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“No Longer Eligible to Work at Harvard”
… As of October 15, 97 percent of on-campus employees were vaccinated. By December 8, in compliance with the Biden administration’s executive order of September 9, … Services Executive Director Giang T. Nguyen. Writing to the community last Friday, the four leaders said, “As a …
Harvard Calendar
… THEATER. The American Repertory Theatre presents The Miser, … a special Democratic National Convention-themed edition of their show Life: A Guide for the Perplexed, at the Loeb … hosts free observatory nights on the third Thursday of each month at 8 p.m., with sky viewing if weather …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard Scientists #Strike4BlackLives
… On Wednesday, thousands of scientists around the globe—including at Harvard—paused research, meetings, … faculty members were minorities. By 2019, that figure had risen to 24 percent. But the number of tenured and …
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
Harvard Discloses Top Earners
… The University’s annual tax filings covering the fiscal year … disclosures released today, include the earnings of the most highly compensated Harvard administrators and … in nontaxable benefits (including the personal value of University-provided housing as well as health and other …
Harvard in Epigram
… arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by." Word of Fred R. Shapiro, J.D. ’77 (’80), in these pages first came in 1979 after he revived tiddlywinks … to end, Mrs. Parker said, she wouldn’t be at all surprised.” And finally, punks. “He had the good looks …
Issue: January-February 2007
New Fellows
… Joining the editorial staff this fall as the 2019-2020 Berta … the November-December issue, and reporting on other aspects of student and University life, among other … well. She spent the summer in Honolulu, at the University of Hawai‘i medical school’s Department of Native Hawaiian …
Issue: September-October 2019
University People
… Bridging a Graduate Gap A scientist follows an historian of science, as James M. Hogle and Doreen Hogle succeed … I. Mendelsohn and Mary B. Anderson as master and co-master of Dudley House, the Harvard Yard center for students enrolled in the …
Issue: September-October 2002
Harvard Chooses Allston Commercial Zone Developer
… The University’s Harvard Allston Land Company (HALC) … ’91, has been designated to develop the initial 14 acres of a 36-acre “enterprise research campus” along Western Avenue, opposite Harvard …
John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
Spectacular Swimming and Diving
… The men’s swimming and diving team (8-0) won the Ivy … fourth consecutive year; no Ivy swimmer had ever won any of these races four times. At the NCAAs, Cole took tenth in … At the NCAAs, Noelle Bassi ’07 set a new Harvard record of 1:59.29 in the 200 butterfly, while Jaclyn Pangilinan ’08 …
Issue: May-June 2005
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
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
Lisa McGirr
… says Lisa McGirr, who has just been promoted to associate professor of history, "is that I love to travel abroad. I envy my colleagues who get to use the Vatican archives or explore Inca ruins in Peru." …
Cashing Out For Happiness
… Anyone who’s indulged in retail therapy can affirm that money can’t buy happiness—but … people happier when they spend it to buy time . Assistant professor of business administration Ashley Whillans has found that, …
Issue: November-December 2017
Kindness Is “a Powerful and Subversive Thing”
… Reverent and self-deprecating —but always eclectic—the Harvard Divinity School’s Multireligious Commencement Service might well have been the loftiest, and yet the least pompous, celebration on the … come in” (and, in a later stanza, coaxed, “Don’t be afraid of some change”). Calling for two invocations, three …