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Farewell
… When I took office in 2018, I thought I knew our University very well. I … I returned to Harvard to do some teaching and mentoring at the Graduate School of Education and the Kennedy School. I also served as a …
Issue: May-June 2023
Aiming for Excellence
… How do students prepare for an undergraduate education at the most selective institutions—and what kind of people are they when they get there? How do they choose … public school system, Warikoo (previously an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, now …
Issue: July-August 2022
Litigating Admissions
… In the course of a lawsuit initiated in 2014 alleging that … expose sharply contrasting views about the propriety of a private institution’s standards for composing its … data over a 10-year period, that Asian-Americans would comprise 43 percent of the annual incoming class (more than …
Issue: September-October 2018
Line by Line
… He is the opposite of a child prodigy—a writer who has reached his … before sitting down to render them into English often surprises his readers. He had only a passing acquaintance with …
Issue: May-June 2015
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to Speak at Harvard Alumni Day
… Tracy K. Smith ’94, who last year joined Harvard as professor of English and of African and African American studies and the Wallach professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. …
Penny Pritzker Gives $100 Million for New Economics Facility
… Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has made a $100-million … was established in 2018 to develop the commercial enterprise research campus there, with Glynn as CEO, Pritzker was …
President Bacow‘s Alumni Day Speech
… generous introduction—and for your steadfast leadership of the Harvard Alumni Association. We appreciate all you have … two years, nothing comes close to being here—at the heart of our campus—and seeing all of you in person. It is so …
Charades with Chutzpah
… live on in Widener Library’s Judaica Collection as relics of a bygone—but not yet dormant—art form. Beginning in the mid-1800s, European children and their bubbes headed to … At the time, Eastern Europe had a millennia-old community of Yiddish-speaking Jews, and they wanted to act in their …
Issue: July-August 2023
Byzantine Beauties
… people, and a civilization, who perished centuries ago? The jewelry and textiles they wore “are some of the most intimate objects to survive,” observes Elizabeth … understand immediately how they function. It closes the gap of time.” And gorgeously so, in “Ornament: Fragments of …
Issue: November-December 2019
Freshly French
… to be very, very good—every single day.” And so they are. Rarely is a restaurant as seamless—from the spare, but warm, whiteness of its interior to the diamond-fine clarity of its French fare—as Lumière, Leviton’s fiefdom. …
Issue: January-February 2007
Making Charitable Giving More Competent
… that positive emotions drive charitable giving, and nonprofits rely on this impulse to help others when they solicit donations. But what if some of these same warm feelings actually prevent donors from …
Issue: May-June 2023
Honoring Alumni Leaders
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) celebrates those who … “Carol” Dominguez, AMP ’12. As director and president of the Harvard Club of the Philippines, she has helped build the organization …
Issue: March-April 2021
Vote Now
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own …
Issue: May-June 2023
Harvard Previews Future Building Plans in Allston
… Harvard previewed its plans for the next decade of construction on its 184-acre Allston … processes will soon begin for the second phase of the Enterprise Research Campus , a commercial development ( the first …
Dance in Translation
… M.T.S. ’00, improvises dance, bharatanatyam comes out. The choreographer and dancer was trained in the South Indian … and winding gestures are unmistakable in her work, a part of how her body naturally moves. Her most recent production, The Conference of the Birds , based on the twelfth-century Persian Sufi …
Issue: July-August 2019