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Marc Hauser’s Return
… Professor of psychology Marc Hauser will be returning to Harvard this … department meeting this spring, “a large majority” of the faculty voted against allowing him to teach courses in the coming academic year, according to Faculty of Arts and …
Issue: July-August 2011
A Walk through History with Justice Ginsburg
… laws that have disadvantaged women and reinforced notions of men as breadwinners and women as dependents: both as an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who argued cases … a journey through the historic cases that overturned many of those laws; the path corresponded largely with her own …
Issue: May-June 2009
Theatrical Debut
… Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) returns to its historic home this year for … has missed only four years, taking a hiatus during each of the two world wars.) But the theater at 10-12 Holyoke … by Leers Weinzapfel Associates of Boston—comprise 25,119 square feet of space on six stories, three above …
Issue: January-February 2008
Helping Out, Abroad and at Home
… En route to the math placement exam, Annette Ghee ’83 met classmate Burt … she completed a Ph.D. in epidemiology at the University of Washington (UW) a year ago and most recently spent six … in their field, though at Harvard he studied history of science after deciding that “people are more interesting …
Issue: January-February 2008
Family Ties
… They're the people who knew you first. For years, they were … that the first decade after graduation is a time of transition for everything, including family relationships. Of course, some people have always gotten along with their …
Issue: March-April 2004
Election Slates and Divestment Developments
… The Harvard Alumni Association-nominated 2020 slate of … ceasing any new investments” in fossil-fuel enterprises, defined as the “top 100” coal and oil and gas …
Steven Spielberg Named Harvard’s 2016 Commencement Speaker
… , screenwriter, and producer Steven Spielberg will be the guest speaker at Harvard’s 365th Commencement on … Ryan, a World War II drama told from the perspective of American soldiers in Europe, earned his second in that category. His 2015 film, the Cold War drama Bridge of Spies , earned his sixteenth Oscar nomination, for best …
Harvard’s Admissions Process Upheld
… Federal Judge Allison Burroughs, who presided over the lawsuit arguing that Harvard College’s use of race in admissions discriminates against Asian-Americans, … reflected any discriminatory animus, or even an application of an Asian American who it contended should have or would …
Issue: November-December 2019
Harvard College Reinstates Early Action
… Starting in the fall , students will once again have the option of applying to Harvard College under a nonbinding … at the time, interim president Derek Bok said students of lesser means tended to wait for the later deadline to …
Green Buildings
… 1991, Rocky Mountain Institute has worked with clients like the Pentagon, Oberlin College, the White House, and the 2000 … says William Browning, a founder and principal of RMI's Green Development Services group. Take, for … Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a program of the U.S. Green Building Council— www.usgbc.org …
Issue: January-February 2004
Harvard Law Weighs In
… As legal education and the profession face substantial change—with law graduates’ careers developing in increasingly varied, often global, contexts—Harvard Law School (HLS) kicked off …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2016
"Medicine changes you."
… Rather than lay out his every future career move, Vivek Murthy … for those things in his life that have generated "feelings of exhilaration." One pinnacle involved his work for VISIONS Worldwide Inc., a nonprofit organization that he and his sister, Rashmi Murthy, …
Issue: September-October 2003
Re-remembering Juneteenth
… compose what would become her recent book On Juneteenth , the Loeb University Professor and Pulitzer-winning historian felt her customary … Writing about a holiday first celebrated in her home state of Texas, and created to commemorate African Americans’ …
DACA Deferred
… The congressional budget deal that re-opened the federal government last night has left undecided the fate of hundreds of thousands of “dreamers” (undocumented immigrants who were …
Bitter Ending
… If any doubt remained that the favored Harvard football team would be in for a real bulldogfight against Yale in the 133rd edition of The Game on November 19 at Harvard Stadium, it vanished … and, within four plays, rammed home a touchdown. The surprise move set the tone for the afternoon. Harvard would tie …
Issue: January-February 2017