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Well Done
… The Harvard Alumni Association Awards were established in … October 18, during the Harvard Alumni Association’s board of directors’ annual fall meeting in Cambridge. Highlights of their many contributions are mentioned below. Paul R. …
Issue: November-December 2006
Yesterday's News
… 1927 The debating team has won four of six matches during a spring-break tour of the Middle West, the editors note. In each debate, …
Issue: May-June 2017
Atul Gawande on Healthcare Now
… Atul Gawande was on the radio show On Point with Tom Ashbrook this week to discuss the future of healthcare in America, including the possible repeal of the 2010 healthcare reform legislation next week. In the …
Ginkgo and Memory
… High on an upper bookshelf in Peter Del Tredici’s office sits a faded box of organic breakfast cereal called GinkgOs. In large letters, it proclaims: “For Sharp Thinking.” The millions who now take Ginkgo biloba products for better …
Simple Headlines Are Better
… empirical evidence behind an old rule for effective writing—the simpler, the better. Weatherhead professor of public policy Todd Rogers , with fellow researchers …
Final-Club Complications
… As members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) prepare to meet this afternoon to … they find, or internalize, in Cambridge. So it was a surprise when, on November 21, the secretary of the faculty …
Dudley’s Square Deal
… bus garage on a weedy 8.5-acre lot in Roxbury, one of Boston’s poorest neighborhoods, is slated to be demolished. Then Bartlett Yard will become Bartlett Place . Plans for … rates to cover the returns as well its own costs. The enterprise requires a precise balancing of monetary interests in …
Issue: January-February 2014
Nobel Prize in Physics Shared by David Wineland, Ph.D. ’70
… David J. Wineland, Ph.D. ’70, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, …
Calendrical Coup?
… The curriculum may be remade, plans for Allston refined and … accomplishment at Harvard would equal revision of the University's uncoordinated, seemingly quixotic … for courses. So an unassuming notice on page 2 of the September 25 University Gazette was of more than …
Issue: November-December 2003
Sandra Grindlay
… Seen here [this photograph not available on-line] at the Fogg Art Museum with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D. 1859, is Sandra Grindlay, curator of the Harvard University Portrait Collection and manager of the University Loan Program. The author of The Song of …
Issue: July-August 2002
Michael R. Bloomberg Named 2014 Commencement Speaker
… philanthropist Michael R. Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66, will be the principal speaker at Harvard's 363rd Commencement on May … Hopkins and Harvard Business School; at the latter, a professorship and the renovated Baker Library | Bloomberg Center are named in honor of his late father, William Henry Bloomberg. Before entering …
Sports Wrap
… Basketball The men’s team (14-4, 3-1 Ivy) had its strongest start in 25 … at midseason. The women hoopsters (11-6, 2-1 Ivy) ran off a 9-4 record against non-conference opponents before … (7-2, 6-1 Ivy) finished second to Princeton and well ahead of Yale at the annual HYP meet held in Princeton, with …
Issue: March-April 2010
Harvard Twice Strikes Gold and Silver in Beijing
… in Beijing won two gold and two silver medals over the weekend. In rowing, Caryn Davies ’05 stroked the United States women's eight to victory, staving off a late surge by the Netherlands. Romania was third. Malcolm Howard ’05, rowing in the five seat of the Canadian men's eight, earned gold in a win over Great …
Musical Mentor
… beautiful music in ballet classes. She remembers nine years of piano lessons less fondly: “[They] somehow never gave me the idea playing piano could be … I started taking lessons from their teacher, too, and—surprise—found myself enjoying plunking away again.” Both sons …
Issue: September-October 2009
David M. Rubenstein to Join Harvard Corporation
… The University announced today that David M. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, the private-equity and … Corporation in July 2017. Although Rubenstein is an alumnus of Duke (where he chairs the board of trustees , with a term …