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… Because our printer made a mistake in manufacturing the May-June issue, many readers who should have received … have been reprinted and mailed to the affected readers--all of you, we hope--along with the current Harvard Magazine . … other animals without animal research. So it comes as a surprise that editorial policy would allow such an ad to be …
At Odds
… University leaders had planned to chart many of Harvard’s future paths this spring. A revised College … reformulated during two years of study, would come before the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for debate and … sphere depends on collegiality, on a sense of shared enterprise, on a commitment to listening as well as speaking, and …
Issue: May-June 2005
Winter Sports in Progress
… Ice Hockey The men (8-11-2 overall, 6-8-1 ECAC) continued strong play that often has come up a goal or two short. By midseason, their only Ivy League win was a 4-1 November defeat of Yale. Yet, right after exams, the Crimson showed their …
Issue: March-April 2004
News in Brief
… before she became president, on July 1, Claudine Gay filled the vacancy created by her election, appointing Hopi E. Hoekstra as the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She is Agassiz … of the Harvard Corporation. Legacy students typically comprised 11 percent of prior Amherst classes. Enhanced …
Issue: September-October 2023
Curricular review update
… The Harvard College curricular review’s committee on general education published its report to the faculty, available in PDF format at www.fas.harvard.edu … Curriculum ,” from our January-February 2006 issue.] … The Harvard College curricular review’s committee on general …
Commencement Confetti
… did double duty— nailing his Senior English Address during the Morning Exercises but also, literally, singing for his … Jobim (a treat for Fernando Henrique Cardoso, in lieu of the usual classical selection). During the Phi Beta Kappa … , somewhat surprisingly, sang “We Are…” by Ysaye Barnwell (of Sweet Honey in the Rock); its charming refrain is well …
Issue: July-August 2016
Adam Falk and Natalie Diaz at Phi Beta Kappa
… The orator and poet at the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises—the traditional, academic opening event of Harvard’s Commencement-week celebrations—will be Adam … Falk, a theoretical physicist, has served as president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 2018. He was …
Schooled in Life
… As the College celebrates its 375th anniversary, we asked members of this year’s twenty-fifth reunion class how their … become—and what Harvard could do to improve the education of undergraduates today and in the future. “Have Big Lives.” …
Issue: September-October 2011
From the Field to the Front Office
… you doing here?” That question ate at her during her year there—should she try to play internationally and earn a WNBA … she find a new career? Tuesday evening, Gelman—now CEO of Kraft Analytics Group—joined four other Harvard stars … in Israel. At HBS, Patriots owner Robert Kraft watched one of her presentations and hired her. Now, Gelman says she is …
Harvard Portrait: Tanya Smith
… “Teeth have rhythms inside them that are very precise, regular, and consistent, like rings in tree trunks,” says Tanya Smith, associate professor of human evolutionary biology. “And like tree rings, they …
Issue: September-October 2014
An “Enchanted Palace”
… in 1924, in a letter by Archibald Cary Coolidge, director of the Harvard University Library, who imagined an “enchanted … “a beautiful building…in which we store all our works of great rarity and value…[and] works dear to the …
Issue: March-April 2017
Kenneth C. Frazier and Joseph Y. Bae to Join Harvard Corporation
… Frazier J.D. ’78 and Joseph Y. Bae ’94 will become fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the senior governing board, the … is former chairman and CEO of biopharmaceutical enterprise Merck & Co., where he was initially hired as general …
John S. Rosenberg , Jonathan Shaw
No Sleepy Coastal Town
… Settled in 1623, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is among the oldest cities in the United States. Historic buildings … reason to visit this coastal city, especially in the dead of winter, is its thriving contemporary arts and cultural … the winter.” Home to more than 22,000 residents, the city offers a disproportionately high number of arts venues and …
Issue: January-February 2024
Treasurer Transition
… The University announced on May 28 that Paul J. Finnegan … ’75, M.B.A. ’82 (above left), will succeed James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70 (above right), as treasurer on July 1. The treasurer has wide responsibilities for overseeing …
Issue: July-August 2014
Honoring Alumni Interviewers
… This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective … S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71.) David Thomas ’68, A.M. ’73, J.D. ’79, of Greenwood Village, Colorado, has served on the schools …
Issue: September-October 2023