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Harvard Corporation to Drop Law School Shield Linked to Slavery
… The Harvard Corporation has agreed to abandon the … Harvard Law School (HLS) shield, per the recommendation of a committee of HLS faculty, students, and alumni released early this …
Megan Sniffin-Marinoff
… cool stuff?” asks University archivist Megan Sniffin-Marinoff with an expectant grin, reaching for a library cart loaded with treasures from the vault. In one folder, a plaintive letter from … White ’38. Harvard archivist since 2004, Sniffin-Marinoff grew up on Long Island and studied journalism at Boston …
Issue: January-February 2018
Football 2023: Harvard 17-Dartmouth 9
… against Dartmouth on Saturday evening was in keeping with the throwback nature of this season’s celebration of 150 years of Crimson football. There was the big Harvard …
A Hardwood Foundation
… During the 2016-2017 season, a construction crew labored outside Lavietes Pavilion, the home of the Harvard basketball teams. Making incremental progress … but they were also laying the foundation for several years of team growth. Among the goals for that growth: a twelfth …
Issue: May-June 2017
Cultures in Conflict
… In 1996, Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington published … a provocative and influential book called The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order . …
Issue: July-August 2009
Harvard Art Museums Names a New Curator
… The Harvard Art Museums has a new curator of American art: … institution on September 1 as Stebbins associate curator of American Art. He arrives from Williams College Museum of …
Connections Across Continents
… The existence of a Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) project in Santiago represents a … to become general manager of Luksic’s educational enterprise, Fundación Educacional Oportunidad . And another HGSE …
Issue: March-April 2009
Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings
… The Chinese American artist Shen Wei is perhaps best known as principal choreographer of the spectacular opening ceremonies at the 2008 Olympics … spirit. Wei “focuses on discovery—the unfolding of a surprise, a new way of thinking about the forms of energy in the …
Issue: March-April 2021
Unifying Harvard’s Libraries
… After “exhaustive analysis,” an implementation work group of the Task Force on University Libraries has recommended … 2010, page 41). A new position, executive director of the University library, will report to a board of …
Issue: January-February 2011
Football: Harvard 45, Columbia 0
… Midway through the Harvard football team’s game against Columbia at the … With its top-ranked defense snacking on a six-pack of turnovers, the Crimson polished off the undermanned Lions 45-0 and remained unblemished in …
Campaign Chatter
… As Harvard conducts the quiet phase of a major capital campaign, preceding a … Coming Campaign,” January-February, page 50), further hints of its scale continue to bubble up. In naming Harvard …
Issue: May-June 2013
When Wildfires Make Your Air Unhealthy
… REVISITING WILDFIRES AND PUBLIC HEALTH In light of recent events in Los Angeles, we are resharing this relevant article on wildfires and their effect on air quality. In the below Q&A from 2023, … That said, everyone in our field was talking about how surprised we all were, and when you look at the numbers, this is …
Behind the Scenes: Safe Streets
… and a place. But our staff’s journey to 7 Ware Street, at the edge of campus, can be perilous. When I bike, my head is on a … doctors, architects, and civil servants discussed the scope of the issue and the long road to improvement. Street …
Nabokov's Butterflies
… frequently appear in Vladimir Nabokov's novels, but the winged creatures were more than a trope for the multifaceted Russian writer. As curator of lepidoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology , he collected butterflies and …
A Special Notice Regarding Commencement Day
… Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of people wishing to attend Harvard’s … Morning: • Degree candidates will receive a limited number of tickets to Commencement. Their parents and guests must …
Issue: March-April 2015