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President Bacow’s First-Day Message
… The formal transition from President Drew Faust to President … and her husband, Charles Rosenberg, from the beginning of her presidency in 2007 and through the unexpected … ice-cream social in Harvard Yard—a gathering that was reprised, in a farewell gesture, last Friday afternoon. Given …
A New Life for Heaney’s Home at Harvard
… “Seamus was not a show-off, but he was a performer,” said Loker professor of English emeritus and former Adams House master Robert Kiely; and there was “never a more loving and appreciative audience …
Sequestering Carbon Dioxide in Diamonds
… M.B.A. ’11, would go out into his garage and break the Styrofoam in the trash into little pieces. “My mom would … And I looked at her and I said, ‘I’m starting the process of trying to break these down,’” he recalled. “I always have …
Harvard Yard, Less Occupied
… The Occupy Harvard movement, which placed its tent … ID holders and authorized guests, to balance the interests of both resident students and the protestors —has moved on. … in a subsequent e-mail, the University laid out its view of how to proceed, including reopening general access to the …
Penny S. Pritzker ’81 Nominated as Commerce Secretary
… to nominate Penny S. Pritzker ’81 as U.S. Secretary of Commerce —long rumored, as The New York Times reported last winter —may have the local effect of depriving Harvard of one of its leading supporters—and …
Exploring Exoplanets
… Is there life beyond Earth? Likely no question excites greater … In fact, during the past 10 years—following discovery of the first exoplanet, orbiting 51 Pegasi, in 1995—“We’ve … discovered indirectly. Although a star like the Sun comprises almost all the mass of any planetary group, the …
Issue: May-June 2013
A Harmonious Revolution
… Sunlight streams through the glass ceiling, glinting off the grand piano at one end of the atrium in the Tosteson Medical Education Center …
Work at Its Best
… For many years the Los Angeles Times, published by the Chandler family, had a reputation as one of the nation's leading newspapers. But the ownership … down the wall" between the editorial and business sides of the paper, even "to use a bazooka if necessary." His …
Track Coach Haggerty Retires
… Frank Haggerty ’68 , head coach of men’s and women’s cross-country and track and field since … on June 30. Harvard’s ninth head track coach, Haggerty is the first to direct both the men’s and women’s programs. “For 31 years, I have had the privilege of teaching Harvard students,” he said in a statement. “I am …
Issue: May-June 2006
Oyster Environmentalists
… Once so degraded that residents avoided touching the brackish water, the 106-acre Wilson Bay in Jacksonville … the North Carolina coast now hosts a healthy cross-section of aquatic life. From the microscopic creatures at the foundation of the bay's food chain to golden eagles and …
Issue: January-February 2005
Harvard Requires Students to Be Vaccinated for Fall
… The University announced today that Harvard, like at least a couple of hundred other institutions of higher education (see The Chronicle of Higher Education’s …
Increasing Access
… Harvard Magazine has long published commentaries from the president on matters that are timely and relevant to the life of the University. In an era of rapid news cycles, it can be challenging to craft copy …
Managing with Markov
… perhaps, than searches for Big Foot or a cure for the common cold, but the quest for the optimal baseball … minds. The Nielsen ratings that determine the exchange of billions of advertising dollars may be based on a small fraction of …
Issue: May-June 2002
James J. Husson Appointed Head of Development
… vice president for alumni affairs and development, the University’s senior fundraising official, effective April 1. He succeeds Brian K. Lee, who … position in 2018 and will remain on duty through the end of March, consistent with his plan, announced last July, to …
A Case For Women
… and internationalization to inclusion. In setting out the latter goal, he said in a recent conversation, he aimed … deanship for culture and community—and appointed Wilson professor of business administration Robin J. Ely to the post: a …
Issue: September-October 2015