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Tracy K. Smith Named Harvard Arts Medalist
… Tracy K. Smith ’94, poet laureate of the United States , will receive the Harvard Arts Medal during the opening ceremony of Arts First (May 2-5), the University’s annual …
Mediation via Movie
… When Carlos Sandoval '74 first presented Farmingville, the 2004 Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary he … in a still from Farmingville . Photographs courtesy of POV and PBS As Bianculli-Dyber, a feisty activist for … retired for health reasons, is keenly attuned to matters of communication and interpretation—how people listen …
Issue: May-June 2004
Cambridge 02138
… Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan Re “ The Physics of the Familiar ” (by Jonathan Shaw, … David W. Harralson Hollywood, Calif. I was surprised that there was no mention of the concept of “CO 2 …
Issue: May-June 2008
Barney Frank To Step Down
… Barney Frank ’61, IOP ’71, J.D. ’77, G ’68, known as one of the nation’s leading liberal voices and a key lawmaker in the most sweeping overhaul of banking and financial-industry regulations in decades, …
Space Invaders
… The world’s first magazine devoted to science fiction, … Ordway III ’49. The Ordway family maid one day left a copy of Amazing Stories on a dining room chair when Ordway was a … “but I always loved the pulps.” He gave his collection of about 900 sci-fi pulps to the library in 2002. They are a …
Issue: September-October 2007
Harvard@Home
… The University-wide on-line learning initiative, … Living Longer: Part III” presents the final segment of a two-day Alumni College event that examined the latest … In the new segment, Daniel Federman, Walter Distinguished Professor of medicine, moderates two panel discussions: one …
Issue: May-June 2005
Where Pedagogy Is "Interesting"
… learning how to teach were scarce. As a budding assistant professor, he took the initiative, seeking out slightly older faculty friends … advice included pointers as simple as breaking his habit of talking toward the left side of the room more often than …
Issue: September-October 2001
University People
… Preacher in Chief. Jonathan L. Walton , who joined the Divinity School faculty in 2010 and is a resident … Pusey minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer professor of Christian morals, effective July 1. He succeeds the late …
Issue: July-August 2012
Harvard Layoffs Update, and More "Reshaping" to Come
… Harvard's layoffs of staff members begun last week prompted a labor protest … communications from deans to faculty and staff members at the affected schools reveal more about their financial situations; and details have emerged about …
HarvardX at One
… The edX online-learning venture, born last May, is … operating entity for the initiative, shows signs of both expanding ambitions and the interesting questions … from the Australian National University to Delft University of Technology—bringing its roster to a dozen institutions. …
Issue: May-June 2013
Therapeutic Cloning Research Approved
… Scientists at Harvard and the affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston announced on June … rapidly accelerate research into causes and cures. Because of the highly charged ethical and political debate over the … to pursue the research only “after more than two yearsof intensive review by eight different institutional review …
Issue: September-October 2006
Update: Harvard Encampment Ends
… on multi-semester probation and suspended five students for their involvement in the Yard encampment , according to Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP). The group says that 12 … to HOOP. In a May 14 email announcing the peaceful end of the encampment, interim president Alan M. Garber asked …
Curiosities: Pretty Daggers
… Curator Steven A. LeBlanc has picked out the Peabody Museum’s most beautiful instruments of pain. Some 150 of these knives, daggers, swords, guns, maces, shields, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Class Day Speech by Tim Russert
… by Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press So, this is Harvard. Look at all those scholars … ago. In that same period, we’ve had two from Yale. Surprised by that? If you think you have it bad, you should try …
Harvard President Claudine Gay Testifies Before Congress
… after Hamas’s terroristic assault on Israel, a coalition of more than 30 Harvard student groups released a statement holding “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding … violence.” The now-infamous letter—and the three days of Columbus Day weekend preceding a public University …