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As Coronavirus Spreads, Harvard Cancels Athletics
… University administrators informed College students that they must move out of their dorms by 5 p.m. on Sunday, Harvard Athletics began … NCAA canceled the tournaments altogether. The initial lack of clarity frustrated athletes who were set to compete in …
School Days
… have benefited from a first-rate education, not only of late but throughout our lives. Whether through family support, dedicated teachers, or privileged access to better schools, virtually all of us were fortunate enough to be loved, nurtured, and …
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
… With the extensive collection of children’s books donated by … renovated Houghton Library could have opened an exhibit of the genre’s “greatest hits.” Among other treasures, …
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
"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 …
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
Learning by Doing
… covered with blackboard paint and tables on wheels fill one of Harvard’s more unusual new classrooms; hammers and … like a workshop or a garage,” says Logan McCarty , director of physical sciences education and one of the instructors who designed the new space. “If students are …
Issue: May-June 2014
We Can Do Better
… It’s official. The “surge” of unaccompanied minors from Central America is a … “temporary protection” to those fleeing humanitarian crises, recognizing the compassionate obligation to save …
Allston Home for A.R.T. Approved
… center and residential apartment building were approved by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board on November 16. Construction of the 70,000-square-foot David E. [’93] and Stacey L. Goel … the Science Engineering Complex, and the emerging Enterprise Research Campus , all within the existing robust arts …
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
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
"Harvard" Square
… In search of caffeine for an all-night rendezvous with a term paper, the undergraduate passed Elsie's Famous Sandwiches, where he … * Three hundred and fifty Quad residents were recently surprised to learn that they no longer lived in North House. 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 …
Poetry, Architecture, and Dance, Combined
… In one scene, the pitch-black auditorium reverberates with the desolate sound of a droning sonar—and nothing else. In another, headphoned … original cast member of One Flat Thing , said she was surprised her Harvard students were able to create such a …
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 …