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Postmodern Medicine
… potential or actual patients, with physicians, in a system of social, moral, and organizational understandings. So writes Monrad professor of the social sciences Charles E. Rosenberg in O ur Present …
Issue: March-April 2008
Oldest and First
… Donning his Class of ’44 cap that he got at his 25th reunion fifty years ago—a … Huberman ’44, M.B.A. ’48, led an all-alumni parade past the John Harvard Statue and into Tercentenary Theatre for … stand-alone Alumni Day . Huberman held the distinction of being the most senior attendee at this weekend’s …
Graduate School Doubles Paid Time Off for Student Parents
… to 12 paid weeks away from teaching or research, double the current six-week benefit, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) announced last week. “I’m very … as much as we can.” He said GSAS made the change in light of conversations with students about their needs. To …
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
Thoughts on an Obama Win, or Loss
… Writing in Sunday's Washington Post , Klein professor of law Randall Kennedy argues that Barack Obama's nomination … candidate is a milestone in itself—it "has opened the public mind to the idea of a black president and made …
Apollo 17 Turns 50
… The photograph is 50 years old now, a black-and-white image of two Harvard alumni meeting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. One of them, Jonathan Smart ’69, wears …
Issue: November-December 2022
Frank Gehry to Receive Arts Medal
… Architect Frank Gehry , Ds ’57, Ar.D. ’00, creator of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and MIT’s Stata Center, will receive the Harvard Arts Medal at the opening event of the annual Arts First festival on April 28. The event’s …
Honoris Causa
… 354th 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: David Baltimore. One of the world’s most influential molecular biologists, …
Issue: July-August 2005
A Hard Road
… 2017, coach Tim Murphy put forth a multi-pronged plan for the 2018 Harvard football season, the Crimson’s 145th. Its major elements: First, bolster his offensive and defensive lines. “We have a saying here: It’s … season on the Crimson sideline. Second, get the ball as often as possible into the hands of senior All-Ivy wideout …
Issue: November-December 2018
Internet-era Students, Meet Rare Books
… and Lamont.” She had never seen anyone enter or leave the building, and had no knowledge of what went on inside. Now, after a summer spent working … there as a Houghton Undergraduate Fellow, her impression of the library—Harvard’s primary repository for rare books …
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
Aloian Memorial Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Fariba Mahmud ’22, of Winthrop House, and Courtney Rabb ’22, of Eliot House, as the 2021 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial …
Issue: November-December 2021
Commencement Confetti
… Musical Messages Among the tributes to Representative John Lewis during the Morning Exercises was the choir’s performance of “We Are…,” by Ysaÿe Maria Barnwell, who was a member of the African-American ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock …
Issue: July-August 2018
Remembering Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
… Editor’s note : Meg Campbell ’74, an educator—she is the retired cofounder of the Codman Academy Charter Public School—lives in …
Also Heard
… last thing that I learned at Harvard Business School, and the thing that may be most important to the people here today, is to take personal risks.… Most of you are like me—you leave here broke, completely … to my first job at GE. But I was rich from the standpoint of having a great platform on which to take personal and …
Issue: July-August 2005