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… Journalism’s Decline What befell the print news media during the digital transition? John Huey, former editor in chief of Time Inc.; Martin Nisenholtz, former senior vice president of digital operations at The New York Times Company; and …
Issue: November-December 2013
Brevia
… and searches for senior University appointees, among other responsibilities. Rosovsky (above) returns to Harvard from the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts, where she has been executive … she was previously involved in development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and then in senior …
Issue: January-February 2013
Contending with Long Covid
… At the forefront of efforts to demystify the opaque condition known as “long-COVID,” which saddles some survivors of the SARS CoV-2 virus with a slew of unpleasant and …
Relax, It’s Just 32,000 People
… In one week , the three Commencement student orators will deliver their … empty Fong Auditorium. As they perform, Erika Bailey, one of the two coaches for this year’s speakers, takes notes on … which Bailey—a lecturer on Theater, Dance, and Media and professional voice coach for the American Repertory Theater—is …
Harvard Scientists’ Leadership in Fighting Infectious Diseases
… Castle professor of medicine Dan Barouch , who runs Beth Israel Deaconess … and Vaccine research, has been awarded $24.5 million during the next five years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help find a cure …
Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street
… If research is essential to fiction, then the new thriller Top Producer by Norb Vonnegut ’80, … adviser to wealthy clients. “I didn’t start with the idea of writing a mystery,” he says. “I just tried to tell the … Ocean Tank filled with live sea creatures. At the height of the festivities, Charlie momentarily disappears, and is …
Issue: November-December 2009
Harvard Human-Behavior Initiative Funded
… The University announced today that the Pershing Square … by Bill (William A.) Ackman ’88, M.B.A.’92, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, and Karen Ackman, … Square Foundation has supported social investment enterprises aiming to alleviate rural poverty in Latin America and …
Statistics, No Lies
… Commander John R. H. Callaway of the United States Navy, M.P.A. ’07, has sent Primus the … conversations when someone questioned the veracity of a particular assertion of his. It always seemed an odd …
Issue: March-April 2013
University People
… Interim Ed Dean Thompson professor of education and society Richard J. Murnane has been … School of Education’s acting dean, effective July 1. He is the interim successor to Kathleen McCartney, who departs to … of worry and vulnerability for the school’s research enterprise. So it was heartening that six of 27 investigator …
Issue: July-August 2013
Crimson Ties
… decided it was time to go to sleep—having been up since the day before. Although I have pulled my fair share of all-nighters to finish assignments, this time I had stayed up talking with one of my roommates. My roommates and I have shared many late …
Issue: July-August 2010
Brevia
… Her Honor, Honored The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L ’59, LL.D. ’11, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, returns to campus to receive the … Samuel Tak Lee, of the Hong Kong-based Prudential Enterprise, an international developer. The funds will support a …
Issue: March-April 2015
Science and (Bad) Cooking
… I’m the Rachel Ray of microwaving, able to estimate cooking … songs blasting in the background. I was pleasantly surprised to find my chicken came out somewhat moist. Those moments of pleasant surprise were rare over the two months I spent in the course. …
How Will Harvard Change Post-Coronavirus?
… By the time you read this column, students and faculty and … in higher education, challenges Harvard to take advantage of the times.) Scanning the terrain, alterations small and … by Harvard President James Bryant Conant, in pursuit of his egalitarian, meritocratic admissions agenda) may be …
Issue: September-October 2021
Jill Abramson to Teach at Harvard
… ’76 will come to Harvard as a visiting lecturer for the 2014-2015 academic year, teaching undergraduate courses on narrative nonfiction in the Department of English. “I'm honored and excited to be teaching at … academic year,” said Abramson, in Harvard’s announcement of her appointment. “Narrative nonfiction journalism is more …
Harvard Portrait: Catherine Brekus
… “Let your women keep silence in the churches,” declares Paul in Corinthians 14:34. Catherine Brekus ’85 specializes in hearing the voices of America’s early female religious leaders, nearly lost to history—a casualty of neglect, or sometimes a more deliberate excision from the …
Issue: September-October 2015