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… Would-Be Honorands Before COVID-19 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, Harvard announced that … would be Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013—perhaps the nation’s leading newspaper journalist during an era of traumatic change within the industry and of unprecedented …
Issue: May-June 2020
Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits
… Put a fleck of paint under a microscope, and it tells a story. “Portrait of a Woman,” an Egyptian funerary portrait from the second century C.E., began with a piece of wood from a …
Issue: November-December 2022
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… • Education Executive • Harvard Portrait • Harvard by the Numbers • Sweeping Change for Science • Map Miscreant • … to Institutions" • A Living Political Monument • Brevia • Therapeutic Cloning Reseach Approved • The Undergraduate • Sports • Alumni Not a Level Playing …
Issue: September-October 2006
Immigrant Stories, in Song
… Tonight, a digital Broadway concert offers the first glimpse of what will become Lives in Limbo , the musical. The …
Roxanne Guenette
… “One of the big questions of science is trying to understand how our universe works,” … is 25 percent of matter currently unknown? We know it’s there, but don’t know what it is.” That she pursues such …
Issue: March-April 2021
New Semester, New Minister, New Questions
… Speaking at the first Morning Prayers service of the new semester, her … used the occasion to welcome Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer professor of Christian morals, as the new Pusey Minister of …
Educating Educators
… Bridget Terry Long had the good timing to become dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) on July 1, 2018—the same day that the …
Issue: July-August 2019
Harvard Previews Future Building Plans in Allston
… Harvard previewed its plans for the next decade of construction on its 184-acre Allston … processes will soon begin for the second phase of the Enterprise Research Campus , a commercial development ( the first …
Open Book: Hiding in a Tick Mattress
… In 2015, while she was working on The Limits of Blame: Rethinking Punishment and … Responsibility (Harvard, 2018), Erin I. Kelly, Ph.D. ’95, professor of philosophy at Tufts, interviewed Winfred Rembert …
Issue: September-October 2021
Alumni Admissions Interviewers Honored
… Hiram S. Hunn, A.B. 1921, and retired admissions officer Dwight D. Miller, Ed.M. ’71—recognize eight alumni for their volunteer efforts to recruit and interview prospective undergraduates. Glen Cheng ’93, of Hong Kong, has interviewed candidates there since 1994, …
Issue: November-December 2021
A Second Chance, Seized
… women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith sat on the bleachers in Lavietes Pavilion, still dismayed by her … NCAAs. The Crimson drew a road matchup with the University of New Hampshire, the regular-season champion in the America … East Conference, on Friday night. Harvard made the most of that opportunity, defeating the Wildcats 69-56 to improve …
Harvard’s Governing Boards Refreshed
… It’s the changing of the University guard: as President Drew Faust conducts her … Accordingly, Penny S. Pritzker ’81 (former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and a past Harvard Overseer) and Carolyn A. …
Brevia
… Giang T. Nguyen has been appointed executive director of Harvard University Health Services (HUHS), which provides … students and to faculty and staff members who choose it for their health benefits. A family-medicine practitioner, he … venture-capital firm for difficult-to-build enterprises (in fields like energy from fusion, which need lots of …
Issue: November-December 2019
Mormonism and Mortality
… James Allworth and Karen Dillon), focuses on values and offers its readers guidance in aligning their choices, professional and otherwise, with the things that genuinely …
Issue: July-August 2014
U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik Removed from IOP Advisory Committee
… Elise Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) has been removed from the senior advisory committee of the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Institute of Politics, HKS dean Doug Elmendorf wrote in an …