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Harvard’s Social Media Influencers
… she just responded to a trend. Every year, thousands of high-school students post “reaction videos” of their getting accepted, waitlisted, or rejected from …
Issue: May-June 2022
A Medical School Gift for Translational Research
… from longtime benefactor Ernesto Bertarelli, M.B.A. ’93. The donation will be used to reconfigure the infrastructure and layout of Building C, the last unnamed structure among the five … research and education that moves biomedical science out of the lab and into practice for the benefit of patients), …
HAA Honors Three Alumni for Service
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has recognized three … (The actual medal presentation is typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement Day; as announced last December, that …
Leaning into Winter
… gazing across parklands and a pedestrian path that skirts the lake, it’s hard to imagine that the land was once packed … then-mayor Bernie Sanders) that would turn the small city of into a regularly touted “most livable” destination and a … runs, Nordic ski trails, and night skiing. But don’t be surprised to see folks out on the mountainside also trekking …
Issue: November-December 2022
Five Questions with Ashton Keen
… inspiration and practice. What’s your favorite part of making pottery? “My favorite part is probably throwing and then altering a form. So, you throw it on the wheel, and … to fit the way that I want it to fit. I love the challenge of making something come to fruition—not finishing it, not …
Using Cancer to Kill Cancer
… Scientists dream of finding a cure for glioblastoma, a brutally aggressive type of brain tumor; few patients survive longer than 18 months after diagnosis. But preclinical research in the lab of professor of neurosurgery Khalid Shah could …
Issue: May-June 2023
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Addresses Harvard Law School
… U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) class of 2012 at their Class Day ceremonies on May 23. “But now…”, …
Brevia
… but this fully electric bus, in its new Harvard livery, is the first of four to enter Campus Services’ fleet. Replacing … and run on a 450 kWh battery. A Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection grant program funded the …
Issue: November-December 2021
Speaking Volumes
… A Houghton Library exhibition offers a selection of objects highlighting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean … Yenching and Houghton Libraries (September 5-December 19). They include a Japanese scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s …
Issue: September-October 2023
Origin Stories
… Primus is often captivated by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ memorial minutes on the scholarly passions and personal crotchets of …
Issue: July-August 2023
Evelynn M. Hammonds
… earned a master's degree in physics from MIT, and then in 1980 began a five-year sojourn as a software engineer in the corporate world. She didn't like it. Evelynn Hammonds was setting up computer systems in offices and explaining to secretaries and executives that …
Issue: January-February 2003
Maia Sandu at Kennedy School Class Day
… The war in Ukraine loomed over the Class Day celebrations at … delivered by Maia Sandu, M.C./M.P.A. ’10 , president of the Republic of Moldova, a small nation that borders Ukraine to the …
At 100, Widener Opens Its Arms Wider
… When Eleanor Elkins Widener witnessed the grand opening of a library that she funded to … by its open-stack system. One can encounter pleasant surprises and new fields of knowledge simply by aimlessly …
Jacinda Ardern to Speak at Harvard Commencement
… prime minister Jacinda Ardern , making a planned trip to the United States, will be the featured guest speaker at Harvard’s 2022 Commencement exercises on the morning of May 26. The news, officially released by the University today, inadvertently …
Penny Pritzker Elected Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow
… Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has been elected senior … , which is leading development of the commercial Enterprise Research Campus , across Western Avenue from Harvard …