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Harvardian Wins National Wrestling Title
… Harvard wrestler J. P. O'Connor ’10 won the NCAA championship in the 157-pound class last weekend at … come from behind to capture a 6-4 victory over Chase Pami of California Polytechnic, a rival who had eliminated … that he won his first four matches by a cumulative score of 42-6. He is the third national champion in Crimson …
I Saw You…Standing There
… iSawYou is a “missed connections” site, a sort of hybrid between a personals section and “America’s Most Wanted.” The idea is that if you see someone in the Square who … You Harvard and have at least some chance, however remote, of getting in touch. Lamont bottom floor Posted at …
Issue: May-June 2010
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 …
Yesterday's News
… 1914 Parading with a Harvard banner may be a criminal offense. The Massachusetts legislature, responding to the Lawrence … a crimson H.” 1919 “As horses still form important means of traction for artillery in the field,” students enrolled …
Issue: November-December 2024
Subtraction and Decision
… selection will be upon us . After making it through four of these cycles, you get to be a kind of pro. You don’t have to check where buildings are, like a …
Issue: September-October 2010
Harvard Disburses $1 Million for Climate Change Research
… The Climate Change Solutions Fund has awarded $1 million in … with alumni support, the fund aims to foster development of innovative solutions to the challenge of climate change. Including two earlier rounds of funding, …
From Cybercafes to Classrooms
… high-school students learn about electrostatic fields like the one on this page -- a dipole shown with test charge … and field lines. Faculty members at the Graduate School of Education are finding exciting new ways of harnessing technology for pedagogic purposes. Years ago …
Google Named Development Partner to edX
… edX , the nonprofit Harvard-MIT online learning partnership , … of edX's platform, even as for-profit online enterprises seek to enlarge their markets. It may also affect … to the announced practices of for-profit MOOC enterprises, including Coursera and Udacity. edX member …
Surpluses and Scholarship
… A decade after the financial crisis overturned Harvard’s academic … billion distributed from the endowment—fully 35 percent of revenues (see “The Black…and the Red,” page 22). That … battery technology; innovations in law, incentives, enterprises, and civic institutions to accelerate the adoption of …
Issue: January-February 2020
Extracurriculars
… • October 6 at 3 p.m. www.aneveningwithchampions.org www.boxoffice.harvard.edu ; 617-496-2222 The forty-third annual ice-skating exhibition raises money for the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Bright Hockey Center. …
Issue: September-October 2013
Image Blogger
… people to e-mail pictures to friends and family, but few of these photographers are as well-traveled as Steve Potter … communications director for iRacing.com, a developer of digital simulations for the motor-sport industry, has had …
Issue: July-August 2007
Football: Harvard 23, Dartmouth 12
… Percy Wendell, A.B. 1913, was one of Harvard’s first great running backs. A 5-foot-5, 172-pound fireplug of a fellow, Wendell was nicknamed “The Human Bullet” for a literally straight-ahead running …
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 …
Following Frederick Douglass
… Ryan Doan-Nguyen ’25 always felt a particular affinity for the work and activism of Frederick Douglass, the prominent nineteenth-century … abolitionist. So when Doan-Nguyen, a resident of Mather House, along with Nicholas Carrero ’23 [’25], of …
Allston Agenda
… The Corporation has approved the recommendations of the … initiatives, Harvard will identify partners for the “enterprise business campus” and hotel-conference center envisioned …
Issue: November-December 2011