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Staying Steady
… goalkeeper Ellie Shahbo ’22 [’23] and you’ll find a flurry of improbable athletic feats: a fully extended back-handed … to clinch a win over Princeton, a diving stop to shut out the University of New Hampshire, three straight … as a high-school junior. Coach van Herwaarden was surprised that a recruit with such effortless technical mastery …
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
Straight Lines and Odd Angles
… but once you draw a line, you know, it tends to have a mind of its own,” says painter Judith Seligson ’72. She’s standing in the living room of her Manhattan apartment, looking at an installation of …
Issue: November-December 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
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
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 …
Apply for a Fellowship
… Harvard Magazine offers two fellowships to current undergraduates who are … or juniors in Harvard College. LEDECKY FELLOWSHIPS THE BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP … by Jonathan J. Ledecky ’79, M.B.A. ’83, and named in honor of his mother, enables the magazine to appoint two …
Three New University Professors
… The three of them around a table would make quite a dinner party: a … how crime, punishment, and inequality alter the course of people’s lives. All three—molecular biologist Catherine …
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
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
“This global, diverse, vibrant community”
… II ’06 still found time as an undergraduate to perfect the “Flying Death Necklace.” The stunt, performed in the … frankly,” he says, “our society has fallen into the trap of dehumanizing each other, and there’s this rampant … we are able to talk to one another as humans, regardless of background, experiences, and views.” Moore points to …
Issue: September-October 2023
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 …
#MeToo Meets Mt. Olympus
… When audience members walk into the American Repertory Theater’s new production, The Half-God of Rainfall , they see a beautiful mural. In the center is the silhouette of a young boy shooting a basketball. No Jerry West , the …
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 …
“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 …