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Wage Wrangling
… The sit-in capped a two-year-old campaign organized by the … at securing a standard minimum wage for University workers of $10 per hour (later $10.25), corresponding to a figure … the sit-in, the living-wage campaign had run the gamut of protest tactics. In 1999, students organized a silent …
Scientists Grow Eggs from Ovarian Stem Cells
… a new study has found early proof that stem cells taken from a women’s ovaries can be used … could upend a 60-year belief that women are born with all the eggs they’ll ever have. “What this means is that little bank account of eggs that a little girl gets at birth is in fact open to …
Harry Parker, Legendary Crew Coach, Dies
… Harry Parker , head coach of the Harvard men’s heavyweight crew for the past half-century, died on June 25 at age 77. The cause of death was myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of blood …
Song for Hard Times
… bread with one meat ball." In 1944 Hy Zaret and Lou Singer, of Tin Pan Alley, dusted off a largely forgotten old song, modernized its diction, changed the melody from bouncy to bluesy, and brought forth "One …
Issue: May-June 2009
Powering Through
… The buzz at the first postgame press conference wasn’t about … locked up the football team’s 28-13 win over the University of San Diego, or about the 99-yard kick return that was nullified by a penalty, or about Harvard’s chances of repeating as Ivy League champions. With writers from The …
Issue: November-December 2012
Harvard Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2020-21 academic year. Fernanda Baron, of Lowell House, a sociology concentrator with a secondary field in the studies of women, gender, and sexuality, will be the Governor …
Issue: July-August 2020
Honors for Harvardians
… Both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National … about their annual awards. Among the 12 recipients of the National Humanities Medal were: Wynton Marsalis, D.Mus. ’09 , “for celebrating the traditions of jazz music from New Orleans to Lincoln Center and …
Harvard Puzzle "Bookmark"
… Download the Puzzle | Download the Hints | Download the Solution … – Greensboro, NC Mark Manasse – San Francisco, CA Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico Thomas Miller – … and can subscribe to his mailing list. … Clever creations of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas '52 … Harvard Puzzle …
Vote Now
… directors must be returned by noon on May 30. Results of the election will be announced on Commencement Day, June 5. … Harwich, Mass. Executive director, Center for Women & Enterprise. … Vote NowTo be counted, all votes for …
Issue: May-June 2003
Dancer Damian Woetzel Named Arts Medalist
… career spanned nearly two decades as a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, is the 2015 Harvard Arts Medalist , the Office for the Arts announced Monday. Woetzel will receive … include a conversation with Woetzel and Harvard’s “Master of the Arts,” John Lithgow ’67, Ar.D. ’05, kicks off the …
Christina Gao: No Regrets
… lessons at age seven, her life has been as much of a balancing act as the sport itself. Growing up, the slender girl from Cincinnati often missed school to make time for her training sessions …
Brevia
… Niemans of Note The seventy-fifth class of Nieman Fellows —24 journalists chosen to study at Harvard during the 2012-2013 academic year—will include two Nieman-Berkman …
Issue: July-August 2012
Holyoke Center to Become New Social Hub
… Holyoke Center —today renamed the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center—will undergo … beginning in 2016. Now home primarily to administrative offices and health services, the building will be renovated … a new campus center that will open in 2018, University officials announced. The Smiths, who gave a gift of …
Football 2018: Harvard 29, Penn 7
… Harvard football coach Tim Murphy is fond of saying, “It’s what up front that counts.” On Saturday at Franklin Field against longtime Ivy rival Penn, there was much for Murphy to be fond of as his Crimson offensive and defensive lines—the latter …
Harvard Releases Barron Report on Access to Electronic Communications
… communications released its recommendations today. The work began in March 2013, following a controversy about … Board disciplinary proceeding; some particulars of that proceeding—which concerned a massive case of student academic dishonesty —had leaked, prompting …