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Janet E. Halley
… The dean of Stanford Law School alleges that it is located in paradise, and until recently Janet Halley was professor and Paradise faculty scholar for excellence in teaching and research there. But she left, willingly, to become professor at …
“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 …
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 …
Try, Try Again
… with its tackles and breakdowns and wild chasing sprints, Sofie Fella ’22 was a dancer and a soccer player. She liked both, but neither quite fit. Her ballet instructors kept nagging that her … Are you kidding me?’”). Then one day, during her first year of high school, her gym teachers suggested she try out for …
Issue: July-August 2019
Ode to a Beloved Maestro
… a family reunion . Or, perhaps, even better, said conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), Federico Cortese : … HRO alumni—now doctors, lawyers, teachers, and some, professional musicians—reunited in Cambridge to play a reunion …
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
Darkness Visible
… at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, having hiked past the lawn concert of dirgeful folk music—an audience of couples propped against each other as though they had …
Issue: November-December 2018
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
Math Professor Lauren Williams Explores New Ground
… Jealous of elementary-school classmates who spoke foreign languages, Robinson professor of mathematics Lauren Williams found another way to communicate: …
Issue: January-February 2022
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
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 …
Chapter & Verse
… is death"--and where. Marian Barkley is looking for the source of the phrase "these (the?) half-forgotten, sunlit days." Gerald Hogan requests the text and author of a long poem or ballad, possibly Welsh or Scottish, …
Winter Sports
… Men's Basketball The hoopsters (10-7, 2-2 Ivy) started well and twice … Women's Basketball Looking to repeat as Ivy champions, the netwomen (12-4, 4-0 Ivy) crushed Princeton, 78-42, and … Peljto '04 tossing in a season-high 32 points. Peljto leads the squad in scoring (20.8 points per game) and rebounding …
Issue: March-April 2003
“This Is a Gift”
… University Press (HUP), all working from home, followed the news of demonstrations spreading around the country—and around … they needed to do more than simply issue a statement of solidarity. “We wanted to contribute actively in some …
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 …