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On-Ramps
… Harvard’s Business School, Law School, and Graduate School of Education (HBS, HLS, HGSE) for M.B.A., J.D. and LL.M., … and Ed.M. degrees now can—and in some cases must —begin their programs of study before matriculating. Making use … and valuation—the basic language for understanding an enterprise’s performance and status. By one estimate, serious …
Twyla Tharp: “Minimalism and Me”
… her early years as a creator in “Minimalism and Me” at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Fittingly, the show is an unusual … gives a pre-performance talk, then Tharp takes the stage to offer her own recollections, interspersed with photographs …
Issue: November-December 2018
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
“Harvard Is Where You Are”
… Ellen G. Reeves ’83, Ed.M. ’86, is probably the first Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) president to … Second City. And last fall she created Talk Show, a series of improvised performances run out of a storefront on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The show …
Issue: September-October 2011
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 …
New Study Calls Subway Germs Mostly Harmless
… Boston’s subway system is full of germs left behind by commuters on seats, poles, and … that may not be cause for concern, according to the results of a new study published this week in mSystems . The …
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
Investigating Harvard’s E-mail Investigations
… (Updated 7.23.13: Read an assessment of the report detailing Harvard’s e-mail investigations here.) … executive dean for administration, HMS John Gregory Morrisett, Cutting professor of computer science, School of …
Cautious Optimism
… From the start , it was clear there was something a little … energy, boosted in great part by the fiftieth-reunion class of 1968’s bright pink “Resist” armbands, was exceptionally … they’d settled down in the tent for the morning portion of the program, Lizabeth Cohen, the departing dean of the …
New Kennedy School Dean Announced
… The University announced today that Harvard Kennedy School … (HKS) announced that Jeremy M. Weinstein, Ph.D. ’03, a professor of international studies at Stanford University, will become …
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
“Building Strong Communities”
… Margaret M. Wang ’09, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), … for the organization for nearly a decade, while working professionally in business strategy and development “across a …
Issue: September-October 2018
President Bacow and Kevin Young at Annual Alumni Meeting
… F ollowing the second pandemic-induced virtual graduation exercises , … counterpart to the “morning exercises” (conferral of regular and honorary degrees) program that together … work of the University and its extended community during crises like the one now waning, Bacow said, “Harvard is our …
Lydialyle Gibson , Juliet Isselbacher
Engineering an Internal Clock
… Non-scientists generally think of “circadian clock” as a metaphoric term. There’s nothing literally ticking away inside the human body, helping align it to the regular cycle of day and night. But synthetic biologists from Harvard …
Harper Lee, Crime Reporter
… at this magazine, has since written widely and well, for The New Yorker , The New York Times , and other … like Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Knopf, $26.95), her first book, on the dual … in three counties knew that, and some were surprised no one had done it sooner—but to understand the …
Issue: May-June 2019