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Arthur Rosenthal, Longtime Harvard University Press Director, Has Died
… to 1990, died Saturday at age 93 at his home in Manhattan, The New York Times reported . Rosenthal was widely … appeal to a general audience. He assumed the directorship of HUP at a moment of crisis. The press, with its focus on publishing academic …
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, …
What Work Means
… Not long ago , I was talking with a representative of a large private company that recruits at Harvard. The company naturally seeks to make money. As an economics … that focus aligns with my priorities. I’m not opposed to profit goals—I’ll likely work in the private sector after …
Issue: November-December 2023
Speak Memory
… to by a boy, waiting for rain," said T.S. Eliot '10 into the microphone. He was giving a reading at Sanders Theatre and making the first recording — of his poems "Gerontion" and "The Hollow Men" — on the … Department) by Frederick C. Packard Jr. '20, a Harvard professor of public speaking much interested in recording …
Issue: May-June 2003
HIID, Dismantled
… mission and outreach, with new international programs in the schools and new or expanded academic centers that focus … Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID)--one of the University's first, and largest, foci for … the unforeseeable risks inherent in a worldwide enterprise such as HIID, however well managed." The chief …
Homes Away from Homes
… I stayed through Commencement this past June to write for the Crimson and volunteer during reunion events. The day … Illinois, and I was seriously contemplating throwing all of my clothes into garbage bags and chucking them out the … Internet has shaped modern college life, and they were surprised when I told them that their own high-school kids …
Issue: September-October 2007
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
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
John Harvard, Jedi Knight
… Charles Joseph McNamara, 2007 graduate, delivers the Latin Oration (with translation) titled "Iohannes … ( English translation follows ) Praeses Bok, Decani et Professores, familiae et amici, atque omnes gradum suscepturi … non ultimum est! Alumnorum Conlegium iam in fabularum officina laborat ut redire ad theatrum velimus et partibus …
Breaking Bread
… In his new show on Bloomberg TV, Alexander Heffner ’12 uses the universal language of food to speak with governors and senators from across the … spectrum—about the divisive politics threatening the health of American democracy. In Massachusetts, he shares oysters …
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
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
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
Almost Like Being There
… on-line access to intellectual life throughout the University. A new, experimental venture called Harvard at Home offers capsule versions of lectures, courses, and events. The program is, in part, a …
University People
… Doctor in the House Harvey V. Fineberg, Harvard’s provost, began a … December 16 for what was described as an early-stage cancer of the prostate. Fineberg, himself an M.D. (’71, as well as … to his e-mails on New Year’s Day, when he shared news of his recuperation and excellent prognosis, based on the …