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Nieman Foundation Curator Bob Giles to Retire
… Bob Giles , curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism for the past decade, announced today that he would retire at the end of the academic year, next June. Read the retirement …
Stanford Imposes Deeper Cuts, Too
… reductions would be required. In a presentation on March 5, the provost announced that Stanford's $800-million "general … funds, while schools receive between seven and 35 percent of their revenue from this source. Schools that depend … … Updated. Citing the deepening economic and financial crises, Stanford has decided to make deeper expense cuts in …
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
Team Teaching
… members spend as much time preparing for each class as they do conducting the actual discussion sections. Those … First-year HBS courses are divided into sections of about 90 students, who take all of their classes together. The nine LCA faculty members met …
Issue: September-October 2006
FAS Appoints New Financial and Administrative Dean
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith announced … beginning November 2. Kirwan currently serves as secretary of administration and finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , a post she assumed in …
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 …
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 …
Directing Development
… Tamara Elliott Rogers ’74 has been appointed the University’s vice president for alumni affairs and … nationwide search, fills the vacancy left by the departure of Donella Rapier, M.B.A. ’92, announced last winter, and … a large capital campaign expected to be a major element of Faust’s presidency. (Robert Cashion, director of …
Issue: November-December 2007
Weighing In on Wages
… The committee appointed May 8 by then-president Neil L. … principles and policies concerning the economic welfare of lower-paid workers, whether employed by the University or … charged with considering the desirability and feasibility of a uniform minimum-wage floor for workers at Harvard. The …
Issue: September-October 2001
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
President Faust's ROTC Commissioning Speech
… Listen to the live audio recording. … is a privilege to congratulate you on your commissioning as officers. This moment in your lives marks a great … at dawn while your roommates slept in. You have jumped out of airplanes, challenged your bodies and your brains and …
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
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
After Slavery Report, What Next?
… The hard part has barely begun. That was the reality that … the University’s historic ties to slavery. The most urgent of those questions relate to repair and atonement, and to … merely theoretical: included in the report were a series of broad recommendations for redress, to which the Harvard …
A Marathon Dream Deferred
… The day of the 2018 Boston Marathon was blustery, rainy, and … in Newport, Rhode Island, and wound up winning with a time of two hours and 39 minutes. It seemed that everything was …