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Princess Not-So-Charming
… “Fairy tales have always tapped into the subconscious, bringing to light children’s deepest … brought that tenet into the twenty-first century. The first of a trilogy for middle-grade readers (ages nine and up), … Sophie, with her waist-long blond hair and her dreams of becoming a princess, and her friend Agatha, an …
Issue: May-June 2013
“To Be True to Our Complicated History”
… Midway through the list of names was when the crowd fell fully silent. Some … around the outdoor podium where Janet Halley, Royall professor of law, was reading out the names of slaves who’d …
“Building Strong Communities”
… Margaret M. Wang ’09, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), … for the organization for nearly a decade, while working professionally in business strategy and development “across a …
Issue: September-October 2018
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
Cautious Optimism
… From the start , it was clear there was something a little … energy, boosted in great part by the fiftieth-reunion class of 1968’s bright pink “Resist” armbands, was exceptionally … they’d settled down in the tent for the morning portion of the program, Lizabeth Cohen, the departing dean of the …
News Briefs
… 1 , Ron Unz ’83 delivered petitions for himself and four other candidates seeking places on the ballot for the annual election of new members to Harvard’s Board of Overseers. (The list of Harvard Alumni Association …
Issue: March-April 2016
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 …
Harper Lee, Crime Reporter
… at this magazine, has since written widely and well, for The New Yorker , The New York Times , and other … like Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Knopf, $26.95), her first book, on the dual … in three counties knew that, and some were surprised no one had done it sooner—but to understand the …
Issue: May-June 2019
Administrative Data Systems Modernized
… Harvard's modernization of its financial-data systems--the first phase of a $115-million University-wide project … here, people who are experienced in managing large, enterprise-wide systems...What we have learned is that you need to …
Harvard Plans to Restart Allston Project
… Harvard would like to rapidly resume construction of its science project in Allston ( where work ceased in 2010 as a result of the financial crisis ), a University representative …
University People
… Portraiture Project , meant to include important members of the community, has now produced its likeness of the late S. Allen Counter, founding director of the …
Issue: July-August 2018
“No more pencils, no more books…”
… Even in elementary school, one suspects, the incursion of technology—tablets, laptops, … now rendered all but obsolete students’ venerable end-of-year ditty: “No more pencils/no more books/no more …
Issue: May-June 2019
Farewell
… brilliant leader and administrator. Geyser University Professor and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences emeritus, former acting …
Issue: January-February 2023
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 …
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Keeping Faith
… was founded to educate aspiring Protestant ministers in the seventeenth century, its supporters could hardly have … day when religious faith was not the center and the purpose of students' lives and vocations. Three hundred and sixty … inter-ethnic activities at Hillel, has been pleasantly surprised by the enthusiastic student response to the interfaith …