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Election Results
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new …
Issue: July-August 2016
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
Oprah Winfrey Named Commencement Speaker
… Oprah Winfrey , the first African-American woman to become a billionaire, … with her oratorical gifts and ability to engage with people of all ranks and backgrounds. Now she will share words of wisdom with the Class of 2013 and other Harvard …
A Foray into Digital Preservation
… journals today are born digital, and in increasing numbers of cases, no paper edition is ever published. Typically, … only one institution holds an e-journal--its publisher. The costly replication and redundancy characteristic of paper publishing are absent. But what if the publisher …
Issue: March-April 2002
Fairfield Porter
… Fairfield Porter, A.B. 1928, accepted a commission for the Harvard Club of New York to paint former club president Alfred (Al) … A.B. 1923, M.B.A. ’25, whose portrait would join those of previous presidents lining the walls. Eschewing the …
Issue: September-October 2024
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
Portraying Larry Summers
… Sixteen years after the portrait of President Neil L. Rudenstine (1991-2001) was unveiled in the Faculty Room in University Hall, that of his successor, Lawrence H. Summers (2001-2006), was …
Issue: November-December 2022
How Do Movies Use Music?
… Midway through the 2001 jukebox musical film Moulin Rouge! , Ewan McGregor serenades Nicole Kidman on a rooftop. As McGregor woos Kidman, he cycles through a dozen … Robert Kraft ’76 guest lectured about the practical side of film music. From 1994 to 2012, Kraft served as the …
Immersed in Africa
… malaria infection. Vertical planters that enable residents of a Nairobi slum to grow their own food. These examples, a handful chosen from many, demonstrate the outcomes of Harvard undergraduates’ projects in developing countries …
Issue: November-December 2009
Voices Raised about Harvard
… note : President Alan M. Garber’s April 14 response to the Trump administration’s letter demanding sweeping changes … attention nationwide. It has also sparked an outpouring of correspondence from members of the Harvard community. All arrived after publication of …
Harvard Begins Search for Engineering Dean
… A cting in her continuing capacity as Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean, Claudine Gay, the University’s president-elect, has initiated the search for a successor to School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) dean Frank Doyle. …
Martha Whitehead Appointed Harvard Librarian
… Martha Whitehead , librarian of Queen’s University in Ontario since 2011 and vice provost there since 2014, has been appointed Harvard University … the Harvard Library , and Larsen librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective in June. She succeeds Sarah …
Is Harvard Cool?
… With devilish timing , The New York Times home page published “…Harvard Is the Stanford of the East” at 1:19 p.m. last May 29, between the … dominated”: undergraduate admissions yield, student picks of a “dream college,” fundraising prowess. Clarification …
Issue: September-October 2014
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
Phi Beta Kappa to Feature Joyce Carol Oates, Henri Cole
… Cole and prolific author Joyce Carol Oates will headline the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony at this year's Harvard … has published more than 50 novels as well as many books of short stories, nonfiction, and poetry, for a rough average of two books per year since her first volume appeared in …