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Ed School Announces Harvard Teacher Fellows Program
… With a lead gift of $10 million—one of the largest in the school’s history—the Harvard Graduate …
Dolores Huerta to Receive Radcliffe Medal
… Dolores Huerta , the labor and civil-rights activist who co-founded the … immigrant farm workers; alongside Cesar Chavez, she was one of the leaders of the Delano grape strike, a five-year labor strike and …
Aloian Memorial Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Fariba Mahmud ’22, of Winthrop House, and Courtney Rabb ’22, of Eliot House, as the 2021 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial …
Issue: November-December 2021
Honoris Causa
… 354th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement audience, and President Lawrence H. Summers read the citations. In order of presentation, the honorands were: David Baltimore. One of the world’s most influential molecular biologists, …
Issue: July-August 2005
Creative Kitchens
… Brattle St., 617-864-2100; aldenharlow.com), which replaced the local landmark Casablanca earlier this year, is well on … spots to eat and drink, depending on one’s mood, and a menu of inventive, even brash, combinations of tastes and textures, all in the form of “American-style …
Issue: May-June 2014
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
… The HAA Clubs and SIGs (Shared Interest Groups) Committee … following recipients were to be honored at the HAA Board of Directors’ winter meeting on February 6. Rowena S. Frazer ’76, of Hoover, Alabama. Officially the program chair of the …
Issue: March-April 2014
Brevia
… Astronomy agenda. The next-generation, 24.5-meter (aperture) Giant Magellan Telescope—supported by a 13-member consortium of universities and science institutions, prominently … Harvard—has been recommended for federal support as part of the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program. Such funding, …
Issue: January-February 2022
Part of the Ensemble
… When Madeline Benson ’14 became the youngest woman to conduct on Broadway—stepping in to lead the band during a 2016 performance of Waitress as a 24-year-old assistant music director and … For many years, the church orchestra consisted of Benson, her older brother, and her mom. The experience …
Issue: July-August 2024
Work Zone
… That sound heard on campus this summer, after the post-Great Recession stillness, was of earth moving again—and steel being lifted and concrete poured, making Harvard modern. The reconstruction of the Fogg Art Museum proceeded most visibly ( progressing …
Issue: September-October 2012
Harvard Women Win National Squash Championship
… With an 8-1 trouncing of Yale in the final of the College Squash Association (CSA) tournament on …
Graduate School Doubles Paid Time Off for Student Parents
… to 12 paid weeks away from teaching or research, double the current six-week benefit, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) announced last week. “I’m very … as much as we can.” He said GSAS made the change in light of conversations with students about their needs. To …
University People
… Farewell Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Elizabeth Mora On April 15, vice president for finance Elizabeth Mora , Harvard’s chief financial officer, “announced her intention to step down” as of mid May, at the conclusion of budgeting for the next fiscal year, …
Issue: July-August 2008
Stunned
… On Saturday evening, the mood in the Harvard men’s basketball locker room was … on his head. The team’s jerseys were stacked in the center of the room, and a pair of reporters lingered as the players … more competitive and nationally relevant. The stakes have risen, and if Harvard wants to win again, it will need to …
Commencement Confetti
… Musical Messages Among the tributes to Representative John Lewis during the Morning Exercises was the choir’s performance of “We Are…,” by Ysaÿe Maria Barnwell, who was a member of the African-American ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock …
Issue: July-August 2018
Portraying Larry Summers
… Sixteen years after the portrait of President Neil L. Rudenstine (1991-2001) was unveiled in the Faculty Room in University Hall, that of his successor, Lawrence H. Summers (2001-2006), was …
Issue: November-December 2022