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Adrian Piper to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
… Adrian Margaret Smith Piper, Ph.D. ’81, will receive the 2023 Harvard Arts Medal. President Lawrence S. Bacow … at the Harvard Film Archive on April 26, at the start of ARTS FIRST, the University’s annual arts festival. … announcement. “Piper’s work leads us into states where surprise mingles with awe, unrest, and necessary humility.” …
High Fashion, Sub-Saharan
… The ironies abound: women who can scarcely put food on the … concrete houses throw lavish feasts, or exchange gifts of expensive cloth and gold at weddings. This is Dakar, … creativity. This outcome has roots not only in the recent crises, but also in Dakar's long cosmopolitan history, which …
A Moral Victory
… The Civil War battle of Antietam remains the most lethal day of combat for Americans in U.S. history. …
Issue: November-December 2024
Football 2017: Harvard 10, Rhode Island 17
… at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island, concerning the 144th edition of Harvard football: 1.) The Crimson would not go … Rhode Island beat Harvard 17-10, avenging the thrashings of 2015 (41-19) and ’16 (51-21). The much-improved Rams, who …
Kennedy School Advances Campus Building Plans
… Acting expeditiously to realize one of the largest, and most ambitious, elements of its … that is now 13 parking spaces, alongside a blank wall that rises up to the level of the pedestrian walkway between the …
Brevia
… The Marshal Moves On Jackie O’Neill , who as University … Exercises for the past 14 years, retired at the end of December. The rest of the time, the marshal welcomes international visitors to …
Issue: January-February 2018
Shirin Ebadi Shares Her Experience, and a Hug
… “There is a price for everything,” Iranian human-rights … ago, Ebadi was the country’s first female judge—on Bench 24 of Tehran’s city court—but after the 1979 revolution, she … political prisoners, women, children, and the families of murdered students and dissidents. She stayed in Iran, …
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 …
Recruiting Redux
… The Supreme Court is set to consider how military recruiting … insistence on nondiscrimination, including on the basis of sexual orientation. The conflicting policies became … that did not comply. Harvard receives about $500 million of such revenue annually. In 2003, a majority of HLS …
Issue: July-August 2005
Brevia
… Law Leader’s Leavetaking Martha Minow , dean of Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2009, announced in January that she would step down at the end of the academic year; she plans to return to teaching and …
Issue: March-April 2017
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
Laugh Lines
… 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
Major League Dreams
… Among the children chasing foul balls, the firetrucks serving as a … But Driver’s coaches, teammates, and friends are less surprised; with his work ethic, humility, and love for the game, … attention. Harvard was the final school to give him an offer. His sister, Eve Driver ’20, was about to graduate …
Historic Hoops Season
… On the regular season’s final weekend, the Harvard men’s … 79-64, and taming the Tigers, 79-67, the Crimson men capped off the first 100 years of hoops at the College in the most satisfying manner: …
Issue: May-June 2011
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