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Harvard Will Guarantee Staff Pay and Benefits Past June 28
… benefits to staff members whose work has been idled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as dining and custodial workers, beyond its previously set date of June 28, executive vice president Katie Lapp announced in … the University has said that it may need to consider layoffs and furloughs to make up for revenue shortfalls caused …
Beyond “Highbrow Amateurism”
… When I’m asked as a composer to make a prediction of what music will be like in 50 or a hundred years, I … that music will sound like than Brahms could have predicted the electric guitar. But the allure of peering into the future is always hard to resist. I have …
Issue: September-October 2011
Flexible Movies
… “ You never see cartoons where there are bad outcomes,” says Michelle Crames, M.B.A. ’03, founder and CEO of Lean Forward Media in Los Angeles. “But bad outcomes are often the result of bad decisions.” Last year, Crames’s …
Issue: May-June 2007
Tamara Elliott Rogers to Step Down
… development, announced today that she would step down at the end of 2018. The timing is logical: The Harvard Campaign, which she has directed, concludes June 30 (the end of the academic year), as does the presidency of Drew Faust, …
Harvard Women Win National Squash Championship
… With an 8-1 trouncing of Yale in the final of the College Squash Association (CSA) tournament on …
"...I don't care if I never get back."
… passers-by." Baseball fan Philip J. Lowry ’71, M.B.A. ’79, of Minnetonka, Minnesota, tossed out last November a revised and greatly enlarged edition of his classic Green Cathedrals, The Ultimate Celebration of Major League and Negro …
Issue: May-June 2007
"A Very Intimate and Painful Reckoning"
… During her regular remarks at a Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on Tuesday, Dean Claudine Gay … few moments to address a recent “difficult revelation” from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, about hundreds of hair …
Design Dean Sarah Whiting to “Step Back” for Cancer Treatment
… The Graduate School of Design’s (GSD) new dean, Sarah … responsibilities so that I can begin treatment.” Professor of urban design and planning Rahul Mehrotra and … the pandemic. Which is precisely why Ron and I were so surprised to learn last week—and am now writing to share the …
Teaching and Learning Abroad
… She was, after all, a volunteer for WorldTeach, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization affiliated with the Harvard Center for International Development that places … found his way to Kenya. Before long, and much to his surprise, he was called before the head of the local village …
Issue: January-February 2008
An Educated Core
… likely to become central issues for colleges in a way that they haven’t been for a long time,” wrote Nicholas Lemann ’76 in early 2016 in The Chronicle of Higher Education . Past experience as dean of Columbia’s … a broad “common curriculum.” In its present form, that comprises 10 courses: Literature & Humanities (L&H) 1 and 2 and …
Issue: July-August 2017
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
… In Joplin, Missouri, a group of women that includes Harvard alumnae is creating a new college of dental medicine, helping to bridge a gap that seldom makes headlines: the scarcity of oral health care in rural America. Across …
Teaching Children to Care
… The genesis of Education for Sharing, a nonprofit organization that has served hundreds of thousands of … to level the playing field between the children. What surprised them was what they then received in return. The …
New Fellows
… The magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows … among other responsibilities. Gathright, of Bethesda, Maryland, and Lowell House, is concentrating in … 1776, a venture seed fund and incubator of start-up enterprises. Trela, of New Harmony, Indiana, and Currier House, is …
Issue: September-October 2015
Naomi Oreskes on How to Write about Science
… History of science professor Naomi Oreskes talks about climate change the way one might expect of both an earth scientist and a …
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 …