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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
Honoris Causa
… Four women and three men received honorary degrees during the graduation program on May 26 (including one in absentia, … Muyembe-Tamfum , microbiologist, general director of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Institut National pour la Recherche …
Issue: July-August 2022
Alumni Interviewers Honored
… This year’s Miller-Hunn Awards—the original award, which honored Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, now also honors retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni … prospective undergraduates. Michael R. Alde rete ’79, of Moraga, California, has served the San Francisco Bay Area …
Issue: September-October 2022
Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists
… Three Harvard alumni were among the nominees announced on Tuesday as finalists for the 2022 … A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation , which mixes memoir, travelogue, and literary … history, race, and justice that are at the heart not only of that region, but of the nation: “To be an American is to …
Little Boat, Unsalvaged
… Thwarts, chines, ribs mud-caked, this one's deadrise bow is lifted as if by gusts, whitecaps' scud and swat … schemed in side-yard sun. Where I live marshes fill with them, dull wanderers stoned by trash, the fog-eye of acid-mist. Mud flats, pocked, keep all half-sunk, half …
Issue: September-October 2004
Mexican Soul
… Claudia García ’05 arrived at Harvard with a clear sense of purpose. In her case, though, that purpose was a little … as much in her College application, sending in a video of herself performing with her high-school ensemble—García on violin, all of them in their embroidered trajes —and as the song ended, she …
Issue: May-June 2022
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
Harvard Professor James Hanken on the Amphibian Extinction Crisis
… The Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology is one of the oldest museums in the United States–but part of its …
Origin Stories
… Primus is often captivated by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ memorial minutes on the scholarly passions and personal crotchets of …
Issue: July-August 2023
Headliners
… Harvard will welcome a lot of high-wattage speakers to campus this graduation season, reflecting the unusual number of University events. Commencement proper, for the class of …
Issue: May-June 2022
Harvard Researchers Seek to Create Specialized Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
… Scientists at Harvard and the affiliated Children's Hospital Boston today announced … stem-cell lines for research. For more, see the news releases from the Harvard University Gazette and Children's Hospital . … …
Damage and Repair
… When Celia Pym ’01 was 28, her great uncle died, and her father, going through the old man’s things, found a sweater he thought she would like. Pym was just starting out as a professional artist, feeling her way toward a focus on … In some places, the wool had thinned to a fragile web of loops. “And as soon as I held it,” she says, “I could …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard’s Ties to Slavery
… in April and a conference a few days later , Harvard joined the long list of universities that have conducted public investigations … report lays out the findings and reparative recommendations of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of …
Issue: July-August 2022
Speaking Volumes
… A Houghton Library exhibition offers a selection of objects highlighting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean … Yenching and Houghton Libraries (September 5-December 19). They include a Japanese scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s …
Issue: September-October 2023
Building Bridges in Allston
… As ironworkers assembled the frame of the University’s science and engineering … “the set of leaders the world looks to” in technology enterprises. Read an in-depth account of the degree, its …
Issue: September-October 2017