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… Mohsen Mostafavi Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Graduate School of Design since January 2008, will conclude his service on …
Issue: January-February 2019
Harvard’s Allston Science and Engineering Complex Approved
… The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) has unanimously … Harvard’s plans for the $1-billion John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ (SEAS) science and … and the i-lab cluster, and adjacent to the emerging enterprise research campus , the complex will accommodate more …
New Fellows
… Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2011-2012 academic year will be Isabel Ruane ’14 and … Katherine Xue ’13. They were selected after an evaluation of writing submitted by nearly two dozen student applicants … publication and harvardmagazine.com , and edit copy. Ruane, of Wilton, Connecticut, and Mather House, was a member of …
Issue: September-October 2011
An Ancient Herbal Remedy
… The blue evergreen hydrangea’s history as a natural … era, information about the plant’s root (and about hundreds of other Chinese herbal remedies) first appeared as part of a written collection of oral traditions said to have …
Issue: May-June 2012
Lonesome No Longer
… Sweet-talking the crowd, the musicians of the contemporary folk trio … swung from an aching ballad to a blazing, breakneck cover of “Johnny B. Goode.” In the past few years, Wisewater’s …
Issue: September-October 2015
E-mail Update
… During the April 2 disclosure that the e-mail accounts of a … times in connection with an Administrative Board review of students’ academic misconduct (see “ E-mail Imbroglio ,” …
Issue: July-August 2013
Banjos and Balance Sheets
… executive. Photograph courtesy Compass Records In the latter part of the "go-go Eighties," Alison Brown '84 seemed destined to … Barney, she was crunching numbers for the underwriting of tax-exempt bonds and walking to work wearing a business …
“When You Hear These Lectures, They're All Me”
… “These lectures are hard for me,” Toni Morrison, Litt.D. ’89, … from her literature students had aided the development of her argument: “Now, when you hear these lectures, they’re … Nigger” and Harriet Jacobs’s memoir, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, then illustrated with examples from her own …
Hockey Wrap-Up
… Women’s Hockey The top-ranked icewomen (32-2, 22-0 Ivy) dominated the East all season but fell to fourth ranked Wisconsin in … (17-13-4, 12-7-3 ECAC) finished their season by winning 6 of 7 games, earning them a trip to the conference …
Issue: May-June 2008
Read Better, Sleep More
… Last fall , I met a lot of confused first-years. I worked as a peer tutor at the College's Writing Center, helping undergraduates improve … the writer's carefully embedded images. I wasn't surprised; just about all first-years quickly realize that Expos …
![The 1946 team: Coach Stahl stands at left in back; Don Swegan wears #14, third from left. [Jack Clark apparently missed the photo.]](https://www.harvardmagazine.com//sites/default/files/styles/topic_teaser/public/img/article/0312/bkm_194546_sm_0.jpg.webp?itok=bF5Ikyow "Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Athletic Communications Office")
Hoopsters from 1946 Redux
… With Harvard, Ivy League champions and the #12 seed in the East, set to play Vanderbilt, the #5 seed, Thursday at the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament in Albuquerque, the sports … on the historic game. Jeffrey Toobin ’82, J.D. ’86, of The New Yorker, for example, wrote an online post …
Hiram Hunn Awards 2014
… Seven alumni are to receive the Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, on September 19. The …
Issue: September-October 2014
Radcliffe Institute Announces 2020-2021 Fellows
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ’s 2020-2021 … rate for the incoming class was 2.8 percent, from a pool of nearly 1,400 applicants. Radcliffe is planning a virtual fellowship at this time, with the possibility of a residential component, pending decisions on …
Update: Harvard versus Cornell
… Harvard faced Cornell at the Stadium on October 11 with three top receivers sidelined … sophomore Levi Richards, as well as Chrissis’s second score of the day, a 22-yard scamper on a reverse that put Harvard … co-favorite Yale. The Crimson compiled 423 yards in total offense, diversifying its potent passing attack with …
IMF’s Christine Lagarde at HKS
… The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) class of 2012 numbers … almost 600 students, representing 81 countries, and many of its members appeared, along with family and friends, at …