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… on selling a script for a $16-million movie, only to watch the deal fall through and then making the movie with her partner, for $840,000—“almost a year of Harvard tuition.” Sheryl Sandberg Photograph by Stu … Rosner Chief Marshal Sheryl Sandberg ’91, M.B.A. ’95, COO of Facebook, representing the twenty-fifth reunion class at …
Issue: July-August 2016
Hongkun Park
… brain doesn't run at three gigahertz, believe me," kids professor of chemistry and of physics Hongkun Park. But even though the brain is not as fast as a computer, it is much better at …
Issue: March-April 2005
FDR's Digs
… No sooner had the citizenry chosen Barack Hussein Obama, J.D. ’91, to be … ). Judith and Sean Palfrey, master and co-master of Adams House, imagined restoring the suite of rooms in what is now B-entry—two bedrooms, sitting room, …
Issue: January-February 2009
David Charbonneau
… On camping trips in northern Ontario as a Boy Scout, David Charbonneau, Ph.D. ’01, Cabot associate professor of astronomy, remembers looking up and watching the stars. …
Issue: March-April 2008
Meet Harvard Squared
… and—most important—reconceived special section in their copies of Harvard Magazine. Harvard 2 (“Harvard Squared”) replaces … has included a campus-events calendar, features on aspects of New England life, and a review of a local restaurant. (In …
Issue: July-August 2014
Universities in a Polarized Era
… Speaking at the first Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting of the new … that they will explain and defend their choices as need arises. Our goal—our expectation—should always be …
Cambridge 02138
… Suicide Elizabeth Gudrais's otherwise excellent article on Matthew Nock's research on … page 32) contains a significant omission: the centrality of the therapist-patient relationship in treating the … coach ( Harvard Portrait , January-February, page 45), surprises me for its harshness. I would not have thought that …
Issue: March-April 2011
175 Candles
… On Commencement Day , August 26, 1840, a small group of Harvard College graduates established what is now known as the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA)—but only after drafting … “though he had worries about his ‘inefficiency’ for the office.” From the start, Adams said that the organization …
Issue: September-October 2015
“Edifying and Beautiful”
… Curators at Houghton Library are bringing a splash of green and other vibrant color to the building’s main lobby this summer with a new exhibition of rare and old botanical illustrations. Though visitors …
Fewer Grad Students, No Spring Recess
… Harvard will admit fewer graduate students for the 2021-2022 academic year (and will begin a comprehensive review of Ph.D. education), and undergraduates who are permitted to … spring recess. Both decisions, made under pressure of the continuing coronavirus pandemic, were announced to …
Spotting Pollutants from Space
… to a geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles above the equator. The satellite carried an important payload: a … Astrophysics (CfA). The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) device uses spectroscopic analysis of trace atmospheric gases to pinpoint sources and track …
Issue: July-August 2023
Jades, Reread
… Why do early Chinese jades hold such allure? Their antiquity, for one thing: Neolithic examples date back … 7,000 years, commanding attention for the sheer survival of human artifacts. The color of the stone, its worked finish and crisp details, can be …
Issue: July-August 2019
Curriculum, Classroom, Competence
… While acknowledging that the curriculum is the faculty’s “sacred domain,” President … Derek Bok nonetheless said at the October 17 meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that Harvard could make a special …
Issue: January-February 2007
Overseer and HAA Director Candidates
… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by … B. Weinberg ’74, Chicago. Chairman and CEO, Judd Enterprises, Inc. John Silvanus Wilson Jr., M.T.S. ’81, Ed.D. ’82, …
Issue: May-June 2015
Election Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new …
Issue: July-August 2016