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Lenk Nominated to Highest Massachusetts Court
… The honorable Barbara A. Lenk, J.D. ’79, currently a senior associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, has been nominated to the …
President’s Challenge Finalists Announced
… Finalists in the President’s Challenge for social entrepreneurship have … health. The 10 finalist teams, selected from a pool of more than 170, will each receive a $5,000 grant, … 2012. “At the i-Lab, we help students bring all kinds of projects forward to the world, but are especially excited …
Harvard Medalists
… Five people received the Harvard Medal for outstanding service to the University … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement Day. Charles W. Collier, M.T.S. ’73. … you have served Harvard through your deep knowledge of philanthropy, careful diplomacy, and hard work, giving …
Issue: July-August 2012
On Terrorism
… In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings this past Monday, and tragic death of an MIT police officer last night and the unfolding …
Harvard College Unveils Dunster Renovation Plans
… The College today released design details for the forthcoming renovation of Dunster House, scheduled to begin right after … and to conclude before classes resume in the fall of 2015. Dunster is the first undergraduate residence to …
Harvard’s Honorary-Degree Recipients 2019
… DURING THE MORNING EXERCISES of the 368th Commencement, on May 30, … degrees on five men and four women—the first cohort of honorands to receive their degrees from the University’s …
Women Leaders
… As President Faust concludes her Harvard service, two other women leaders figured prominently in Commencement week. … firm back in the day when we manufactured a lot of jewelry in Rhode Island, and he would come home, eat … she said to me, “When you get there, there will be a lot of kids who have a lot more than you do.…There is going to …
Issue: July-August 2018
Harvard College’s Cross-Charles Classes
… The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is nearing a vote that will transform, and standardize, scheduling of classes. The motion presented to the faculty at its … discussion , he highlighted general problems that had arisen over time, making it difficult for students to enroll …
New Aid for Brazilian Students
… including slots for undergraduates and graduate- and professional-school students. Postdoctoral fellowships and a visiting professorship will also be funded. "We intend to build … proclaimed Rousseff, speaking through a translator, during the formal announcement at Loeb House. "We are just now …
Sister Schools
… Morgan are only about 35 miles apart, but in many ways, the distance between the two California girls' schools seems … mark its centennial in 2007. Julia Morgan, bursting out of rented space at one college, will soon move into newly … Castilleja, the bill was nearly $8,000 more. (Both schools offer generous financial aid.) Joan Z. Lonergan Photography …
Issue: May-June 2004
Prowlers Discover Harvard Valuables
… Emilie Norris and Nina Cohen are the prowlers, officially sanctioned and strictly aboveboard. … Survey. Norris and Cohen are invited into administrative offices, residential Houses, final clubs, into attics and …
Issue: March-April 2003
Princeton Preps
… Prep schooled. The best training to become a Harvard dean? A Princeton … so this evidence, published in the November 7, 2018, issue of our peer magazine, Princeton Alumni Weekly , strongly … Harvard (and, like all Tigers, stoic—or heedless—in face of sartorial criticism), are Michelle Williams, Princeton …
Issue: March-April 2019
“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 …
Campaigning, College-Style
… The Undergraduate Council (UC) unveiled 24-hour Lamont … than half the tickets were sold. In the wake of a rained-out Springfest the previous semester, the Wyclef … in an unusually contentious race for UC president. Instead of the expected contest of John Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil …
Issue: March-April 2006
Winter’s Bright Spots
… The Stevens-Coolidge Place , an estate in North Andover, … organized by the property’s steward, the Trustees of Reservations. (Farther west, in Stockbridge, the Trustees … Winterlights events at Naumkeag . )This former summer home of Helen and John Gardner Coolidge, A.B. 1884 (a descendant …
Issue: November-December 2018