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“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 …
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
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
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
Ban Ki-Moon HKS Class Day Speech
… you for your warm introduction. Dr. Doug Elmendorf, dean of Harvard Kennedy School, distinguished professors of Harvard Kennedy School, dear Harvard Kennedy … begin my remarks by conveying my warmest congratulations to the Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2023. Exactly 39 years …
Josiah Meadows ’23 Latin Salutatory
… The Value of a Harvard Education Josiah Meadows ’23, Latin … præses designata, socii inspectoresque honoratissimi, professores tutoresque doctissimi, condiscipuli sodalesque … fortè correpserint, profectò inter se murmurant, “What in the world does this mean?” Hoc quadriennio felicitèr …
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
History-Making Astronaut
… lived out nearly every child’s fantasy when she soared aloft aboard NASA’s space shuttle Discovery in early July, making history as only the second African-American woman to venture into space. The … Massachusetts, native did graduate work at the University of Texas and was selected for NASA’s astronaut class of …
Issue: September-October 2006
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 …
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
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. …
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 …
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
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 …
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