Search
Education School Dean Bridget Terry Long to Step Down
… Terry Long announced today that she will step down as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at the end of this academic year. She …
Harvard Sanctions Professor Roland Fryer Severely
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Claudine Gay today notified Lee professor of economics and professor of education Roland G. Fryer Jr. and the economics department that Fryer has been placed on …
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
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
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 …
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 …
'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 …
In This Issue
… • Education Executive • Harvard Portrait • Harvard by the Numbers • Sweeping Change for Science • Map Miscreant • … to Institutions" • A Living Political Monument • Brevia • Therapeutic Cloning Reseach Approved • The Undergraduate • Sports • Alumni Not a Level Playing …
Issue: September-October 2006
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
Litchfield’s Legal Eagles
… The bright young men who crammed into the one-room … by lawyer and pioneering educator Tapping Reeve, ultimately offered a rigorous 18-month course of study in place of the traditional English system of …
Issue: March-April 2023
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
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 …
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 …
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 …