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Taming Turbulence
… Waft the scent of cinnamon, wintergreen, or eucalyptus into the tropical air of Central and South America and beautifully colored bees in …
Issue: November-December 2009
History-Making Harvard Skier Pushes His Limits
… Everyone has jitters in the moments before a mass-start cross-country ski race, and for good reason. When the gun goes off, dozens of competitors, with just a few feet of space between them, …
Issue: March-April 2022
Football 2022: Yale 19-Harvard 14
… E arly in the fourth quarter on Saturday, Harvard’s Jonah Lipel booted … Crimson led, 14-13, over Yale in the 138th playing of The Game. Now it was up to the Harvard defense to hold … into scoring territory? It could not. In a microcosm of the game at large, Grooms led Yale on a 75-yard march …
On Public Notice
… Some might doubt that anyone reads those paragraphs of dense text that appear toward the back of the newspaper: the ones that contain information … The McClatchy Company, Adams Publishing Group, Lee Enterprises, Ogden Newspapers, and Wick Communications—and works …
Honoris Causa
… honorary degrees at Harvard’s 349th Commencement. In order of presentation, the honorands were: Maclyn McCarty, Rockefeller professor emeritus, Rockefeller University. He and his …
Professorial Permutations
… During the past quarter-century , Harvard’s faculty has become more … has refocused its intellectual energies. The University’s professoriate includes more women and minorities, and is … changes has been a slow process at times. When Conant professor of education Judith Singer joined the faculty in …
Issue: September-October 2011
Please, Run!
… kids at Laurel Elementary School spill outside for recess. They race across the blacktop, screeching and laughing, to … it awesome!” says Jill Vialet ’86 (’87), founder and CEO of Playworks, a nonprofit that partners with schools to … of thousands of hours,” she says. “People are always surprised that I actually put in about 40 hours a week.” As a …
Issue: November-December 2018
Aloian Winners
… Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian '49, a former executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) and Master of Quincy House, the Aloian Memorial Scholarships recognize …
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 …
Commencement Confetti
… Crimson 1–News Office 0 The Harvard Gazette went online long ago, but Harvard Public … edition to distribute each Commencement morning: a record of the year, and something for parents and guests to do …
Issue: July-August 2022
University People
… Development Leader to Depart With the Harvard Campaign headed for a record finish as of June 30, the same day Drew Faust’s presidency concludes, … president for alumni affairs and development at the end of 2018—time enough to wind up the fundraising drive, thank …
Issue: March-April 2018
Jaju’s Premiere Pierogies
… ratio. Premier pierogies—Polish dumplings—must leap all these culinary hurdles to become the ultimate comfort food. “We have family recipes,” answers Vanessa White, part of the sister-duo who own Jaju Pierogi , “but we also know that a lot of the magic is in the feel.” Their eggy dough’s elasticity …
Issue: July-August 2021
Coming Home, Coming Out
… public gay activist. In Brooklyn, New York, where he was the only child in a Conservative Jewish household, he kept … who was equally dismayed. Sandi Dubowski '92 Courtesy of Sandi Dubowski Dubowski says his parents never rejected him outright. But as is often the case when gays and lesbians "come out" to their …
Issue: March-April 2004
Subtle Improvements
… is a follow-up test: a so-called CD4+ count, which measures the level of a key type of immune cell in her bloodstream, indicating whether she is …
Public Health Messaging in a Pandemic
… On June 21 via Zoom, a panel of five medical and public health experts discussed the last two years of the pandemic—the successes and the failures—from …