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Harvard Cambridge Scholars
… Four members of the College class of 2023 have won Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2023-24 academic year. Meredith Johns, of Winthrop …
Issue: July-August 2023
A Beloved Bengali Poet in Translation
… Nandana dev sen ’91 had always been her mother’s translator. One of her sharpest—and sweetest—memories from college is … Radcliffe Institute the next day. Nandana remembers the two of them drinking hot chocolate and haggling over words deep …
Issue: September-October 2021
Finding Voices
… Marilyn Booth ’77 is one of the world’s most prolific translators of Arabic fiction into English. For nearly four decades, she …
Issue: May-June 2021
Creative Exposure
… Tension crackled through the audience, which was clumped in a circle in the Frankfurt Conference Center. At the center of the group, Lena Chen ’09, an artist and writer, paced … person to the bed, before inviting him or her to pick one of the several notebooks fanned out in a semi-circle on the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Permafrost Fare
… as a favorite pasta salad might be, it tastes about the same whether made in Arkansas, Nevada, or Maine, jokes Marylène Altieri, Schlesinger Library curator of books and printed materials. A recipe for soured seal … Her simple instructions are followed by a direct appraisal of the outcome. “Most of the boys and girls don’t like it, …
Issue: September-October 2022
Martial Artist
… Shortly after Liz Pennell '79 divorced in 1991, her son (then five years old) told her, "I'm the man of the house now, Mom--I need to learn karate!" He was … working in Harvard's computer sciences department and saw professors handing out lecture notes before each class. "I …
Icy Pinnacle
… She is not just another female Chinese-American Olympic hockey star. Julie Chu … a two-time Olympic medalist in ice hockey and a member of the U.S. national team since 2000, has won this year’s … Silverman / DSPics.com Julie Chu, top scorer in the history of NCAA women's hockey This season, she was chosen as Ivy …
Issue: May-June 2007
Brevia
… appointed Harvard’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer, effective August 1. She had been assistant vice provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was also … the huge University-owned acreage beyond the initial Enterprise Research Campus along Western Avenue (see “ Allston …
Issue: September-October 2020
Comedy with a Conscience
… TV experience, Jimmy Tingle did something that hardly any of his comedic colleagues would have opted for—or even, … to Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). “I’d performed at lots of fundraisers for nonprofit, social, and political causes,” … into public service.” At his commencement, Tingle delivered the Graduate English Address , capping the experience of …
Issue: May-June 2023
News Briefs
… Amherst College announced in October that it will end the alumni preference in its admissions decisions. “[C]hildren of alumni who are academically well-qualified” make up about 11 percent of each class now, it said, but “Going forward, legacy …
Issue: January-February 2022
Michelle A. Williams Appointed Harvard Public Health Dean
… Michelle A. Williams has been appointed dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (SPH), filling … use, and diet-related problems) Poverty and humanitarian crises (from war-caused population displacements to natural …
Life After Brain Injury
… ill, suddenly fumbling over her words during a meeting and then fading in and out of consciousness as friends rushed her home and her husband … fever hovered between 101 and 103 degrees. When, on day 10 of her coma, her husband agreed to let doctors wean Gold off …
Committee Recommends a More Transparent Tenure Process
… In 2020 , fifteen years after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) adopted the current form of its formal tenure procedures, FAS dean Claudine Gay …
Learners, Grizzled and Downy
… William Randall ’72 had an ambivalent relationship to the College. “Harvard,” he wrote some decades ago, “haunts … written about his own path to Cambridge, from the village of Harvey Station, in New Brunswick, Canada, where he grew … it, changed in ways he hardly expected. Those are the kinds of reunion experiences that are never fully accessible to …
Issue: September-October 2022
Two Harvardians Named Marshall Scholars
… The 2013 class of Marshall Scholars includes Aditya Balasubramanian ’12 (’13), of Leverett House and Bethesda, Maryland, and Alex Palmer ’12, a former Quincy House …