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Bench Strength
… concluded this academic year: Kathleen McCartney departs the Graduate School of Education to become president of Smith College; Michael Shinagel retires as dean of …
Issue: July-August 2013
Finding Harvard’s Next President
… Lawrence S. Bacow has announced his plan to step down at the end of the next academic year, by June 30, 2023, how will the … president—the newcomer will be the thirtieth to hold the office—with the consent of the Board of Overseers. Much work …
Behind the Scenes: “A Right Way to Read?”
… Staff writer Nina Pasquini examines the state of literacy education and the gaps between … research—like the scholarship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE)—to policy and the classrooms where …
Here's to Ralph, Mrs. DeVoto, and Warren
… outstretched to shake with passers-by." As many readers of this magazine are well aware, every five years the members of each College class are invited to write something about …
Issue: March-April 2005
Harvard's Hillary Look-alike
… Professional actress Heidi Dallin ’85 has been getting lots of work lately, thanks to her marked resemblance to Hillary Clinton. When the Clintons entered the White House, Dallin couldn't escape …
Science and Song
… The following tracks are posted here courtesy of Pardis … while working on her doctoral dissertation (an analysis of natural selection as seen in resistance to malaria in African populations). She would work in the lab every day for 14 to 16 hours, then come home and …
Issue: May-June 2009
Football: Harvard 42, Lafayette 0
… It’s a football axiom: To win, you must establish the running game. Last Saturday at Fisher Stadium in Easton, … in a row—a streak second in NCAA Division I only to that of Ohio State (20)—was also the Crimson’s thirteenth … of junior Chad Kanoff. Their loss at Brown was a surprise; all credit must go to Bears coach Phil Estes for …
Sweet Science
… In a Science Center lecture hall, Joseph professor of engineering and applied mathematics Howard Stone spoke about physics to a crowd …
Honoris Causa
… 355th 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: Leo Steinberg. One of the great art historians of the age, who, one observer …
Issue: July-August 2006
Over 91-Acre Allston Purchase, a Fresh Political Maelstrom
… When Harvard purchased land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) in 2000, it was … for 48 acres. Now Harvard has acquired an adjacent parcel of 91 acres for $75 million, bringing the University's total … real-estate market but also the heavily encumbered nature of the property, which is split by the turnpike itself and …
Issue: July-August 2003
Foreign Service
… Bell, Miguel Palos, Robert Yarrish, and (below) Graham Hoffman Courtesy of Miguel Palos Courtesy of Graham Hoffman A navy reservist … Arifjan, Kuwait, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom with the Expeditionary Medical Force, Fleet Hospital Dallas. As I …
Issue: July-August 2005
Up, Up, and Over!
… irrational act 20 or 30 times a day in practice and, at the 2012 NCAA Championships in Des Moines, to clear a bar … the pole and launch your leap, “you get every doubt out of your head, and just go for it,” he explains. “You … the bar and ignore any other feelings.” Assistant coach of track and field Brenner Abbott says, “Nico is very gifted …
Issue: May-June 2013
Court-Ordered Inequity
… Legal journalist Adam Cohen ’84, J.D. ’87—last seen in these pages with an excerpt from his book on eugenics, … focusing on University leaders’ support for that species of social engineering ( “Harvard’s Eugenics Era,” … page 48)—has now cast his eye at the past half-century of Supreme Court jurisprudence. What he has found is summed …
Issue: March-April 2020
Sonatas from Syndromes
… In a biography of composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Richard Kogan ’77, … found startling episodes like this: “In a two-week burst of inspiration, barely pausing for sleep, he [Schumann] … frenzy might follow six months of torpor. “It sounded like the mood swings I see in my manic-depressive patients,” says …
Issue: September-October 2005
Veritas Values
… Prompted by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting … in response to the "living wage" protests in the spring of 2001—the University has adopted a "Statement of Values." The statement, endorsed by the Academic Advisory …
Issue: November-December 2002