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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
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
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
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
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
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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
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 …
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
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 …
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
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
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
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
“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 …
Thoroughly Eclectic
… name, which rhymes with “Lisa”) slips through an alley on the left side of Broadway’s century-old Belasco Theatre. She opens a … applied to Harvard on a lark, but once there, she was surprised and delighted to be surrounded by people who shared …
Issue: July-August 2008