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Update: Harvard versus Columbia
… The race tightens. Brown, previously unbeaten in Ivy League … Columbia, 42-28, at the Stadium. With Ivy records of 4-1, Harvard, Brown, and Penn are now locked in a … the week after, the Crimson could gain at least a piece of the Ivy title. Quarterback Chris Pizzotti’s right arm was …
A Dean's Summer Reading
… In a Q-and-A with the Boston Globe this week, Harvard Law School Dean Martha … Allegra Goodman ’89 and Gish Jen ’77, RF ’02; a biography of Louis Brandeis; short stories by Alice Munro; and a book … school, has written a book. And she says she finds works of fiction just as important for her work as a law professor …
At Harvard Medical International, Changes Afoot
… Harvard Medical International (HMI), a nonprofit subsidiary of Harvard Medical School that provides medical consulting … to international clients, may be facing major changes. In the organization's 2007 annual report, released last month, …
Endowment Performance
… highly diversified asset mix and investment strategies for the endowment in 1991, financial returns have been strong—and handsomely ahead of market results in general. The annualized rate of return for the past five years (even including the losses …
Issue: November-December 2004
David Williams
… and income affect health, that’s clear. But why, as is the case, should the most-advantaged black women in the United States—college-educated, relatively well-off—experience higher rates of infant mortality, obesity, and hypertension than the …
Issue: May-June 2007
Hirum Hunn Awards
… Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarship Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. The awards are named for …
Issue: September-October 2004
Harvard Medalists
… The Harvard Alumni Association surprised President Lawrence … Photograph by Stu Rosner Sidney R. Knafel ’52, M.B.A. ’54, of New York City— As a loyal alumni leader and …
Issue: July-August 2006
Ronald Kessler
… In on-line biomedical databases, Ronald Kessler ranks as the most widely cited author in psychiatry and psychology. Yet Kessler, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, is neither …
Issue: November-December 2005
Why Ivy Athletes Score in Careers
… Or does participation in sports build a special kind of human capital that isn’t taught in classrooms, one that … educational contributions to all undergraduates? Holman professor of business administration Paul Gompers ’86, Ph.D. ’93, and colleagues at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) compared the …
Issue: November-December 2024
Practice Makes Perfect
… Get in shape for the national elections by doing your duty as a Harvard … listing candidates for Overseer and for elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association will arrive in mid April … Harvey '71, M.B.A. '74. Baltimore. Chair and CEO, The Enterprise Foundation. Walter H. Morris Jr. '73, M.B.A. '75. …
Spring Lax Snapshots
… Lacrosse The men’s team (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) took down Penn, 13-8, in their … overtime) and after that performance was named Ivy Rookie of the Week for the second time. The lax women (3-5, 1-0 … Junior goalie Kathryn Tylander earned Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honors for her 12-save effort in the game. …
Issue: May-June 2006
Two Harvardians Win MacArthur Fellowships
… Two Harvard alumnae are among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows announced today. Dorothy Roberts, … social service systems. A faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania since 2012, she holds named professorships in the law school and the department of …
Chapter & Verse
… conduct our lives in such a way that if everyone were to do the same, the world would be a better place.” Tilden Euster … his delightful ‘Wild Bird Hickok and His Friends,’ writes of French dime novels set in le Far-Ouest: ‘I hope that I … Karen Myers and Nikos Pappas identified this fragment of a poem from Isaac Watts’s collection Horae Lyricae …
Issue: July-August 2007
Thomas W. Lentz
… In the early 1980s, when Thomas W. Lentz was earning a Ph.D. at … art—Persian painting in particular—the director of the Fogg Art Museum was a professor of fine arts who actually had time to profess. That …
Issue: July-August 2005
Restoring Justice
… “I spent 28 years in prison,” Armand Coleman was saying to the Harvard Law School students and professors gathered over Zoom on an early spring afternoon. … she wrote to the Dalai Lama for help and advice. To her surprise, he responded by asking to meet with her, and the hour …
Issue: July-August 2021