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President Bacow‘s Alumni Day Speech
… generous introduction—and for your steadfast leadership of the Harvard Alumni Association. We appreciate all you have … two years, nothing comes close to being here—at the heart of our campus—and seeing all of you in person. It is so …
Honoris Causa
… degrees on May 25. Provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Lawrence … Adm. Michael G. Mullen, Ret., the seventeenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving under both Presidents George H. W. Bush …
Issue: July-August 2023
Finding Voices
… Marilyn Booth ’77 is one of the world’s most prolific translators of Arabic fiction into English. For nearly four decades, she …
Issue: May-June 2021
A Beloved Bengali Poet in Translation
… Nandana dev sen ’91 had always been her mother’s translator. One of her sharpest—and sweetest—memories from college is … Radcliffe Institute the next day. Nandana remembers the two of them drinking hot chocolate and haggling over words deep …
Issue: September-October 2021
Creative Exposure
… Tension crackled through the audience, which was clumped in a circle in the Frankfurt Conference Center. At the center of the group, Lena Chen ’09, an artist and writer, paced … person to the bed, before inviting him or her to pick one of the several notebooks fanned out in a semi-circle on the …
Issue: January-February 2020
Martial Artist
… Shortly after Liz Pennell '79 divorced in 1991, her son (then five years old) told her, "I'm the man of the house now, Mom--I need to learn karate!" He was … working in Harvard's computer sciences department and saw professors handing out lecture notes before each class. "I …
Icy Pinnacle
… She is not just another female Chinese-American Olympic hockey star. Julie Chu … a two-time Olympic medalist in ice hockey and a member of the U.S. national team since 2000, has won this year’s … Silverman / DSPics.com Julie Chu, top scorer in the history of NCAA women's hockey This season, she was chosen as Ivy …
Issue: May-June 2007
A Call for Precision
… On January 21 , 2017, millions of people gathered across the country for the Women’s March—at that … protest in American history. Amid disputes about the number of participants, Jeremy Pressman, a professor at the …
Making Charitable Giving More Competent
… that positive emotions drive charitable giving, and nonprofits rely on this impulse to help others when they solicit donations. But what if some of these same warm feelings actually prevent donors from …
Issue: May-June 2023
Brevia
… appointed Harvard’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer, effective August 1. She had been assistant vice provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was also … the huge University-owned acreage beyond the initial Enterprise Research Campus along Western Avenue (see “ Allston …
Issue: September-October 2020
Charades with Chutzpah
… live on in Widener Library’s Judaica Collection as relics of a bygone—but not yet dormant—art form. Beginning in the mid-1800s, European children and their bubbes headed to … At the time, Eastern Europe had a millennia-old community of Yiddish-speaking Jews, and they wanted to act in their …
Issue: July-August 2023
Michelle A. Williams Appointed Harvard Public Health Dean
… Michelle A. Williams has been appointed dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (SPH), filling … use, and diet-related problems) Poverty and humanitarian crises (from war-caused population displacements to natural …
Vote Now
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2023 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) and the HAA’s own …
Issue: May-June 2023
Two Harvardians Named Marshall Scholars
… The 2013 class of Marshall Scholars includes Aditya Balasubramanian ’12 (’13), of Leverett House and Bethesda, Maryland, and Alex Palmer ’12, a former Quincy House …
Education School Dean Bridget Terry Long to Step Down
… Terry Long announced today that she will step down as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at the end of this academic year. She …