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Where Is Harvard?
… ago , a graduate student used that question to sum up one of her earliest experiences walking through campus. As she traveled up John F. Kennedy Street, undergraduates made their way from the River Houses to the Yard, passing in and out of Lamont and Widener while freshmen streamed to and from …
Issue: January-February 2014
Medical Ethics Revisited
… economic stake in company-sponsored research conducted in their laboratories. The issue, under study by a committee … the June 1 debate. The school’s “Policy on Conflicts of Interest and Commitment” permits only minor exceptions to … being studied, or may receive consulting fees or honoraria of up to $10,000 annually from such companies. Those limits, …
"You Haven't Changed a Bit"
… It’s an odd ritual involving thousands of people, thousands of dollars, and thousands of miles. Pictures are dug out of … course I remember you!” It’s that great American tradition: the reunion. In the wildly if often deservedly …
Issue: May-June 2009
Cambridge 02138
… Linguistic Signs I read “ A Language Out of Nothing ” (by Marina Bolotnikova, May-June, page 50) with … thrilled to see that ASL has returned to Harvard, and that the University embraces what has always been obvious to me: … not now a problem as a result of the Fly Club. No surprise that, having targeted final clubs as a large …
Issue: July-August 2017
Final Club Fallout
… In the weeks since College dean Rakesh Khurana and President … on campus, both those opposed and those in favor of the policy—ranging from members of the clubs to alumni and the national media—have made …
Winter Sports
… filled with thrilling come-from-behind and overtime wins, the icemen (15-15-4 overall; 14-9-3 ECAC; 4-5-1 Ivy) peaked in the postseason, dispatching Brown, Clarkson, and Cornell to win the ECAC tournament with three straight overtime victories. …
Issue: May-June 2002
Bow Market
… Bow Market, in Somerville’s Union Square, is very likely the only place on the planet where you can shop for vintage furs, tuck into platters of pierogis and poutine, catch a comedy act, and then chill out all night with pints of Exquisite Corpse. “It’s a vibrant marketplace that does …
Issue: November-December 2019
A Poet’s Return
… ended up going by crab tender,” says Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, of her latest work trip. “It’s not lavish, or glamorous, … riding a crab tender out, 90 miles, 12 hours across the Bering Sea.” Kane’s choice of transportation—a small boat used alongside larger vessels …
Issue: January-February 2015
E-mail Search Protocols Update
… In the wake of revelations last spring that resident deans’ … 2012, during an Administrative Board investigation of undergraduate academic misconduct, President Drew Faust … Barron to establish University policies and procedures for the privacy of electronic communications. In the wake of an …
Harvard Portrait: Deborah Anker
… American whose Jewish grandparents crossed the Atlantic to escape the Holocaust, she got her start at a … Her family history sparked her passion for the subfield of asylum law, on which she later wrote the treatise that made her one of the discipline’s most prominent scholars. The clinical …
Issue: November-December 2014
Salads with Panache
… The high desert and gourmet salads; experience as both a … come naturally to Erin Wade ’03, farmer, chef, and owner of Vinaigrette, a salad bistro in Santa Fe. The menu at her … (100 seats in the summer, when the patio is open) offers about 20 varieties of salad daily—and her creations …
Issue: November-December 2011
Researchers Find Earliest Known Human Fossil Outside Africa
… human ancestors are thought to have begun migrating out of Africa about 100,000 years ago, but new evidence of human remains in a prehistoric cave finds that they left the continent at least 50,000 years earlier than …
University People
… Ciao Ann E. Berman Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Vice president for finance Ann E. Berman will relinquish the position next April. Berman, who has lived in and worked … since her appointment in 2002, cited a desire to spend half of each year there. She will continue to work on special …
Issue: November-December 2005
A Call for Public Service
… Alvarez-Bjelland ’76, M.B.A. ’79, quoting a CNN report on the topic: “Sex, exercise—and public service.” She plans to focus on public service this year as the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). “It makes us feel good to take care of others,” she explains, “and with the Obama …
Issue: September-October 2009
Driven to Cure
… begins scanning notes on a patient suffering from cancer of the brain and spinal fluid who has also developed a bad case of pneumonia. He enters the man's room with a hearty "Top of …
Issue: September-October 2001