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Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
… Three Harvard alumni were among the nominees announced on Tuesday as finalists for the 2022 … A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation , which mixes memoir, travelogue, and literary … history, race, and justice that are at the heart not only of that region, but of the nation: “To be an American is to …
Conferring Degrees, 2020
… As the coronavirus pandemic spread, Harvard announced on March … ). The annual weeklong celebration of Harvard’s students and its worldwide community draws tens of thousands of people to campus—including a crowd, …
Issue: May-June 2020
“A Prayer for Our Country”
… In the first of a six-month series of public conversations focused on storytelling and public … for a healthier world,” as Michelle Williams, dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, phrased …
Three Cheers
… We warmly welcome a bumper crop of new colleagues who joined Harvard Magazine this autumn. … and strategist—became publisher on November 6. A veteran of Boston Globe Media for more than a dozen years, and of … marketing), Vinard earned her B.S. in journalism at Northeastern University in 2002 and her M.B.A. from the …
Issue: January-February 2024
Snuffing Flames with Electricity
… Three years ago , the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) laid … and ground vehicles, continues to be a major cause of material destruction and loss of warfighter life,” noted the agency in its announcement. …
Issue: July-August 2011
Ban Ki-Moon HKS Class Day Speech
… you for your warm introduction. Dr. Doug Elmendorf, dean of Harvard Kennedy School, distinguished professors of Harvard Kennedy School, dear Harvard Kennedy … begin my remarks by conveying my warmest congratulations to the Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2023. Exactly 39 years …
Mexican Soul
… Claudia García ’05 arrived at Harvard with a clear sense of purpose. In her case, though, that purpose was a little … as much in her College application, sending in a video of herself performing with her high-school ensemble—García on violin, all of them in their embroidered trajes —and as the song ended, she …
Issue: May-June 2022
Binational Physician
… to her native Sri Lanka, she remembered Interplast, the nonprofit a fellow physician had told her about. The … willing to make the necessary contacts, and rally a team of physicians, it would lend her its support. That was in …
Issue: January-February 2004
Headliners
… Harvard will welcome a lot of high-wattage speakers to campus this graduation season, reflecting the unusual number of University events. Commencement proper, for the class of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Josiah Meadows ’23 Latin Salutatory
… The Value of a Harvard Education Josiah Meadows ’23, Latin … præses designata, socii inspectoresque honoratissimi, professores tutoresque doctissimi, condiscipuli sodalesque … fortè correpserint, profectò inter se murmurant, “What in the world does this mean?” Hoc quadriennio felicitèr …
Jameela Pedicini Named First HMC VP For Sustainable Investing
… partnerships related to ESG investing, and on issues of interest emerging on Harvard’s campus,” said Kathryn Murtagh, managing director and chief compliance officer at HMC , in a press release. The appointment was made as the University is taking a …
Damage and Repair
… When Celia Pym ’01 was 28, her great uncle died, and her father, going through the old man’s things, found a sweater he thought she would like. Pym was just starting out as a professional artist, feeling her way toward a focus on … In some places, the wool had thinned to a fragile web of loops. “And as soon as I held it,” she says, “I could …
Issue: January-February 2022
Debating Gender
… comments last January on women’s interests and aptitudes as they might affect careers in academic science, two Harvard … experts debated the issues on April 22. A video recording of the lively “conversation” on “The Science of Gender and Science,” between Johnstone Family professor …
Issue: July-August 2005
Harvard’s Ties to Slavery
… in April and a conference a few days later , Harvard joined the long list of universities that have conducted public investigations … report lays out the findings and reparative recommendations of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of …
Issue: July-August 2022
Line by Line
… He is the opposite of a child prodigy—a writer who has reached his … before sitting down to render them into English often surprises his readers. He had only a passing acquaintance with …
Issue: May-June 2015