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… With Thanks Marina N. Bolotnikova ’14 joined the editorial staff in November 2015. As associate editor, … ranging from linguistics research to new interpretations of race in America. She directed, and significantly … attempts to stifle politically unpopular ideas. I was surprised when moving to the highly educated state of …
Issue: May-June 2021
Yesterday’s News
… When an alumnus threatens to cut a $10-million bequest out of his will unless outspokenly pro-German Professor Hugo Münsterberg is fired, the University replies that it “cannot tolerate any …
Issue: September-October 2024
Eye on Harvard
… and about Harvard people” that appears on InTimeTV.com. The subject matter is broad—topics so far have ranged from … not just another TV show. It really represents a confluence of important social and technological trends.” A medical … have included Gurel’s classmate, Paul Kent ’86, assistant professor of pediatric hematology/oncology at Rush University …
Issue: January-February 2008
Poise, in Spite of Everything
… “You have to get the eyes right,” says portrait artist Nina Skov Jensen ’25. “You can mess up a lot of other things and it won’t matter, but the eyes have to be right.” That was one of the first lessons Jensen absorbed when she began teaching …
Issue: May-June 2024
Antioch Revealed
… "W hen Paul came to Antioch, it was the third largest city in the world," writes H.V. Morton in his delightful 1936 book In the Steps of St. Paul. In the mid first century C.E., the Syrian metropolis of Antioch (now Antakya, in Turkey), then a capital of the …
Solving Dehydration
… In the 1960s , East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) faced a grave … in 1967. A self-described pacifist living in an age of mandatory physician conscription, he joined the National Institutes of Health rather than serve in Vietnam. The NIH sent …
Issue: January-February 2024
Arts and Sciences Dean to Leave Office
… Friday evening, January 27 , was quiet, with the College dispersed for intercession. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean William C. Kirby was … initiatives focused on China.” Close observers were not surprised that Kirby relinquished the deanship. A senior …
Want to Be a Presidential Nominee? Go to Harvard or Yale
… and Yale have become more inclusive—increasingly opening their gates to students of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic … degrees from Harvard or Yale make up less than two tenths of a percent of the national population, but they constitute …
Home-plate Security
… 12, 1877, in a baseball game between Harvard students and the Live Oaks (a semipro team from Lynn, Massachusetts), … the first man to do so. But controversy over the mystery of who invented and wore the first modern catcher's mask has never quite subsided. An early image of the first catcher's mask, front and center in a Harvard …
Issue: July-August 2004
Harvard Basketball's Zena Edosomwan and His Harvard Legacy
… It is hard to miss Zena Edosomwan ’17, the six-foot-nine, 245-pound power forward on the Harvard … saw him leap over not one, not two, but three teammates—all of whom were at least six-foot-nine—during the slam dunk … just 12.1 minutes per game, and many observers were surprised that the highly touted recruit was not having a bigger …
Bill Gates Promotes Public Service
… Microsoft founder Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. ’07, one of Harvard's best … dropouts, spoke to a large crowd of students at Sanders Theatre on April 21. In a talk titled "Giving Back: Finding … What makes a great teacher? Before his talk, he made a surprise appearance at a Teach for America reception at the …
Brevia
… in mid July that Patricia O’Brien , deputy dean for the past two years and co-master of Currier House, would take a personal leave of absence from her University Hall responsibilities …
Issue: September-October 2006
Money-Manager Compensation
… Compensation data for the most highly paid Harvard Management Company (HMC) … in recent years—were released on the afternoon of December 21, as the campus emptied for the winter recess. … Under HMC’s pay formula, these two senior portfolio professionals each earned more than $25 million in fiscal year …
Issue: March-April 2006
The Collapse of Gaza’s Healthcare System
… surgeon—had left his medical practice in London to treat the mounting number of civilians wounded by Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, commenced in the wake of Hamas’s October …
Spellbound on Stage
… “Anything that involves music and movement. That’s kind of an odd, specific theater thing. But I find that I get cast a lot to play magical creatures of some kind—and also children.” How to Succeed in …
Issue: March-April 2024