Search
Brevia
… Appointments. Erika Lee has been appointed Bae Family professor of history, effective next July, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof … of history (but both will be on leave for a year from the date of their appointments)—the second and third …
Issue: September-October 2022
Diversity Director
… development and diversity. She will direct implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Women Faculty and the Task Force on …
Issue: September-October 2005
Community with Purpose
… working with writers and promoting books. But it was the urban world outside the office—the pocket parks and plazas where she spent her lunch … hours—that began to capture her imagination. “I took notice of which were vibrant and thronging with people and …
Issue: September-October 2022
Athletes' Adviser
… helping her athlete friends navigate Harvard's network of academic-support organizations. Now, a decade after … director for student-athlete services, she works with the school's 650 varsity athletes to ensure that each one is … has long prided itself on the superior academic achievement of its athletes and Noel's program is the cornerstone of …
Issue: May-June 2003
Creative Vulnerability and Childish Joy
… Every Thursday evening of my first semester of medical school last fall, I commuted … non-graded course for introductory singers—brings together students from across the University. Our 20-person … and two friends from college, who had shown up as a surprise, held up a sign that said, “Sing it, Julie!” That I, a …
Benjamin Franklin’s Retirement and Reinvention
… and seventy years ago this month, aged 42 and weeks from the midpoint of his long life, Benjamin Franklin did something highly … pages in length, but it immediately changed the trajectory of Franklin’s life and career. Not coincidentally, later …
Harvard Alumni Day Debuts
… To the tune of bagpipes , crashing cymbals, and horns, … intermittently in Antarctica.” Despite the many current crises facing the globe, he said, “I am confident that we … all the time, in a constant weather of multiple concurrent crises, each as urgent as the next.…Suffice it to say that, …
“A Choice Not to Deal with Original Sin”
… General Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84, said that justice—the fight for freedom—is something each generation must … to the day, George Floyd had “lost his life under the knee of a uniformed Minneapolis police officer. It was a shocking crime,” she said, “a senseless …
Re-Wilding Harvard
… You might not recognize the front of Harvard’s Museum of Natural History if you haven’t seen it recently. The …
Deep Dig
… Mulligan and His Steam Shovel in 1939, to draft a sequel. The hole, shown in early summer, will accommodate two-thirds of the 137,000-square-foot Laboratory for Interface Science … used to hold up McKay Laboratory (on the left), where much of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences is …
Issue: September-October 2005
Documenting Climate Change Deception
… Between 1977 and 2003, ExxonMobil scientists, and the executives to whom they reported, not only knew that climate change was real, they produced some of the best projections and models of global warming that existed at the time, even as their …
Elena Rodriguez Steps Up
… In early December, the Harvard women’s basketball team was leading Michigan by one point at the end of the first quarter, when the Crimson’s star point guard … momentum against a marquee opponent. But toward the middle of the second quarter, with Harvard ahead 28-20, Turner hurt …
HAA Names Philip Lovejoy Executive Director
… Philip W. Lovejoy, deputy executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), has been appointed … class reports, reunions, and more. Reardon, who began his professional Harvard career in 1965—successively serving as …
Three Cheers
… We warmly welcome a bumper crop of new colleagues who joined Harvard Magazine this autumn. … and strategist—became publisher on November 6. A veteran of Boston Globe Media for more than a dozen years, and of … marketing), Vinard earned her B.S. in journalism at Northeastern University in 2002 and her M.B.A. from the …
Issue: January-February 2024
Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel
… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten … prize ). The trio were honored “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”—Sharpless …