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… Presidential Search As the search for the successor to President Lawrence S. Bacow … were disclosed on August 25. Archon Fung, McCormack professor of citizenship and self-government and director of the Ash …
Issue: November-December 2022
Kari Nadeau
… Nadeau spent a few years living on a houseboat where her father, a research scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, studied the polluted estuaries of the New Jersey shore. She doesn’t remember any … clinical outcome,” said Nadeau, who recently became chair of the department of environmental health at the Harvard T. …
Issue: July-August 2023
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 …
Is Harvard Campus Conversation Constrained?
… At Harvard, there are research areas that can’t be investigated, … that can’t be discussed in a classroom. So say a group of Harvard professors, now more than 120 strong, who have formed a …
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
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 Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
… brief presentations on subjects from infrastructural aesthetics to aliens, seven Harvard Horizons scholars shared … The students had been selected in what Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Dean Emma Dench described as a … seven winners, who spoke this Tuesday, received ten weeks of presentation coaching as part of this opportunity to …
Ethics and Human Cells
… been heavily involved in promoting regulatory oversight” of the use of human embryonic stem cells in research, says Insoo Hyun, …
Issue: January-February 2024
Enterprise Research Campus Underway
… Tishman Speyer , the developer Harvard selected to build its Enterprise Research Campus in Allston, announced on June 16 that … $750 million in financing to build the first, 9-acre phase of the development project. In a statement, the company said …
Postseason’s End
… trailed Columbia with just over a minute remaining in the Great Eight round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), when … and launched a three. But the shot missed and bounced out of bounds, and moments later, the Lions won 77-71. The loss …
Impatience Is a Virtue
… next week. She knows that future obligations exist, but they generally remain an abstract concept housed in her … her recurring role as on-air co-host, appearing on millions of Japanese screens, riffing on current events. Minutes … led to a unique career. She is a touring violinist, author of three books, university lecturer, and a weekly television …
Issue: July-August 2023
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
Post-COVID Learning Losses
… In education, the post-COVID “return to normal” has been anything but … the pressing educational gaps affecting children. Gale professor of education and economics Tom Kane, director of the … consequences for children,” Reardon said. “I wasn’t surprised, but I was just dismayed and struck by how large the …
The Happy Warrior Redux
… At a time when the nation is riven and familiar political categories have … vice president Hubert H. Humphrey and, yes, even his brand of liberalism, are enjoying a moment. Into the Bright … path to the 1948 Democratic Convention, where his advocacy of civil rights prompted the Dixiecrat walk-out (and …
Issue: March-April 2024
Gift Ideas from a Valentine's-Day Doubter
… website, headbutler.com , Kornbluth writes that he views the holiday as something "ginned up by merchants to get Americans to spend any discretionary dollars they haven't blown at Christmas." But if buy a gift you must, Kornbluth offers his picks for books, films, and music in his typical …