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Principled and Pragmatic Counterterrorism
… not abandon our democratic values, says Louise Richardson, the departing executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (she becomes principal of the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, in January). …
Issue: January-February 2009
Biddle: Everyday Family Life
… Geoffrey Biddle writes: These pictures were taken during my family’s everyday life in 2013—on the way to school; a visit to the doctor’s office; experiencing the subway in New York City (we live in …
Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced
… The second annual Harvard Alumni Day, which takes place on … will feature guest speaker Mary Louise Kelly ’93, co-host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Kelly’s … Association, the midday fete will also feature recognition of the 2023 Harvard Medalists, remarks by President Larry …
Irene Soto Marín
… Irene Soto Marín once asked her Sunday school teachers the modern-day value of Judas’s bounty for betraying Jesus. Her question—and her … about the past—launched her career as an economic historian of Roman Egypt. When she was 16, her family moved to New …
Issue: September-October 2023
Picking Team Players
… In professional settings, teamwork is crucial. Whether in healthcare or higher education, in startups, science … franchises, organizations that maximize the effectiveness of collaborative efforts enjoy greater success. But what …
Issue: September-October 2023
Presidents’ Paths
… a deficit rarely make it up later. Third is what he calls the ability to “look over the intellectual horizon”: to suss … them. All well and good. But how do prospective presidents of a place like this end up on the path that delivers them … on. And it’s where I found what I wanted to do….” No surprise, “my becoming an academic was not what my parents had …
Issue: September-October 2023
Forging a New Bond
… to build an adult relationship with your parents. Leave the past behind. Many people cling to old complaints about … adulthood, says Susan Newman, a psychologist and author of Nobody's Baby Now. The twenties are the perfect time to … calmly but firmly, as one adult to another — to lay off. Be specific, Newman advises: "Say, 'Stop telling me …
Issue: March-April 2004
Radcliffe Parole Reform Panel Features Rapper
… Five years after his high-profile release from prison, Grammy-nominated rapper Meek Mill spoke at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute about reforming the American parole system. Mill joined three other formerly incarcerated individuals who spoke to a crowd of Harvard students, community organizers, former prisoners, …
Who’s News
… Pfoho Leaders Stanton professor of the First Amendment Erica Chenoweth and lecturer in public … prepare to pursue new challenges, often in social enterprise (see “Advancing Leadership,” March-April 2014, page …
Issue: July-August 2023
Report on Harvard University Police Department Released
… Drew Faust last year to review "how best to assure the strongest possible relations and mutual understanding" between the Harvard University Police Department and the University's "highly diverse community" has issued its …
Campus Conversations on Speech
… At Harvard , there are research areas that can’t be investigated, … that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So says a group of more than 120 Harvard faculty members, who have formed a … respond to perceived assaults on free inquiry and a climate of eroded trust that they say stifle dissent. The group went …
Issue: September-October 2023
Quantum SCIENCE Quarters
… Interior demolition work proceeded during the summer at 60 Oxford Street, formerly a Harvard computer facility, as it is completely renovated into the new home for the quantum science and engineering doctoral program, …
Issue: September-October 2022
Michelle Yeoh’s Three Tips for Success
… Against the backdrop of Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Langdell Hall—where the HLS class of 2023 spent countless hours studying—Academy Award-winning …
Shakespeare’s Uncanny Presence
… Shakespeare in Bloomsbury (Yale, $35) on a convivial note. The latest inventive work by Marjorie Garber, Kenan research professor of English and of visual and environmental studies, explores …
Issue: November-December 2023
Football: Harvard 38-Cornell 20
… The maturity of Jaden Craig took a giant step on Friday evening at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. There, Harvard’s junior quarterback, spreading the ball to … also playing under a first-year head coach, former Penn offensive coordinator Dan Swanstrom, dropped to 1-3 overall …