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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
Institution-building at PBHA
… "It's the first-ever reunion of Phillips Brooks House Association … says Francis H. Duehay '55, Ed.D. '68, speaking of a get-together planned for November 10 and 11 in Cambridge. Formed in …
Yesterday’s News
… 1921 Thirteen women, students at the School of Education, apply for tickets to the Yale Game. … are especially nervous have followed the advice of their physicians by resigning.” 1936 Historian Samuel …
Issue: November-December 2021
Sweet Farewell
… Spider man. Parents pass their names along to children. Donors often have theirs applied to buildings. But scientists have … of dancing in Memorial Hall ensued. The public exit reprised Faust’s first official day in office, July 2, 2007, …
Issue: September-October 2018
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
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
Corporation Appoints Three New Members
… Following the Commencement-week meetings of the Harvard Corporation … of Harvard’s Engineering and Applied Sciences enterprise from Division to School, and is the immediate past …
President Bacow's Commencement Remarks
… As prepared for delivery May 25, 2023 I suspect many of you are sitting here today, as newly minted Harvard graduates, wondering what the future holds for you. I can relate to that. This is my … way through life—that you will have similarly pleasant surprises. And now, to all of those who helped me along the …
Brevia
… Decanal Departure Allan M. Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) since January 2008, stepped down …
Issue: May-June 2012
Buzzing In
… It’s a sport where the mind is the only muscle worth working, where players … and where hand exercises have been prescribed as a means of improving buzzer speed. It’s called Quiz Bowl. And, big surprise, Harvard is good at it. Led by a cast of characters …
Issue: January-February 2009
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
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
Twenty-eighth, and First
… administrator—Drew Gilpin Faust forcefully took possession of her Harvard presidency during inaugural celebrations and … 12. She did so in striking language and imagery, telling the crowd in Tercentenary Theatre—their spirits unchilled by … hill.” Crucially, then as now, Winthrop defined this enterprise as “work we have undertaken,” the success of which …
Issue: November-December 2007
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 …
“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 …