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Sarah Lewis
… by painter Jacob Lawrence while on a family visit to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “I was very young—tiny—and I … themselves, but “They made sure I understood the importance of African-American culture.” Now assistant professor of …
Issue: July-August 2017
Sea Sex
… Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the publisher advises, St. Martin’s Press will publish Sex … Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep, by marine biologist Marah J. Hardt ’00, of Boulder, Colorado. “Forget the Kama Sutra,” write the …
Issue: January-February 2016
Yesterday’s News
… 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt, A.B. 1880, in town to see his son, … produce students,” he tells them. “The college man, the man of intellect and training, should take the lead in every … 1922 Acknowledging the geographical dispersion of Harvard men, the Board of Overseers and the Corporation …
Issue: January-February 2022
Harvard’s Financial Outlook in an Unprecedented Semester
… Just 10 weeks ago , Harvard deans learned that the Corporation would decrease distributions from the endowment, rather than increasing them , in light of the pandemic-induced recession and reduced investment … hundred million dollars either way would not come as a surprise. Vice president for finance and chief financial officer …
Connections to China: Caregiving, Ecological City Planning
… On March 19, several Harvard schools had meetings with their local alumni. In addition, the Harvard Alumni Association convened a meeting of Asian alumni clubs, and Harvard China Fund hosted a … private developers to build on sites, and state-owned enterprises stopped providing housing to their workers (housing …
Issue: May-June 2010
Stories for Change
… continued into a career in journalism, most recently as theater critic for The Dallas Morning News. Nancy Churnin Photograph courtesy of Nancy Churnin Through covering a play about William Hoy—a … baseball player in the 1890s—she met Steve Sandy, a member of the deaf community, whose dream was to see Hoy inducted …
Issue: January-February 2018
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For Santiago's Poor, Housing with Dignity
… Santiago, Chile —A young boy plays unsupervised in front of a house that bears a small wooden sign, handwritten in … Se venden helados (ice cream for sale). Behind this rather ordinary scene is an extraordinary story with deep Harvard ties. In this tidy development of row houses, 170 families who once lived illegally have …
Issue: January-February 2009
Aloian Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has named Aldís Elfarsdóttir ’18, of Eliot House, and Hannah Smati ’18, of Adams House, the 2017 David and Mimi Aloian Memorial …
Issue: November-December 2017
Islamophobia, Anti-Americanism, Arab Spring
… Islamophobia is a problem in the United States, and anti-Americanism is a problem in the … Those conflicting realities were the idea behind a series of gifts by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal … to six universities, including Harvard , and the topic of a February 8 panel discussion among the leaders of the …
Afghanistan Will Be What It Always Was
… Saturday morning I awoke to hear that Qalat, the capital of Zabul Province, had fallen to the Taliban. It surprised me, only because I would have expected Qalat to just …
“Bravery, Not Perfection”
… before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P. ’99, … that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send …
History Detectives
… On December 26, 2004, one disaster triggered recollections of another. Utpal Sandesara ’08 was watching CNN coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami when his mother started crying. …
Issue: March-April 2012
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
… THe names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
University People
… by Stephanie Mitchell/HPAC Honor Roll Conant University Professor Danielle S. Allen has been awarded the Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The prize, announced by the Librarian of …
Issue: September-October 2020
New Digs
… Claudine Gay settles in at Massachusetts Hall—just across the Old Yard from her former Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean’s office in University Hall—on July 5, the first …
Issue: September-October 2023