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"A Difficult and Compelling Pursuit"
… own niche in public-interest law. She heads her own nonprofit, the New Orleans-based A Fighting Chance ( … day he was exonerated after seven years in jail. Courtesy of A Fighting Chance While looking for jobs in …
Issue: March-April 2005
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 …
Community with Purpose
… working with writers and promoting books. But it was the urban world outside the office—the pocket parks and plazas where she spent her lunch … hours—that began to capture her imagination. “I took notice of which were vibrant and thronging with people and …
Issue: September-October 2022
Creative Vulnerability and Childish Joy
… Every Thursday evening of my first semester of medical school last fall, I commuted … non-graded course for introductory singers—brings together students from across the University. Our 20-person … and two friends from college, who had shown up as a surprise, held up a sign that said, “Sing it, Julie!” That I, a …
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
Harvard Alumni Day Debuts
… To the tune of bagpipes , crashing cymbals, and horns, … intermittently in Antarctica.” Despite the many current crises facing the globe, he said, “I am confident that we … all the time, in a constant weather of multiple concurrent crises, each as urgent as the next.…Suffice it to say that, …
Dinosaur Babies
… : Dinosaur Eggs and Babies , a new hands-on exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum, brings the prehistoric … creatures closer to life. Visitors get to see a variety of fossilized dinosaur eggs and nests collected from across … bowling-ball-sized egg from Argentina, a cluster of ornithopod eggs laid from China, and, also from China, …
Issue: May-June 2024
Re-Wilding Harvard
… You might not recognize the front of Harvard’s Museum of Natural History if you haven’t seen it recently. The …
“A Choice Not to Deal with Original Sin”
… General Loretta Lynch ’81, J.D. ’84, said that justice—the fight for freedom—is something each generation must … to the day, George Floyd had “lost his life under the knee of a uniformed Minneapolis police officer. It was a shocking crime,” she said, “a senseless …
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
Documenting Climate Change Deception
… Between 1977 and 2003, ExxonMobil scientists, and the executives to whom they reported, not only knew that climate change was real, they produced some of the best projections and models of global warming that existed at the time, even as their …
Harvard’s Social Media Influencers
… she just responded to a trend. Every year, thousands of high-school students post “reaction videos” of their getting accepted, waitlisted, or rejected from …
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
HAA Honors Three Alumni for Service
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has recognized three … (The actual medal presentation is typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement Day; as announced last December, that …
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