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Honoris Causa
… 356th Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the audience, and President Derek Bok read the citations. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Photograph by Stu … faculty member since 1971, Aaron was the founding director of the Program in the History of American Civilization and …
Issue: July-August 2007
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
Rakesh Khurana Appointed Harvard College Dean
… Rakesh Khurana, Bower professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School … of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith announced the news in an e-mail message to the community this … environmental quality, or poverty by creating social enterprises. (See the forthcoming feature on ALI in the …
Students Sue Harvard Over Harassment
… In January, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced sanctions against John Comaroff, professor of anthropology and of African and African …
Issue: May-June 2022
Political Diversity?
… The University’s faculty are increasingly diverse … politically as well? “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University,” the late William F. Buckley is said …
Issue: September-October 2011
Harvard Proponent
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Walter H. Morris Jr. The Harvard Alumni Association’s new president, Walter H. … years ago, but he has never stopped learning at Harvard. He often returns for lectures, meetings, and presentations on … the country, maybe even around the world. “I was in awe of the Internet’s reach,” Morris says, “to the point where I …
Issue: September-October 2008
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 …
Cairo Conference
… The specter of Charles Darwin hovered over the Harvard Arab Alumni Association’s fourth annual Arab … ’57, the former prime minister and current senate president of Jordan, touched upon the notion of adaptability in a …
Issue: September-October 2009
Uptown to "Harlemworld"
… Video opened its first store in Harlem, on 125th Street. The outlet soon became the third-highest-grossing Blockbuster in all of New York City. "People were flabbergasted at how much … many who should have known better were missing the reality of Harlem—in this case, its immense business potential. …
Issue: May-June 2002
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 …
“It’s Tournament Time”
… Last Tuesday, with just over three minutes left in the game, the Harvard women’s basketball team was pummeling … it out,” Moore said at the time, “whereas I think a lot of us thought that we would just hit the ground running … coalescing in early December when they led the University of Michigan 28-20 in the second quarter. Then Turner injured …
“Be Unlikely Inseparables”
… in a typical moment.” After earlier speakers referenced the class of 2024’s “resilience” in the face of challenges—including fierce debates about the limits of …
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 …
Boston Roller Derby
… Cristin Juda lets loose as her alter ego, “Brutyl Lithium.” The Boston Roller Derby track name is a play on the compound … “jammer” from each side fights to get past the pack of opposing “blockers” without being knocked out of bounds. As everyone plays offense and defense …
Issue: March-April 2018
Football 2022: Columbia 21-Harvard 20
… LAST WEEKEND we all fell back. The Harvard football team took this edict perhaps too much … points, kept star runner Aidan Borguet from breaking one of his patented long gainers, and blocked (or at least got a hand on) three Harvard field-goal attempts, the last of which, coming with 1:17 left, would have given the …