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Harvard Alumni Day Debuts
… To the tune of bagpipes , crashing cymbals, and horns, … intermittently in Antarctica.” Despite the many current crises facing the globe, he said, “I am confident that we … all the time, in a constant weather of multiple concurrent crises, each as urgent as the next.…Suffice it to say that, …
Re-Wilding Harvard
… You might not recognize the front of Harvard’s Museum of Natural History if you haven’t seen it recently. The …
'60s Generation Confronts '90s Protest
… When David Illingworth ’71 and Allan Ryan went to college, the causes of the day were civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam … wage” for University employees. And the students who came of age in the 1960s find themselves on the inside of …
Documenting Climate Change Deception
… Between 1977 and 2003, ExxonMobil scientists, and the executives to whom they reported, not only knew that climate change was real, they produced some of the best projections and models of global warming that existed at the time, even as their …
Two Harvard Affiliates Share Chemistry Nobel
… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today conferred the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten … prize ). The trio were honored “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”—Sharpless …
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…”, …
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
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 …
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
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
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 …
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
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), …
Football: Harvard 38-Cornell 20
… The maturity of Jaden Craig took a giant step on Friday evening at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York. There, Harvard’s junior quarterback, spreading the ball to … also playing under a first-year head coach, former Penn offensive coordinator Dan Swanstrom, dropped to 1-3 overall …
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 …