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… 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
Visas and Visions
… LOT at borders,” says Kavita Shah ’07, laughing, “I think they think I’m smuggling drugs because they see my passport … her varied experiences, her sound challenges the boundaries of geographic territories and musical genres. She first … different musical structures and traditions as a member of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, which …
Issue: May-June 2015
Vocals, Guitar, and Stethoscope
… come my way/ I ain’t always such a nice girl.” Like many of the bluesy, country-rock songs on Heartstrings, Brown’s … which favors the raspy edge of her pure voice. That surprised her. “I don’t even listen to country,” she says. “The …
Issue: September-October 2011
Numbers Game
… Although the College has developed the roster of courses for the reenvisioned General Education portion of undergraduates’ curriculum , debuting this coming fall …
About Athletics
… As in other realms —thousands of courses, hundreds of nonsports … the substantial athletic operation is a human enterprise, and so can find itself enmeshed in controversies. …
Issue: November-December 2019
Fresh Fellows
… s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year will be Noah Pisner ’14 and … harvardmagazine.com, among other responsibilities. Pisner, of Fairfax, Virginia, and Winthrop House, transferred to the College following a year at the University of Southern California, where he studied cinema and …
Issue: September-October 2013
"Smarter, Stronger, Kinder"
… The speeches were nice, but it was the Muppets everybody had … come to see. That’s why Sanders Theatre was packed to the roof Wednesday evening with excited listeners—all adults now, … In the late 1960s, Sesame Street co-founders Lloyd Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney, Ar.D. ’75, approached the …
Court Upholds Harvard’s Race-Conscious Admissions Program
… Allison Burroughs , the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit arguing that Harvard College’s use of race in admissions discriminates against … reflected any discriminatory animus, or even an application of an Asian American who it contended should have or would …
Harvard Helps Local Small Businesses
… Campus Services sent an internal email to staff with news of how the unit is helping students—and the community at large— … isolation at the Harvard Square Hotel, wrote vice president of campus services Meredith Weenick. “In the early days, we …
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
… THe names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected …
“More Shots on Goal”
… on relatively simple, discrete tasks: classifying images of galaxies, for instance, or tracking birds in the backyard. But both research and industry are beginning … innovation,” a mindset that has prompted research enterprises from academia to industry to look beyond their …
University People
… University Professors Laurence H. Tribe Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office George M. Whitesides Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard … appellate advocate, he has presented dozens of cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003, he was lead author of the …
Issue: September-October 2004
Doing Good Scientifically
… to keep a Kenyan child in school? A decade ago, Gates professor of developing societies Michael Kremer found that improving … problem. That’s because—like one in four people around the world—many Kenyan pupils suffer parasitic-worm …
Capturing Carbon
… a company, Carbon Engineering, in 2009, while he held the Canada Research Chair in energy and the environment at the University of Calgary, to capture carbon and use it to develop … projects. (He launched it with $3.5 million from a group of angel investors that included Bill Gates.) The pilot …
Issue: July-August 2013
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 …