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“Pugnacious” Poet and Pulitzer Prize-Winner at Phi Beta Kappa
… and orator Linda Greenhouse ’68, speaking in Sanders Theatre, launched the Memorial Day-shortened Commencement … a reputation as a pugnacious poet rooted in his home ground of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and his adopted home of San Francisco; Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Brevia
… Stephen J. Greenblatt Jon Chase/ Harvard News Office Cogan Professorship for Critic Praising his leadership in shaping "the direction of scholarship and criticism in literature …
Brevia
… Town and Gown The section on capital projects in the 2020 edition of Harvard’s annual “Town Gown Report” to the City of … of stock. Coursera was established as a for-profit enterprise; edX is a nonprofit consortium of member universities …
Issue: May-June 2021
News Briefs
… Giving Guidance In the wake of the “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal (which … it with The Harvard Gazette , Provost Alan Garber, chair of the University gift policy committee (the referee for …
Issue: September-October 2020
A Progress Report on Faculty Diversity
… Just last year, the statistics department hired its first tenured female professor, Susan Murphy. Lauren Williams ’00 will join the … hires reflect Harvard’s growing interest in the diversity of its faculty. For the last decade, the University has …
“Feeling Fast”
… her blood. “Yeah, we’re not really an aquatic people,” says the senior, who last year co-captained Harvard’s sailing … team. “For Mongolians, and Missourians too…water is kind of a foreign concept.” Maybe that’s what drew her to it. … home field, “is a famously shifty venue,” she says. “A lot of people get frustrated with that. The paradigms you expect …
Issue: May-June 2017
Na Li
… As a pure-mathematics student at China’s Zhejiang University, Na Li often asked professors how her courses applied to real-life systems. If …
Issue: September-October 2019
Football 2022: Harvard 35-Cornell 28
… Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Playing on the road last weekend against an Ivy bottom-feeder, the … to a seemingly insurmountable lead, then frittered most of it away. In a result that hung in the balance until the … Yes, there was difference in the details, but the conquest of lightly regarded Cornell last Friday night at nearly …
Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open
… interdisciplinary center for creativity and innovation on the University’s Allston campus, is undergoing “final … inaugural director is contemporary art curator and arts professional Bree Edwards, who has served as the director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Arts. The …
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Boston Approves Campus Services Move to Allston
… The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) voted unanimously … for planned development on the existing site, at the corner of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street. The Travis … services (especially the vehicular component)—the target of much criticism from local residents who felt the …
Memorable Mentors
… Mentor remembered. Francis A. Boyle, J.D. ’76, Ph.D. ’83, professor of law at the University of Illinois, recalling his beloved …
Issue: November-December 2021
Speaking Frankly, at West Point
… Drew Faust gave one of the signal speeches of her Harvard presidency at West Point this past March. The …
Issue: July-August 2016
Bacow on Biden’s Agenda, Harvard Policing
… In a flurry of activity just before Harvard begins its extended winter … more welcoming to international students and scholars after the Trump administration’s sweeping restrictions. … Separately, he also introduced the external review of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) …
Communities We Choose
… As he walked to Phillips Brooks House's annual plant sale, the undergraduate paused at a newfound clearing in the Yard … renovated Holworthy Hall. He thought back to how that end of the Yard had looked during his own first year in Thayer Hall, which now had a new fifth floor of living space. He wondered if the renovation, part of a …
University Approves New Law School Shield
… More than five years after the Harvard Corporation acceded to Harvard Law School’s … to HLS,” wrote Dean John F. Manning in an email. “Members of our community shared with the Working Group that, because of HLS’s wide-ranging scope, depth, and diversity, the Law …