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Honoris Causa
… Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew … . Donald Roswell Hopkins, M.P.H. ’70. Director of international health programs for The Carter Center, the leader of efforts to eradicate Guinea worm disease. Doctor of …
Issue: July-August 2013
Harvard Medalists
… On Commencement day , four alumni received the HAA’s Harvard Medal, which recognizes extraordinary service to the University. The names of three recipients had been previously publicized; the surprise announcement at the meeting of a fourth, retiring HAA …
Issue: July-August 2014
Baker Library, Renewed
… Baker Library at the Business School reopened officially on September 19 … for professors, a net increase of 30. A faculty commons comprises three seminar rooms and a small dining room where one …
Issue: November-December 2005
Radcliffe Announces Knafel Center and Fund
… The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study today announced … Gymnasium has been renamed the Knafel Center in honor of venture capitalist Sidney R. Knafel ’52, M.B.A. ’54, … co-chairs the Radcliffe Campaign and is honorary co-chair of the forthcoming University-wide campaign. “A great …
Mahadevan, Huybers, and Others Named MacArthur Fellows
… Applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and climate scientist … Fellows. Mahadevan, who is Lola England de Valpine professor of applied mathematics, is popularly known for precisely …
University News Briefs
… Climate-change Currents The Climate Change Solutions Fund—announced in April 2014 by … coping with extreme heat events (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) to work on energy and climate policy in … hopes it may, by then, develop as a commercial “enterprise research campus” (see “A New Era in Allston,” …
Issue: May-June 2015
In Your Service
… salute two outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf during 2013, and happily … honorarium. Art historian Jennifer L. Roberts—Agassiz professor of the humanities and chair of the committee on degrees in …
Issue: January-February 2014
HBS Students as Runway Models
… out front, and a thumping, pounding electro-pop beat from the DJ upstairs, the Bijou Club in Boston’s theater district welcomed the annual charity fashion show of the Retail and Luxury Goods Club of Harvard Business School (HBS) on the night of November …
Atul Gawande and Hendrik Hertzberg Nominated for National Magazine Awards
… nominated for National Magazine Awards are associate professor of surgery Atul Gawande, for one of his articles on … and Hendrik Hertzberg ’65, for three of his Talk of the Town commentaries. Winners will be announced on May 9. …
Harvard Portrait: Abigail Donovan and Laura Prager
… The United States has more than 70 million children—and … need help and those trained to give it led assistant professors of psychiatry Laura M. Prager ’80 (right) and Abigail L. …
Issue: March-April 2013
Harvard Appoints Interim Winthrop House Leaders
… ’78 and Mary Herlihy-Gearan will serve as interim deans of Winthrop House for the new academic year. They succeed Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Climenko clinical professor of law, and Stephanie R. Robinson, lecturer on law, …
At Camp, a Community
… car sped away from Logan Airport, into Boston and out along the Charles, my eyes widened as the cupolas of Harvard came into view. “Do I really go there?” I mused … my mum and I were just passing through Boston, dropping off one of my fellow camp counselors at the airport before …
Issue: November-December 2011
What Makes Teams Tick
… Many of the most pressing issues of our time—climate change, economic inequality, human … to successful interdisciplinary work has found that the “emotional aspect” of such collaborations is at least as …
Issue: July-August 2016
A Literary Chameleon
… ’91 has written a zombie-apocalypse novel, a coming-of-age novel set in the world of the black elite, a satiric allegory following a … black privileged kids coming of age in the 1980s, was a surprise bestseller. Whitehead’s new novel, The Underground …
Issue: September-October 2016
Thank You
… The Harvard Alumni Association Awards recognize outstanding … and challenge. James V. Baker '68, M.B.A. '71: As president of the Harvard Club of London, regional director for Europe, and chair of the …