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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
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
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
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
Presidential Priorities
… President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and priorities for the academic year... President Lawrence H. Summers distributed a letter to the Harvard community setting forth key issues and …
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 …
Something from Nothing
… In 2019, artist Susan Bin ’16 spent three months in front of what she called “the worst easel in the world” sitting on “the worst chair” … sat for portraits and she swiftly cut their likenesses out of paper. Despite the monotony, she found magic. “It’s not …
Issue: July-August 2023
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
Sarah Karmon to Lead Alumni Association
… S arah C. Karmon, who has been deputy executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) since 2018, will become executive director and associate vice president of alumni affairs and development, effective in January. She …
Harvard Confers 11 Undergraduate Degrees
… has conferred degrees on 11 undergraduates who were denied their diplomas on May 23 because they were suspended or … violating University standards pertaining to the statement of rights and responsibilities for actions related to the … discipline, so the exact violations and penalties are not officially disclosed). Those penalties and subsequent …
Restored to Nature
… M.L.A. ’92. “Every site, every neighborhood, has a depth of history that we have to listen to.” This is particularly true of a project she’s been working on for almost three years, a … in Detroit, surrounding a century-old train station, which the Ford Motor Company recently bought and is transforming …
Issue: January-February 2023
Kari Nadeau
… Nadeau spent a few years living on a houseboat where her father, a research scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, studied the polluted estuaries of the New Jersey shore. She doesn’t remember any … clinical outcome,” said Nadeau, who recently became chair of the department of environmental health at the Harvard T. …
Issue: July-August 2023
In Service
… When Debby Smullyan ’72 began writing obituaries for the magazine in 1993, she didn’t know at first if the job … old. Now a grandmother, Debby calls herself a “connoisseur of obituaries” and says the work long ago “settled into her … post with this issue, having served as the careful steward of thousands of alumni obituaries over the course of three …
Issue: July-August 2023
Harvard Students Protest Supreme Court Ruling
… Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court banned race-conscious affirmative … Harvard, more than 100 students, alumni, and members of the public united in opposition to the decision, gathered … attendees to sign table-length posters in support of the protest. Between chants of “Diversity is under …
Birthday Greetings
… a 400th (likely to be a real and virtual humdinger)—but neither is it chopped liver. To have survived since 1636 is no … Given that issue’s enduring value as an exploration of the events and people who had made the University what it … the magazine bimonthly today—plus the countless readers of harvardmagazine.com worldwide. Second, we have focused …
Issue: September-October 2011