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Faculty Diversity
… long absence, stroll through Harvard Yard or return to any other university campus, two questions usually come to mind: … today's students look different. This is not just a matter of fashion (though that's surely true), but also a matter of faces. Colleges in general are now far more diverse than …
Issue: March-April 2002
"Extraordinary Bonuses"
… returns on endowment assets have been much stronger than the financial markets in general, the performance-based pay … Management Company (HMC) to compensate its investment professionals has annually produced a few outsized paychecks … attention, and prompted unusual responses from University offcials. During fiscal year 2003, the foreign fixed-income …
Issue: March-April 2004
2005-2006 Ledecky Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2005-2006 academic year will be junior John A. La Rue … Widdicombe, who were selected from a competitive evaluation of two dozen student writers’ applications for the position. … focus on U.S. politics and social policy. As editor of SWIFT , a student-run satire magazine, he has …
Issue: September-October 2005
Frank Rich to Leave New York Times
… The New York Times has announced that Frank Rich ’71, a … the newspaper for 30 years, will leave its pages for those of New York magazine . His last column will run on March 13. Rich, profiled in a cover article for Harvard Magazine, wrote …
Nontraditional Students Surge
… As times change , so does traditional Harvard: the small, parochial school for ministers transformed over … the Center for Education Statistics, more than two-fifths of students in higher education today are nontraditional, … nontraditional students, and in 2036, the majority of students enrolled at the University will most likely be …
Issue: September-October 2011
"My life had been uplifted"
… Had it not been for the “Living with Life-Threatening Illness” course, Christie … and two children in inner-city Boston. An untreatable case of anal-rectal cancer had left her in excruciating, … body-contorting pain. For several months in the spring of 2004, however, these two spiritual women connected …
Issue: January-February 2006
Harvard Law School
… The Class Day address by Samantha Power, J.D. ’99, Lindh … Thursday, May 27, degree candidates are invited to a "sunrise breakfast" beginning at 7 a.m. Candidates will gather …
“God Created Harvard”
… Before he earned a master of philosophy degree from Cambridge University on a … career with roles on Judging Amy , Six Feet Under, and other television shows, Joshua Preven ’91 delivered the … His revelations brought down the house. Read the full text of his speech in this PDF from the July-August 1991 issue . …
July 2, Day 1
… Lawrence H. Summers became the University's twenty-seventh president on Sunday, July 1. Next day, photographers visited his office in Massachusetts Hall and found an accouterment novel … for administration, from the rear; Joe Wrinn, director of news and public affairs). Photographs by Justin Allardyce …
Issue: September-October 2001
Glass Jelly
… The blue beauty at left is Porpita mediterranea rendered in … These jellies, moved by wind and wave across the surface of the open sea, are composed of colonies of specialized organisms. They trap and subdue …
Issue: May-June 2008
A Gay Man Asks A Tough Question
… David Thorpe ’91 was a fresh-out-of-the-closet sophomore when he decided to take a break from … with those around him. Following this semester-long journey of self-discovery, Thorpe returned to Harvard as a junior. …
Gifts and Endowments, 2005
… The rich get richer, at least as measured by annual giving … in March by the University’s alumni affairs and development office. Duringthe fiscal year ended June 30, 2005, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the business, medical, and law …
Issue: September-October 2006
Down East Dazzlers
… Holmes were poking around on a hill in Paris, Maine, in the southwestern part of the state, when they spied a clear green crystal sticking out of the dirt. It was the first gem tourmaline discovered in …
Issue: September-October 2001
Growing through OCD
… writes Charles M. Barber ’85 in his memoir, Songs from the Black Chair . Barber, who spent a decade as a counselor in two of New York City’s largest homeless shelters, is now a writer and researcher at the Yale University School of Medicine’s Program for Recovery and Community Health. He …
Issue: March-April 2006
Harvard and Havana
… took power , direct travel and communications between the United States and Cuba have been proscribed. But … are now widening, with the result that the presence of Harvard scholars and students in Cuba, and of Cubans at Harvard, is no longer rare. Some of this …