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“If You Believe That It Is Possible to Break, Believe That It Is Possible to Repair”
… Class Day had many firsts: Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan ’88 was the first openly gay person to speak at the occasion, … whose members had performed a record-breaking 390,095 hours of pro bono work. One of the most influential lawyers of her generation, Kaplan …
Fighting West Nile
… brew he uses to attract female mosquitoes. He prepares the infusion according to a simple recipe. Add hay, with perhaps a touch of fecal matter, to a 55-gallon, water-filled barrel fitted … ready to use. Reiter, a scientist with the dengue branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) in …
Issue: November-December 2001
Cambridge 02138
… The Arboretum What a wonderful piece! (“ Rooted ,” by Nancy … to say, I’m particularly grateful you included the picture of the katsura tree. What a lovely story. It embodies the … member of the “Class of 1967,” in the years since there’s arisen some vague but still meaningful sense of being part of …
Issue: May-June 2022
New Life for Old Instruments
… "Little known and little used," the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments will become, in the expectations of its new curator, Sara Schechner '79, Ph.D. '82, the heart …
Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D. ’89, and Emmanuelle Charpentier Share Chemistry Nobel
… The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded jointly this morning to Emmanuelle Charpentier, of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, and Jennifer A. Doudna, Ph.D. ’89, of …
Brevia
… Racial Justice in FAS Following the appointment of the University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer ( Brevia, September-October , page 21), Faculty of …
Issue: November-December 2020
An Arts Advance
… President Drew Faust and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith have … initiative to develop an undergraduate concentration in theater, dance, and media. The proposal must undergo the … FAS campaign literature on “Faculty and Our Scholarly Enterprise” (some $600 million within the overall $2.5-billion …
Admissions Lawsuit, Round Two
… Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston heard oral … while our country is currently grappling with the dual crises of police violence and the COVID-19 pandemic.” Earlier …
Crystal Balls
… They were prepared. Alexandra Petri ’10, a columnist for … on “A New Foundation for American Greatness” (the title of the first Trump budget) noted that the lengthy document … was widely criticized for cutting “needed programs in favor of increasing military spending by leaps and bounds.” Petri …
Issue: September-October 2020
Spartan Means, Splendid Spaces
… In the summer of 1991, as a new North Carolina State University … concrete over rebars at Arcosanti, a planned community in the Arizona desert designed by the celebrated architect … “It was a hippie-throwback place,” she recalls. “Living off the land in a progressive, communal atmosphere. A …
Issue: November-December 2010
Undergraduate Education Agendas
… I. Gen Ed in the Offing When she became dean of undergraduate education last July 1, Amanda Claybaugh, … Ironically, the biggest challenge to acceptance has arisen from students’ decade-long stampede into the more …
Issue: March-April 2019
College Announces New Public-Service Leadership
… Continuing an effort to enhance the role of public service in students’ lives, Harvard … College dean Rakesh Khurana today announced that Warren professor of the history of American education Julie Reuben …
Social Media Use and Adult Depression
… Parenting teenagers in 2022 generally entails worrying about their use of platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok; … their parents and grandparents too. The findings come out of the COVID States Project, a series of surveys of adults …
Issue: March-April 2022
Ode to a Beloved Maestro
… a family reunion . Or, perhaps, even better, said conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), Federico Cortese : … HRO alumni—now doctors, lawyers, teachers, and some, professional musicians—reunited in Cambridge to play a reunion …
News Briefs
… Dean Duo As the Harvard presidency transitions from Drew Faust to … announced late in spring term. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Paul professor of constitutional law and professor of history, has been …
Issue: July-August 2018