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Finding Voices
… Marilyn Booth ’77 is one of the world’s most prolific translators of Arabic fiction into English. For nearly four decades, she …
Issue: May-June 2021
Election Results 2023
… The newly elected members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the …
Issue: July-August 2023
Commencement Confetti
… Affinities Affirmed There are now eight University-wide affinity group … post-pandemic downshifting has been punctuated by large layoffs at Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft…all the way to Zoom. Further evidence of softness in the …
Issue: July-August 2023
New Impressions
… to reach fresh audiences. Autumn is an ideal time to sample the city’s vibrant cultural life, as the sidewalks swell … students returning to campus and summer travelers shake off the sand. On Thursday, September 21, the MFA ( … with a Latinx Heritage Night, partnering with local nonprofits Amplify Latinx and Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción. …
Issue: September-October 2023
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
Harvard’s NBA Champion
… For a couple of years now, the Harvard men’s basketball team and Denver Nuggets star … the College. (In fact, the seven-foot-tall center played professional basketball in his native Serbia before joining …
News Briefs
… Amherst College announced in October that it will end the alumni preference in its admissions decisions. “[C]hildren of alumni who are academically well-qualified” make up about 11 percent of each class now, it said, but “Going forward, legacy …
Issue: January-February 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 …
Everyday Indigeneity
… Within a few shelves at Tozzer Library, the boundaries between academia and daily existence blur. Here, hundreds of ordinary items from 2000s Indigenous life—zines, comics, … games, and language learning tools—exist alongside some of the world’s oldest, most comprehensive anthropology and …
Issue: September-October 2023
Honoris Causa
… degrees on May 25. Provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Lawrence … Adm. Michael G. Mullen, Ret., the seventeenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, serving under both Presidents George H. W. Bush …
Issue: July-August 2023
Farewell
… When I took office in 2018, I thought I knew our University very well. I … I returned to Harvard to do some teaching and mentoring at the Graduate School of Education and the Kennedy School. I also served as a …
Issue: May-June 2023
Life After Brain Injury
… ill, suddenly fumbling over her words during a meeting and then fading in and out of consciousness as friends rushed her home and her husband … fever hovered between 101 and 103 degrees. When, on day 10 of her coma, her husband agreed to let doctors wean Gold off …
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, …
Special Gifts
… As Harvard University pursues exciting opportunities—from the arts and engineering sciences to ever-wider … the ever-expanding University—at a time when the high value of its work matters as never before to the world—and to … Harvard Magazine requires more and different kinds of funding. Special gifts from alumni enable Harvard …
Permafrost Fare
… as a favorite pasta salad might be, it tastes about the same whether made in Arkansas, Nevada, or Maine, jokes Marylène Altieri, Schlesinger Library curator of books and printed materials. A recipe for soured seal … Her simple instructions are followed by a direct appraisal of the outcome. “Most of the boys and girls don’t like it, …
Issue: September-October 2022