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Gore to Speak at Sustainability Celebration
… at Harvard on October 22 for a University-wide celebration of sustainability. The event will celebrate Harvard's past achievements, … percent by 2016 ( read more about that in the current issue of Harvard Magazine ). Gore, who drew attention to climate …
Harvard's Googled Library
… In agreements announced December 14, the world's largest search engine, Google, undertook to … on-line reading room to house digital, searchable versions of millions of books belonging to Harvard, Stanford, the University of …
Issue: March-April 2005
Spring Sports
… Rowing The men's heavyweight crew capped its second consecutive … and lightweight events, respectively. Harvard captured five of the top six Sprints events as the freshman and JV … Senior Dave Lingman was again named Ivy League Player of the Year. The women's team (14-10, 7-0 Ivy) also defended …
Issue: July-August 2004
Lightning Strikes Twice
… Last Monday, a Harvard faculty member and an alumnus shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with a third … faculty member and another alumnus did the same: Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer ’85, Ph.D. ’92, and …
Vote Now
… new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. The candidates’ … at the HAA’s annual meeting on June 5, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All Harvard degree holders, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and governance, are entitled to vote …
Issue: May-June 2008
Woods Gets Honorable Discharge, Must Repay Tuition
… Anthony C. Woods, M.P.P. ’08 (the subject of this item in our January-February issue), … dismissal. Woods, who now works in the Washington, D.C., office of New York governor David Paterson, will still be …
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
… 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. and 2 to 2:45 p.m. Panel: "Feminism, Then and Now." 10:30 a.m. to noon, Radcliffe Gym. Moderated by Nancy F. Cott, Pforzheimer director of the Schlesinger Library and Trumbull professor of American history. Annual Luncheon, 12:30 p.m. , …
Chapter & Verse
… Suzanne Ekman hopes someone can identify a source for the following line, possibly from a Mark Van Doren poem: … about whether any difference existed between the “tyranny of the left and that of the right,” replied, “It is the difference between dogs …
Issue: March-April 2008
Alumni Networks
… Compass , a new on-line alumni career network developed by the HAA to replace Professional Connection, is available for free to all alumni and current students of the University. So far, about 15,000 alumni from a wide …
Issue: January-February 2006
Virtual Mass. Hall
… Having brought his office in Massachusetts Hall into the personal-computer age (see "July 2, Day 1," … the Harvard presidency into cyberspace. The website for the office of the president ( www.president.harvard.edu ) offers …
Issue: March-April 2002
Athlete-in-Chief
… In 1978, Harvard won the Ivy League's first women's soccer championship, and that game ball has graced the offices of three Harvard directors of athletics: Jack Reardon '60, …
Issue: September-October 2001
Welcome, Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2008-2009 academic year will be Brittney Moraski ’09 and … Flow ’10, who were selected after a competitive evaluation of writing submitted by student applicants for the position. … feature items, and edit copy before publication. Moraski, of Bark River, Michigan (in the Upper Peninsula), and …
Issue: September-October 2008
Alumni Colleges
… The HAA offers Cambridge forums on South Asia and diplomacy … Asia: A Changing World,” on April 22, is cosponsored by the South Asia Initiative at Harvard ( … project. Panelists include Homi K. Bhabha, Rothenberg professor of English and American literature and language; …
Issue: March-April 2006
Football: Off-Field Incidents
… Head football coach Tim Murphy suspended team captain Matthew C. Thomas ’06 (’07) indefinitely after the Harvard … assault and battery, breaking and entering, and destruction of property. At press time, his case was continuing in the … barbecue on April 29, engaged in fisticuffs with the driver of a Harvard shuttle bus, who was subsequently fired. The …
Issue: September-October 2006
Cambridge Scholars
… scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2006-2007 academic year. Physics and astronomy/astrophysics concentrator Jonathan Blazek, of Western Springs, Illinois, and Quincy House, will be the … at Trinity College; government concentrator Joseph Hanzich, of Trabuco Canyon, California, and Leverett House, is the …
Issue: July-August 2006