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Harvard Files Amicus Brief in Case Against Immigration Ban
… Harvard and seven other Massachusetts universities have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Louhghalam v. Trump , one of the lawsuits challenging President Donald J. Trump’s …
Extracurriculars
… Enjoy a range of offerings in and around Harvard Square this fall, from jazz … Seasonal Exhibitions Nature and Science Film Music Theater Libraries Seasonal An Evening with Champions … October 6 at 7 p.m. — Organized by Harvard undergraduates, the annual ice-skating show, An Evening with Champions, …
Issue: September-October 2006
Ela R. Bhatt to Receive Radcliffe Medal
… Activist and entrepreneur Ela R. Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association in India and the Indian School of Micro-finance for Women, will speak to guests and receive …
Memorial Church Interim Minister
… With the fall semester about to begin—and with it Memorial Church’s venerable tradition of Morning Prayers—President Lawrence S. Bacow announced today that Stephanie Paulsell, Swartz professor of the practice of Christian studies, will serve as …
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Will Speak at Class Day
… address graduating Harvard College seniors in Tercentenary Theatre on Class Day, May 23. The decorated writer is best … the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) , and Americanah (2013), as well as … Suggestions (2017). Her books and stories sketch the lives of Nigerians before and after colonization and the Nigerian …
Life and Cupcakes
… As a child, Jessi Walter ’03 enjoyed spending time in the kitchen surrounded by baking pans, bowls, and mixers. “I … do with friends or by myself, and I loved the precision of the measuring—and of course tasting—along the way.” In … as an economics concentrator) to shift to her new enterprise. “Being on Wall Street gave me a great background in …
Issue: May-June 2009
A Borrower Be
… In late 2008 , at the depths of the financial crisis, the University borrowed … expensively (at tax-exempt and taxable interest rates of 5.4 percent and 5.8 percent) to shore up its liquidity …
Issue: November-December 2015
Brevia
… Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, LL.D. ’11, Oprah Winfrey, LL.D. ’13), the University has gone local. Deval L. Patrick ’78, J.D. … will be the guest speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of the 364th Commencement, on May 28. Since leaving office, … at cornell. Cutting professor of computer science Greg Morrisett, a Harvard College Professor whose research focuses …
Issue: May-June 2015
Swashbuckling National Champions
… The Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams combined to win … 53) dethroned defending champion Penn State—winner of nine of the 17 NCAA fencing titles award-ed to date—by …
Issue: May-June 2006
Divestment Dialogue
… and early May, Harvard Faculty for Divestment (proponents of shedding endowment investments in companies that produce … fuels) posted letters to President Drew Faust and members of the Harvard Corporation reiterating their support for …
Harvard Arts and Sciences Deanship Named
… First, a $350-million gift of unrestricted endowment funds resulted in the renaming of a school: what Harvard now calls the T. H. Chan School of …
Not-So-Free Parking
… nightmare. After a smooth drive on a freeway, you pull into the city to run an errand, grab lunch, or drop your child off at school. But all the curb spots are taken, and the … argues 2023-24 Loeb Fellow Henry Grabar, reducing the stock of free parking on American streets can improve cities. The …
Some Changes
… On hearing of the death of Anthony Lewis ’48, NF ’57, on March 25, we turned, … at http://harvardmag.com/lewis ) and his early letters to the magazine. They exhibit the strong writing and clear …
Issue: May-June 2013
News in Brief
… Commencement—and Other Headliners— Actor-filmmaker Tom Hanks will be the … speaker at Harvard’s Commencement exercises on the morning of May 25, succeeding a series of government and other leaders in recent years; for details …
Issue: May-June 2023
Advanced Standing Reduced
… Following its December discussion of a proposal to eliminate Harvard College course credit for … Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses—thereby limiting students’ ability to fast-track their A.B. … Advanced Standing,” March-April, page 22)—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) accepted an amended course of …
Issue: May-June 2018