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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
“Like Driving at Night”
… arrives this spring, didn’t grow up wanting to be a writer. The current Los Angeles resident—born in Orange County, but … attended the College, and her mother the Graduate School of Education. Shipstead says she entered as an “aggressive” … the palpable sorrow hanging over fellow students, many of them East Coasters. With time, she learned to temper her …
Issue: May-June 2021
Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Secrets
… Something about the statue made it unforgettable to Ellery Sedgwick, A.B. … it for him three days later: a life-sized wooden statue of a small boy dressed in red, his hands pressed together as if in prayer or meditation. Sedgwick—owner-editor of the Atlantic Monthly— purchased the piece and had it …
Silvana Gómez’s Undergraduate English Address
… Creating–Not Accepting–Our New Normal The morning of my first day of kindergarten, I woke up ready to take on the day. At five …
Commencement Confetti
… after me," Class Day speaker Quincy Delight Jones Jr. told the audience of seniors and their families, who were standing and holding … for the goosebumps," he said. [caption] Rashida Jones '97, of Eliot House and Los Angeles, flanked by her parents, …
Virtual Graduation 2.0
… Anyone who worked remotely during the past 16 months knows that doing business digitally is … . More evidence came during “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021,” on May 27: the second COVID-era virtual graduation … Lawrence S. Bacow and the deans assembled online knocked off the conferring of degrees in about three minutes flat—a …
Issue: July-August 2021
Lindsay Sanwald, Graduate English Address
… not yet born today will want to know… where were you when the World stopped? It could be your future granddaughter, … Presidential memoir. How will you tell this time? For many of us here today, we get to answer that we were students at … my first and final spring on campus. I began in the fall of 2019 as a fully embodied presence in the classrooms, but …
Racial Bias and Redistricting
… last year, legislators and independent commissions across the United States have been busy redrawing the contours of American democracy. The redistricting process occurs once … voting advantage for a particular group. Partisan fighting arises over the question of who gets the advantage, and how …
Issue: March-April 2022
Alan M. Garber Appointed Provost
… M. Garber ’76, Ph.D. ’82 (M.D. Stanford, ’83), now Kaiser professor and professor of medicine and economics at Stanford, … provost effective September 1. President Drew Faust made the announcement today . Garber succeeds Steven E. Hyman, … arts —released, unfortunately, as economic and financial crises arose in late 2008—is full of “compelling” ideas, he …
A Chaucer Tale
… Yorker newsbreak (those column-ending items harvested from other media) captured this community’s braininess by relating one side of a telephone conversation overheard in the Radcliffe registrar’s office: “No, that’s ‘D,’ as in Dostoevsky.” Plus ça change …
Issue: May-June 2018
Rounding into Form
… On New Year’s Eve , the Harvard women’s basketball team beat Stony Brook 60-53. … serious problems. Among them: her team “was not fluid offensively,” she said, and her players’ confidence was … basketball head coaching position. According to Catherine Crisera ’96, who is spearheading the effort with former …
Boston’s Cycleboat Cruises
… Sipping their canned tequila cocktails, two young women who’d hopped … with a smile, about 10 minutes into the 90-minute tour of Boston’s inner harbor. The refreshing trip offers a novel perspective on the city and its landmarks. …
Issue: July-August 2021
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
An Auspicious View
… The effect takes a moment to sink in: a double-sided folding … and azurite blue. On one side, the instantly recognizable profile of Mount Fuji, with its long, snow-covered slopes sweeping …
Issue: November-December 2020
Thinking Straight
… Does rational reasoning count for anything these days? The evidence is discouraging, but as Johnstone Family professor of psychology Steven Pinker argues, the answer had better be …
Issue: January-February 2022