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Where Teachers Thrive, Students Do
… Beginning in 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded a $575-million … dismissing ineffective ones,” writes Murphy research professor of education Susan Moore Johnson in her new book, Where …
Issue: November-December 2019
Ben S. Bernanke ’75 Shares Economics Nobel
… B en S. Bernanke ’75, former chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, today … economics with two other scholars of banking and financial crises. The honor—formally, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in …
Scientific Investigator
… today, after postdoctoral fellowships and a stint in the biotechnology industry, she is a full professor with joint appointments in the departments of biopharmaceutical sciences and of microbiology and …
Soup Chef
… like, and smell like, even in ordinary daily cooking: in other words, as a food connoisseur,” says Teresa Chen ’64. … prepared by her nanny, who came from the Shunde region of China, the reputed birthplace of many renowned chefs. But Chen’s mother, in her own …
Issue: September-October 2009
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 …
Christine Heenan to Depart
… January 31 and move to part-time, advisory status through the end of the academic year as she begins a transition into her new … will work with the Gates Foundation’s chief executive officer, Susan Desmond-Hellman (who was chancellor of the …
Titans Televised
… Two g reat scientists who could—theoretically—have taught at Harvard will be celebrated on … by an article in this magazine, written by Baird research professor of science Dudley Herschbach (see "Ben Franklin's …
Issue: November-December 2002
Caroline Engelmayer’s 2020/2021 Address: Iter Perpetuum
… Praeses Bacow, decani notissimi, professores doctissimi, familiae honoratissimae, hospites … omnes. mihi magno honori est apud vos in hoc foro, quod Theatrum Tercentenarium appellamus, verba proferre etiamsi in lingua (eheu) plurimis obscura. …
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 …
Harvard Basketball Star Noah Kirkwood’s Mid-Season Pivot
… In the first half of the men’s basketball team’s November game against MIT, Noah Kirkwood ’22 leapt into the air and swatted a shot off the backboard. Then his defense turned to offense: …
Harvard’s Commercial Campus Comes into Focus
… During three meetings of the Harvard Allston Task Force in July, Harvard development … vision of its plans for the first phase of its Enterprise Research Campus (ERC). Those meetings preceded a July …
Brevia
… Arts and Sciences Leader Claudine Gay (above) became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on August 15, succeeding Michael …
Issue: September-October 2018
Art in Academe
… As part of the campus-wide Arts First celebration, Arts @ 29 Garden was … undergraduate art gallery on April 27, and a survey of the scene showed that Harvard is taking the “arts” in the …
Harmonic Progression
… There are so many places to begin with composer Robert Kyr. Like here: “I grew up in a family where the scars of war were very much with us,” he says. His father had … And his mother, working for the Red Cross, had been one of the first to see the death camps after they were …
Issue: March-April 2017
Scrums, Rucks, Mauls
… minutes, in two 40-minute halves), you may be familiar with the scrum , a fun word to say, and, for the uninitiated, a … opposing team, all the while attempting to gain control of the ball (a chunkier, more ovoid version of a football) … rugby team at the U.S. Naval Academy. “But you’d be surprised—there’s also tremendous technique involved. At Navy, …
Issue: September-October 2013