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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 …
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
Radcliffe Panel Focuses on Law and Social Change
… should laws merely respond to social change? Alumnae from the fields of journalism, academia, and, naturally, law took up this … to a law: Title IX, passed in 1972, forbade the exclusion of women from education programs and activities receiving …
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
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
An Astronomer's Desert Photography
… At twilight, the bulbous hoodoos and sculpted plateaus of the Sonoran … Those two-dimensional moments fell on either side of his nights spent observing stars at Tucson’s Kitt Peak …
Issue: July-August 2022
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
"Launched into Eternity"
… Image courtesy of Harvard Law School Image courtesy of Harvard Law School True-crime fans, rejoice! A new … Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library” may be found at …
Issue: September-October 2008
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
“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
Noah Harris, Senior English Address
… The Caged Bird Sings “I know why the caged bird sings,” … my voice would never feel caged again. The caged bird sings of hope . Most forms of confinement are not as manageable as shyness. I think of …
Scoring Moves
… In track, sprinters kick off their starting blocks with all their might, springing … an emphatic dunk is invariably preceded by an emphatic push off the floor. But athletes don’t have the advantage of a …
Issue: November-December 2022
Brevia
… not confer honorary degrees in absentia, or post mortem. The degree conferred on Gleason professor of fine arts emeritus and Cabot founding director of the …
Issue: September-October 2014
"You Keep Going"
… graduation. "Oh, I've been researching brain injuries for the last several years," Mee told him. "It's interesting … recovering from a stroke that stole about 70 percent of the left side of his brain. It happened in 1982 when Mee, a strapping …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Ric Zimmerman ’68
… In normal times , the Harvard football team and its hardy followers would be … final-play heartbreaker for Harvard at the Stadium. Instead of dwelling on such misfortune, let us recall another … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …