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International Investments
… Harvard’s global ambitions to study and know more about the world, and to send more students out into it, were triply boosted at the end of the spring term with the creation of a new post—vice provost for international …
Issue: July-August 2006
Eric Holder Named HLS Class Day Speaker
… The first African-American Attorney General of the United … to President Barack Obama, J.D. ’91, and later as one of three members on the vice-presidential selection …
Football Star Justice Shelton-Mosley to Transfer
… Call him Commodore Shelton-Mosley. Taking advantage of major college football’s so-called “graduate-transfer … ’19, who in three-plus seasons at Harvard became one of the school’s greatest kick returners and wide receivers, …
Harvard Portrait: Jelani Nelson
… Jelani Nelson lights up when he talks about algorithms. The soft-spoken assistant professor of computer science is a rising star in a field made …
Issue: May-June 2015
Harvard Confers Six Honorary Degrees
… D uring the 372nd Commencement this morning, Harvard will celebrate … honorary degrees on four men and two women: • a pair of life-sciences leaders (including an alumna who is a Nobel … laureate); • a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer (of a civil rights pioneer who is one of Harvard’s most …
Cornering COVID-19
… Only immunity can bring an end to the current pandemic—whether through vaccination or the potentially deadly ordeal of infection. Unfortunately, it’s not a given that either a bout of COVID-19, or any of the experimental vaccines now in …
Issue: July-August 2020
Harvard's Library System to be Restructured
… The University's sprawling yet intellectually extraordinary … financial, and technological restructuring, according to an official Task Force on University Libraries. The … interdisciplinarity, and the destabilizing influence of the digital revolution. The task force report makes five …
Difference Voices
… Once each semester , stretching into the recesses of recent memory, the Lampoon has deposited a parody of its arch-rival, the Crimson , in every undergraduate …
Fall Sports in Progress
… Harvard Sports on the Web Visit the Crimson 's official website, … rushed a restart, lofting the free kick over a wall of surprised Eli defenders to forward Beth Totman '03, who punched …
Issue: November-December 2001
Sheryl Sandberg to Speak at HBS
… The chief operating officer of Facebook , Sheryl Sandberg ’91, M.B.A. ’95, will address … School (HBS) graduates as Class Day speaker on May 23, the school has announced . Since arriving from rival Google …
Disruptive Influences
… as a new high-school graduate, Greg Cohen ’07 played on the U.S. under-19 national lacrosse team and scored nine … Crimson in scoring with 26 points and being named Rookie of the Year by the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. But on the first day of practice his sophomore year, Cohen broke his right arm in …
Issue: May-June 2007
Social Clubs Must File Gender Breakdown
… To be recognized officially by the College, and avoid becoming a target of its new policy that sanctions members of unrecognized …
The Week’s Words
… “The Rule of Truth” In a year of harsh attacks on higher education, and worrisome erosions … emerita, focused her May 21 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) oration on the values and worth of universities, and the threats posed …
Issue: July-August 2024
Curating a More Diverse Campus Environment
… After more than a year of study and surveys, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Task Force on Visual Culture and …
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 …