands, and President Drew Faust read the citations, … S. O’Neill, Ph.D. ’69. A life peer in the British House of Lords, past president of the British Academy, professor of philosophy at the …
Issue: July-August 2010
Gail Collins on “When Everything Changed”
… New York Times columnist Gail Collins, author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present, gave this year’s …