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HAA Clubs Committee Awards
… The HAA clubs committee Awards honor individuals who provide … to the 2008 recipients (listed below) at the HAA Board of Directors and Alumni Leadership Conference dinner on February 1. Modesta Garcia, Ed.M. ’79, of Daly City, California. Garcia has been president of both …
Issue: March-April 2008
At Long Last, CGIS
… than a decade after a study committee first envisioned it, the completed Center for Government and International … today,” said President Lawrence H. Summers. (The final cost of the 249,000-square-foot complex reportedly exceeded $140 million.) “It has developed into a complex of buildings designed, redesigned, and redesigned by Harry …
Issue: January-February 2006
An Enterprise Campus Emerges in Allston
… campus in Allston has been advancing this winter, as the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) and University officials published two amendments to Harvard’s … … Updates on Harvard projects in Allston … 1509 … An Enterprise Campus Emerges in Allston … article …
Harvard Medalists
… Three people received the Harvard Medal for outstanding service, and were publicly … Alumni Association’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Photographs by Stu Rosner Medalists … and Stephen B. Kay. Susan L. Graham ’64—Past president of the Overseers and elected director of the Harvard Alumni …
Issue: July-August 2008
Brevia
… Michael E. Porter , M.B.A. '71, Ph.D. '73, a member of the Business School faculty since 1973 and an internationally recognized scholar of strategy and competitiven Strategist-in-Chief Michael E. …
Purchasing Renewable Energy
… The University announced today that in partnership with MIT, Mass General Brigham hospital, and a group of public and nonprofit organizations in Eastern … Harvard’s Fossil Fuel-Neutral by 2026 subcommittee, comprised of faculty and administrators, wanted Harvard’s …
NSF Announces New Family-Friendly Policies
… The White House and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have announced a new series of policies, the “NSF Career-Life Balance Initiative,” that … delay or suspend NSF grants for up to one year to take care of young children or fulfill other family responsibilities, …
A "Better Answer"
… The search for Harvard’s twenty-eighth president began under … but all the other members were appointed after Summers took office in 2001; the newest, Patricia A. King, elected in … my name.” In retrospect, that should not have been a surprise: he had expressed reluctance to give up his laboratory …
Issue: July-August 2007
“Dialogue across Differences”
… Responding to a traumatic year of events that divided alumni and students alike, new … (HAA) president Moitri Chowdhury Savard ’93 hopes to bring the community together through veritates. This Latin plural … variation on Harvard’s motto—captures “the many shades of gray” reflecting disparate voices, she says. “We have to …
Issue: September-October 2024
Digging Deep into Chinese History
… Editor’s note: Hudson professor of archaeology Rowan K. Flad, a scholar of ancient China (read about his work in “ Chinese Pottery: The First Five Millennia ”), recently returned from Gansu …
Climate-Solutions Investments Exceed 1 Percent of Endowment Assets
… released its annual report on progress toward a 2050 target of “net-zero” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with endowment investments and operations. As of June 30, 2023, the latest fiscal year for which data is available, the …
Winter's End
… THE HOTTEST SHOT ON ICE Tammy Shewchuck '01 has scored more … (152), assists (155) and points (307), bettering the marks of A.J. Mleczko in all three categories (128, 129, and 257 … were second to Dartmouth (top-ranked in the nation for most of the season), who also knocked Harvard out of the ECAC …
Astor von Leisbusch und Sohn
… to shake with passers-by." Phantom may have had the president's ear (see " Phantom Lowell "). Just across … president's house, however, the "Most Responsible Position of any Canine in Country," according to a 1928 Boston … is perhaps no wonder then," she recalled, "that I was surprised upon learning, the first time I attended a game in …
Issue: November-December 2003
Calling All Boxers!
… The Harvard Boxing Club is building an alumni network, and would like to get in touch with all alumni of the College and graduate schools who have boxed (either …
Issue: November-December 2011
Shakespeare's "Tenth Muse"?
… Illustration by Bartek Malysa Perhaps the second-most-cultivated plant in Elizabethan England, … "Queen Elizabeth's navy ran on that stuff," says Clay professor of scientific archaeology Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, who …
Issue: September-October 2001