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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 …
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 …
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
Cambridge Scholars
… scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2006-2007 academic year. History concentrator Alexander Bevilacqua, of Milan, Italy, and Leverett House, will be the Lieutenant … College; applied mathematics concentrator Matthew Smith, of Pasadena, California, and Leverett House, is the Governor …
Issue: July-August 2007
Search Sources
… through which to hear faculty and student ideas and views, the Corporation-Overseer committee searching for a permanent … Lawrence H. Summers announced on May 12 the membership of two advisory groups (see “ Precedent-Setting Presidential … The faculty group is chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba. Other members, and their affiliations, …
Issue: July-August 2006
Harvard Kennedy School
… Events begin with the Class of 2010 picnic, on Monday, May 24, from 4 to 7 p.m. , in the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) courtyard. The 2010 Class …
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
Closing the Gap
… While much of the country struggles to recover from learning losses wrought by the pandemic, Alabama seems to be doing relatively well: … But the state’s overall recovery hides disparities. Many of Alabama’s poorest districts continue to lag behind 2019 …
Cambridge Scholars
… scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2005-2006 academic year. Physics concentrator Rebecca Walsh Dell, of Piedmont, California, and Mather House, will be the … at Trinity College. Literature concentrator Kevin Holden, of Middletown, Rhode Island, and Winthrop House, is the new …
Issue: July-August 2005
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
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
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 …
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 …
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
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