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… those days and in my culture, only ‘bad girls’ left the family prior to matrimony.” Given her domestic … years later could Esposito come to understand the intensity of her mother’s anger, emanating …from the fear of losing me to a world she and the family did not …
Issue: January-February 2020
Finding Harlem
… Vera Ingrid Grant , director of Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African-American Art , notes that the name …
Power to Deliver Kennedy School Commencement Address
… United States ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, J.D. ’99, will deliver … on May 28. Power, who was founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at HKS from 1998 to 2002 and subsequently served there as Lind professor of the practice of global leadership and public …
A Facelift for Mass Hall
… The construction scaffolding that has grown like aggressive … as the site undergoes renovations this summer. Home to the office of the president (and, upstairs, 14 College freshmen), …
Ivy League Football Ramping Up
… For the third time in four years, Harvard emerged as the team … In the poll, the Crimson amassed 129 points, capturing 10 of 17 first-place votes and narrowly leading Penn, which had … prospects for the 2009 season. It began with an explanation of a new Ivy rule by Jim Maconaghy, coordinator of football …
Guidelines for Commencement Day
… Exercises Degree candidates will receive a set number of tickets. Parents and guests must have tickets to enter Tercentenary Theatre. Seating is limited, not guaranteed, and cannot be … room on the Widener steps and at the rear and sides of the Theatre. The sale of Commencement tickets is …
Issue: March-April 2014
Connecting with Prisoners and Their World
… Sociology professor Bruce Western often asks his students, “How would you like to be defined by the worst thing you’ve ever done?” By and large, that is …
A Wintry Jaunt to Newport, Rhode Island
… As winds whip off the Atlantic Ocean and waves crash along Newport’s famous … The Breakers” tour meander through the labyrinthine bowels of the Vanderbilt family’s Gilded Age mansion. The tour …
Issue: January-February 2018
HAA Award Winners
… Established in 1990, the Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize outstanding … are to be presented on September 27 during the HAA board of directors’ fall meeting. Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, M.B.A. ’79, of Oslo, has held numerous positions in the HAA, including …
Issue: September-October 2012
Reality and Optimism at Harvard Business School
… Though the volatile , difficult economic landscape formed a … celebrations, Jamie Chang, M.B.A. ’10, the informal master of ceremonies for the Harvard Business School Class Day … percent of you [M.B.A. recipients] following social enterprise courses.” Cohen recommended that trained managers try …
Ortiz Dominates as Harvard Clinches Ivy Title
… Ortiz, a first-team all-Ivy player last year who was profiled this fall in Harvard Magazine, had a huge game against the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, November 12, as Harvard …
Theater, Dance, and Media's "Next Act"
… Through the door of Martin Puchner’s office in Farkas Hall, bursts of clapping, shouts, and laughter erupt from the class in session next door: “What’s So Funny? …
Issue: May-June 2016
Cultivating Friendships with Trees
… exempt from public haunt,/Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,/Sermons in stones, and good in everything,” wrote Shakespeare. Trees of knowledge and trees of life have deep taproots in human culture. And if trees …
Issue: September-October 2024
Beyond Ramen Noodles
… On a Monday night in late March, dozens of graduate students stand around a brightly lit lounge where tables are covered with many different kinds of pies. The conversation is warm and animated; professor of public …
Issue: May-June 2011
Harvard Football Great Performances: Colton Chapple ’13
… Had the coronavirus not scrambled the Harvard gridiron season … Ivy League football in earnest, with the final five games of the 2020 campaign against rivals from the Ancient Eight. … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …