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Hiram Hunn Awards
… Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid on October 2 for their …
Issue: November-December 2015
“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 …
Graduate Students Strike
… A t press time, two days before the beginning of winter reading period, the Harvard Graduate … with day-long picket lines planned during the first week of December in Harvard Yard and at the Longwood medical …
Issue: January-February 2020
Bites from Eastern Europe
… Moldovan restaurant. That country is not much bigger than the state of Massachusetts, but offers a more robust culinary heritage. Foods and flavors of …
Issue: November-December 2017
History, Crowdsourced
… Amid the COVID-19 lockdown this past spring, the Harvard … and eighteenth centuries. The ambitious effort is part of the multiyear digitization of manuscript diaries, letters, maps, documents, and …
Issue: November-December 2020
Life Lessons
… One summer’s day, the (terrestrial) mail brought, unbidden, a package from … who’d purged her shelves for a charity book sale, and one of the evicted volumes: the handsomely published, if somewhat acidified, Life of Amos A. Lawrence, with Extracts from his Diary and …
Issue: November-December 2019
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 …
“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
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 …
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 …
All College Spring-Semester Grades Will Be Satisfactory-Unsatisfactory
… be graded on a satisfactory-unsatisfactory system, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay and dean of undergraduate …
Seeing Further
… R esearch universities change the world by taking the long view. Consider recombinant DNA. Fifty years ago, the possibility of manipulating and editing the building blocks of life had just been realized in laboratories devoted to …
Issue: November-December 2021
Harvard Headlines: Pioneers in Mathematics, Cancer Drug Discovery, and Development Economics
… Three recent features in other magazines tell stories with Harvard links: Shing-Tung Yau , Graustein professor of mathematics and chair of Harvard's mathematics …
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
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