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John F. Kennedy Tried to Mediate
… John F. Kennedy, S.B. ’40, LL.D. ’56, then a U.S. senator, gave one of the two addresses delivered on the afternoon of Commencement day in 1956. With words and anecdotes that …
Congratulations
… The Harvard Alumni Association awards were established in … were to be honored on October 27 during the HAA Board of Directors’ fall meeting in Cambridge. Some of their many contributions over the years are highlighted …
Issue: November-December 2005
Aulus and Me
… As a humanities concentrator, I’m often asked if “students still read.” I work as an assistant for the head of the Harvard libraries, so I’ve served on a few panels for …
Issue: September-October 2011
Harvard Ph.D. Thomas A. Steitz Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
… Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, …
Behind the Scenes: The Language of Whales
… editor Jonathan Shaw reflects on how he first learned about the research into decoding the language of sperm whales and how he followed the developing story. … me about an ambitious effort to decipher the vocalizations of sperm whales. Most cetaceans produce “whalesong,” but …
Crimson Take First Ivy WNIT Win
… All is not lost for Harvard basketball. As the men’s team fell to Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the women’s basketball team made their own history Thursday night by defeating Hofstra 73-71 at the Women's National Invitational Tournament …
Genomic Architecture
… One of the enduring puzzles of biology is how our large, complex genomes function, let alone fit, inside the cramped compartment of a cell’s nucleus. The total DNA …
Issue: January-February 2010
From Soaps to Solos
… until he auditioned with his roommate, on a lark, for one of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ … Institute in London, he sang an operatic phrase as part of an exercise. The instructor encouraged him to take voice …
Issue: July-August 2008
Watertown-Gown
… to neighboring Watertown, Massachusetts, where in May 2001 the University purchased a 30-acre commercial property known as the Arsenal for $162 million. Watertown officials and residents, concerned about the potential loss of future tax revenue under a nonprofit owner, initially …
Issue: November-December 2002
Reischauer, Rubin to Complete Corporation Service
… from senior fellow-elect William F. Lee (see below). The University announced today that the two longest-serving members of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, … is hard to stay out of the month-to-month issues” that arise and that might, at other institutions, be solely the …
Memorial Church Gets New Bell
… The center of Harvard Yard will once again be filled with the sonorous clang of a large bell, after a new one was installed yesterday in …
Tutors: Good, and Cheap
… our sixteenth quarter-century, let’s spend a small fraction of that amount improving the places where so much real learning happens: the 12 … Houses. By far the finest and most memorable part of my academic life at Harvard was my three years as a …
Issue: September-October 2011
A Community Innovation Lab
… Imagine a large blank bulletin board hanging in the middle of Upham’s Corner in Dorchester covered with … Or interactive, multi-touch panels running along both sides of the entryway of the affordable-housing project Orchard …
Issue: January-February 2013
Sound as Ever
… The lore of singer-songwriter Gram Parsons ’69 often goes something like this: considered the “father” of country rock music, he pioneered a new genre …
Issue: July-August 2023
News from Harvard@Home
… Harvard@Home, the University-wide initiative for putting learning on-line, offers several new programs for 2004. They include: *Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, …
Issue: January-February 2004