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Attuned to Pianos
… sonata—sound different on a modern instrument than they would have on the pianos their composers knew and … door to the Frederick Historical Piano Collection, the nonprofit organization she and her husband, Edmund Michael … spanning centuries and generations. They bear the names of legendary makers: Graf, Bösendorfer, Streicher, Pleyel, …
Issue: March-April 2023
Immigrant Stories, in Song
… Tonight, a digital Broadway concert offers the first glimpse of what will become Lives in Limbo , the musical. The …
Brevia
… Would-Be Honorands Before COVID-19 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, Harvard announced that … would be Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013—perhaps the nation’s leading newspaper journalist during an era of traumatic change within the industry and of unprecedented …
Issue: May-June 2020
Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored
… Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, and retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective undergraduates. Glen Cheng ’93, of Hong Kong, has interviewed candidates there since 1994, …
Issue: November-December 2021
Open Book: Hiding in a Tick Mattress
… In 2015, while she was working on The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and … Responsibility (Harvard, 2018), Erin I. Kelly, Ph.D. ’95, professor of philosophy at Tufts, interviewed Winfred Rembert …
Issue: September-October 2021
Ben S. Bernanke ’75 Shares Economics Nobel
… B en S. Bernanke ’75, former chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, today … economics with two other scholars of banking and financial crises. The honor—formally, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in …
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
Educating Educators
… Bridget Terry Long had the good timing to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on July 1, 2018—the same day that the …
Issue: July-August 2019
New Semester, New Minister, New Questions
… Speaking at the first Morning Prayers service of the new semester, her … used the occasion to welcome Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer professor of Christian morals, as the new Pusey Minister of …
U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik Removed from IOP Advisory Committee
… Elise Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) has been removed from the senior advisory committee of the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Institute of Politics, HKS dean Doug Elmendorf wrote in an …
Brevia
… Giang T. Nguyen has been appointed executive director of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS), which provides … students and to faculty and staff members who choose it for their health benefits. A family-medicine practitioner, he … venture-capital firm for difficult-to-build enterprises (in fields like energy from fusion, which need lots of …
Issue: November-December 2019
A Second Chance, Seized
… women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith sat on the bleachers in Lavietes Pavilion, still dismayed by her … NCAAs. The Crimson drew a road matchup with the University of New Hampshire, the regular-season champion in the America … East Conference, on Friday night. Harvard made the most of that opportunity, defeating the Wildcats 69-56 to improve …
Harvard’s Governing Boards Refreshed
… It’s the changing of the University guard: as President Drew Faust conducts her … Accordingly, Penny S. Pritzker ’81 (former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and a past Harvard Overseer) and Carolyn A. …
Yesterday’s News
… 1921 Thirteen women, students at the School of Education, apply for tickets to the Yale Game. … are especially nervous have followed the advice of their physicians by resigning.” 1936 Historian Samuel …
Issue: November-December 2021
Commuting’s Impact on Creativity
… As america’s workplaces regroup after the pandemic, a team of researchers suggests that companies take a closer look at one of the potential drudgeries of office life: the commute. In …
Issue: September-October 2021