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First-Generation Challenges
… Luis Ubiñas ’85, M.B.A. ’89, grew up in the South Bronx during the 1970s. His father had died young, … resembled bombed-out Dresden: buildings burned amid piles of rubble and garbage. Poverty and drugs were rampant. Most … moment,” Ubiñas reports, “and hope that the accumulation of those successes leads to something good later.” An …
Issue: September-October 2012
Debating Sharia Law, Digitally
… A simple Google search for the word “sharia” illustrates the magnitude of the gap Harvard Law School (HLS) professor Intisar A. Rabb wants to fill. Up top, there’s a …
Issue: May-June 2015
Study Finds “Cultural Gap” between Harvard Athletics and Academics
… A study of the Harvard Department of Athletics, released today, highlighted a “cultural and … athletics and academics at Harvard. Commissioned in the fall of 2019 by Claudine Gay, dean of the Faculty of …
Brevia
… Arts and Sciences Leader Claudine Gay (above) became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on August 15, succeeding Michael …
Issue: September-October 2018
Commencement Confetti
… Crimson 1–News Office 0 The Harvard Gazette went online long ago, but Harvard Public … edition to distribute each Commencement morning: a record of the year, and something for parents and guests to do …
Issue: July-August 2022
Alyssa Goodman
… deep sea to outer space. Last year, she was appointed professor of astronomy, becoming the second female full professor in that department—and the … the preconditions for star formation, a phenomenon that arises in cores within molecular clouds; gravity, magnetic …
Public Health Messaging in a Pandemic
… On June 21 via Zoom, a panel of five medical and public health experts discussed the last two years of the pandemic—the successes and the failures—from …
History-Making Harvard Skier Pushes His Limits
… Everyone has jitters in the moments before a mass-start cross-country ski race, and for good reason. When the gun goes off, dozens of competitors, with just a few feet of space between them, …
Issue: March-April 2022
Forgive, but Don’t Forget
… The first person President Donald Trump pardoned, in August … The month before, a federal judge had found Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt, which carried a jail sentence of up to six months, for “flagrant disregard” of a court …
Issue: November-December 2019
Harmonic Progression
… There are so many places to begin with composer Robert Kyr. Like here: “I grew up in a family where the scars of war were very much with us,” he says. His father had … And his mother, working for the Red Cross, had been one of the first to see the death camps after they were …
Issue: March-April 2017
Making Voters Care About Climate Change
… climate change at Harvard Extension School and told his father, “Dad, you have to do something about this.” The … ecosystem impacts that will be locked in for thousands of years —from Hooper professor of geology Daniel Schrag. The prospect had shocked …
Engineering Bioengineering
… As Harvard pursues a broad program of bioengineering research and teaching, one element—based … deciphering life forms and processes, and making novel uses of the discoveries—has made a major advance. On October 7, the …
Issue: January-February 2009
Twyla Tharp: “Minimalism and Me”
… her early years as a creator in “Minimalism and Me” at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Fittingly, the show is an unusual … gives a pre-performance talk, then Tharp takes the stage to offer her own recollections, interspersed with photographs …
Issue: November-December 2018
President Bacow and Kevin Young at Annual Alumni Meeting
… F ollowing the second pandemic-induced virtual graduation exercises , … counterpart to the “morning exercises” (conferral of regular and honorary degrees) program that together … work of the University and its extended community during crises like the one now waning, Bacow said, “Harvard is our …
Lydialyle Gibson , Juliet Isselbacher
On Public Notice
… Some might doubt that anyone reads those paragraphs of dense text that appear toward the back of the newspaper: the ones that contain information … The McClatchy Company, Adams Publishing Group, Lee Enterprises, Ogden Newspapers, and Wick Communications—and works …