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Admissions Lawsuit, Round Two
… Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston heard oral … while our country is currently grappling with the dual crises of police violence and the COVID-19 pandemic.” Earlier …
Catfish, Not Salmon
… First poor Southern boy with no formal education or career ambitions, then … lived what one commentator calls a "pixilated wonderland of a life." He managed to be a ubiquitous presence in the … café society in Paris in the '50s, and in the world of cinema in Rome in the '60s. He was in at the start of the …
Issue: March-April 2002
Fighting West Nile
… brew he uses to attract female mosquitoes. He prepares the infusion according to a simple recipe. Add hay, with perhaps a touch of fecal matter, to a 55-gallon, water-filled barrel fitted … ready to use. Reiter, a scientist with the dengue branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) in …
Issue: November-December 2001
Harvard’s Commercial Campus Comes into Focus
… During three meetings of the Harvard Allston Task Force in July, Harvard development … vision of its plans for the first phase of its Enterprise Research Campus (ERC). Those meetings preceded a July …
Crystal Balls
… They were prepared. Alexandra Petri ’10, a columnist for … on “A New Foundation for American Greatness” (the title of the first Trump budget) noted that the lengthy document … was widely criticized for cutting “needed programs in favor of increasing military spending by leaps and bounds.” Petri …
Issue: September-October 2020
New Life for Old Instruments
… "Little known and little used," the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will become, in the expectations of its new curator, Sara Schechner '79, Ph.D. '82, the heart …
Harvard Basketball Star Noah Kirkwood’s Mid-Season Pivot
… In the first half of the men’s basketball team’s November game against MIT, Noah Kirkwood ’22 leapt into the air and swatted a shot off the backboard. Then his defense turned to offense: …
Undergraduate Education Agendas
… I. Gen Ed in the Offing When she became dean of undergraduate education last July 1, Amanda Claybaugh, … Ironically, the biggest challenge to acceptance has arisen from students’ decade-long stampede into the more …
Issue: March-April 2019
An Arts Advance
… President Drew Faust and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith have … initiative to develop an undergraduate concentration in theater, dance, and media. The proposal must undergo the … FAS campaign literature on “Faculty and Our Scholarly Enterprise” (some $600 million within the overall $2.5-billion …
College Announces New Public-Service Leadership
… Continuing an effort to enhance the role of public service in students’ lives, Harvard … College dean Rakesh Khurana today announced that Warren professor of the history of American education Julie Reuben …
Caroline Engelmayer’s 2020/2021 Address: Iter Perpetuum
… Praeses Bacow, decani notissimi, professores doctissimi, familiae honoratissimae, hospites … omnes. mihi magno honori est apud vos in hoc foro, quod Theatrum Tercentenarium appellamus, verba proferre etiamsi in lingua (eheu) plurimis obscura. …
Laying Out
… On the volleyball court, Sandra Zeng ’21 lives by one rule: … one direction, even slightly, a whack toward that side of the court is likely. Zeng can’t “cheat” too soon, though. … can easily pop it to the other side, leaving Zeng way out of position. No matter how well Zeng judges a hitter’s …
Issue: January-February 2021
News Briefs
… Dean Duo As the Harvard presidency transitions from Drew Faust to … announced late in spring term. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Paul professor of constitutional law and professor of history, has been …
Issue: July-August 2018
Spartan Means, Splendid Spaces
… In the summer of 1991, as a new North Carolina State University … concrete over rebars at Arcosanti, a planned community in the Arizona desert designed by the celebrated architect … “It was a hippie-throwback place,” she recalls. “Living off the land in a progressive, communal atmosphere. A …
Issue: November-December 2010
Where Teachers Thrive, Students Do
… Beginning in 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded a $575-million … dismissing ineffective ones,” writes Murphy research professor of education Susan Moore Johnson in her new book, Where …
Issue: November-December 2019