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Litigating Admissions
… In the course of a lawsuit initiated in 2014 alleging that … expose sharply contrasting views about the propriety of a private institution’s standards for composing its … data over a 10-year period, that Asian-Americans would comprise 43 percent of the annual incoming class (more than …
Issue: September-October 2018
Election Results 2023
… The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
Issue: July-August 2023
“Anyone Can Be an Activist”
… Across the political spectrum, Harvard alumni concerned about the state of U.S. democracy, their apprehensions later intensified by … The group works with its members to prevent election crises, promote reforms, and expand the number of government …
Freshly French
… to be very, very good—every single day.” And so they are. Rarely is a restaurant as seamless—from the spare, but warm, whiteness of its interior to the diamond-fine clarity of its French fare—as Lumière, Leviton’s fiefdom. …
Issue: January-February 2007
New Impressions
… to reach fresh audiences. Autumn is an ideal time to sample the city’s vibrant cultural life, as the sidewalks swell … students returning to campus and summer travelers shake off the sand. On Thursday, September 21, the MFA ( … with a Latinx Heritage Night, partnering with local nonprofits Amplify Latinx and Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción. …
Issue: September-October 2023
Commencement Confetti
… Affinities Affirmed There are now eight University-wide affinity group … post-pandemic downshifting has been punctuated by large layoffs at Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft…all the way to Zoom. Further evidence of softness in the …
Issue: July-August 2023
Byzantine Beauties
… people, and a civilization, who perished centuries ago? The jewelry and textiles they wore “are some of the most intimate objects to survive,” observes Elizabeth … understand immediately how they function. It closes the gap of time.” And gorgeously so, in “Ornament: Fragments of …
Issue: November-December 2019
Aiming for Excellence
… How do students prepare for an undergraduate education at the most selective institutions—and what kind of people are they when they get there? How do they choose … public school system, Warikoo (previously an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, now …
Issue: July-August 2022
Harvard’s NBA Champion
… For a couple of years now, the Harvard men’s basketball team and Denver Nuggets star … the College. (In fact, the seven-foot-tall center played professional basketball in his native Serbia before joining …
Penny Pritzker Gives $100 Million for New Economics Facility
… Penny Pritzker ’81, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2018, has made a $100-million … was established in 2018 to develop the commercial enterprise research campus there, with Glynn as CEO, Pritzker was …
Honoring Alumni Leaders
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) celebrates those who … “Carol” Dominguez, AMP ’12. As director and president of the Harvard Club of the Philippines, she has helped build the organization …
Issue: March-April 2021
Dance in Translation
… M.T.S. ’00, improvises dance, bharatanatyam comes out. The choreographer and dancer was trained in the South Indian … and winding gestures are unmistakable in her work, a part of how her body naturally moves. Her most recent production, The Conference of the Birds , based on the twelfth-century Persian Sufi …
Issue: July-August 2019
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith to Speak at Harvard Alumni Day
… Tracy K. Smith ’94, who last year joined Harvard as professor of English and of African and African American studies and the Wallach professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. …
Everyday Indigeneity
… Within a few shelves at Tozzer Library, the boundaries between academia and daily existence blur. Here, hundreds of ordinary items from 2000s Indigenous life—zines, comics, … games, and language learning tools—exist alongside some of the world’s oldest, most comprehensive anthropology and …
Issue: September-October 2023
Farewell
… When I took office in 2018, I thought I knew our University very well. I … I returned to Harvard to do some teaching and mentoring at the Graduate School of Education and the Kennedy School. I also served as a …
Issue: May-June 2023