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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 …
Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open
… interdisciplinary center for creativity and innovation on the University’s Allston campus, is undergoing “final … inaugural director is contemporary art curator and arts professional Bree Edwards, who has served as the director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Arts. The …
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… “Never relinquish the feeling of your first day at Harvard, or when spring at … acquire, finance, and eventually cash out of their enterprises.” He is currently finishing a two-year term as …
Issue: September-October 2012
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 …
E-mail Privacy Policy Committee Begins Work
… During the disclosure on April 2 that e-mail accounts of a resident … executive dean for administration, HMS John Gregory Morrisett, Cutting professor of computer science, School of …
News Briefs
… Giving Guidance In the wake of the “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal (which … it with The Harvard Gazette , Provost Alan Garber, chair of the University gift policy committee (the referee for …
Issue: September-October 2020
Cambridge 02138
… Contemporary Cuba Thank you for the customarily thoughtful piece by Jorge Domínguez on … Cuban economy is to increase agricultural production. One of the most fertile countries on the planet now imports … undermining the dominance of the state in other enterprises? Until that puzzle is solved, the pollo in your arroz …
Issue: September-October 2009
Zen Brains
… join physical exercise on Americans’ to-do lists and among their doctors’ recommendations. So says a team of researchers whose findings suggest that meditation prevents age-related thinning in parts of the brain. In recent decades, many scientific studies …
Issue: May-June 2006
Maria A. Ressa, LL.D. ’24, Harvard Commencement Address 2024
… President Gay, who called me last year to extend this offer. It’s an incredible honor to address the distinguished Harvard faculty, the mysterious Harvard … far and close to be here with you today. But wait. Most of all, despite everything, because you worked really hard, …
Masterpiece Pieces
… Scholars at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies on the outskirts of Florence, Italy, gather for after-lunch coffee in the salone (below). There they are overseen by, …
Issue: November-December 2009
Death Throes
… Fifty years ago , American support for the death penalty was as low as it has ever been: more … it. Violent crime in the country was low. The number of executions annually was a small fraction of the historical peak in the 1930s. These conditions set …
Issue: November-December 2016
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
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
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
Afghanistan Will Be What It Always Was
… Saturday morning I awoke to hear that Qalat, the capital of Zabul Province, had fallen to the Taliban. It surprised me, only because I would have expected Qalat to just …