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"Open to Difference"
… Toba Spitzer A few generations ago, no matter how strong their callings, Toba Spitzer ’86, Jennifer (Kirsch) Flatté … Sally Priesand, finally ordained. (Today nearly one-third of the rabbis working in the United States are female.) A closer look at these alumnae and their perspectives offers insight into just how diverse and complex their …
Issue: September-October 2008
The Enterprise Research Campus, Part Two
… Tishman Speyer, the development partner that is building an Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston on property leased … from Harvard, took the first step toward construction of the second phase (phase B) of that project on April 16. …
Bacow on Biden’s Agenda, Harvard Policing
… In a flurry of activity just before Harvard begins its extended winter … more welcoming to international students and scholars after the Trump administration’s sweeping restrictions. … Separately, he also introduced the external review of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) …
Bacteria That Fight Malaria
… Harvard scientists have made a discovery that could lead the way to a new strategy for preventing malaria. … Researchers led by Flaminia Catteruccia , associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. …
Winter Wonders
… became NCAA national indoor high jump champion with a leap of 1.94 meters (6 feet, 4 1/2 inches). The previous week she tied the NCAA record with a 1.97-meter … to eliminate the Crimson from the ECAC tournament. In a surprise move, the American Women’s College Hockey Alliance did …
Yesterday’s News
… 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt, A.B. 1880, in town to see his son, … produce students,” he tells them. “The college man, the man of intellect and training, should take the lead in every … 1922 Acknowledging the geographical dispersion of Harvard men, the Board of Overseers and the Corporation …
Issue: January-February 2022
A Sportive Spring
… Softball The softballers (19-21, 11-1 Ivy) tore through the Ivy competition to win the league title easily. Seven …
Harvard Returns to Normal This Fall
… Harvard has announced that the University will essentially return to normal for the … faculty, and staff from President Lawrence Bacow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Claudine Gay, Harvard College dean Rakesh Khurana, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) dean Emma Dench. The letter …
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Priscilla Chan Grants $12 Million for Public Service
… and CEO, as he finally got his Harvard degree and delivered the address at the Commencement afternoon exercises last … (CZI) has made a $12.1-million, 15-year grant in support of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), with which she … Field public-housing projects. (She visited members of the Franklin Hill community yesterday, as shown in the …
Genomic Engineering Hits Its Mark
… and clinicians who seek to study, or even alter, the course of disease. In a lecture last week at Harvard … (HMS), J. Keith Joung ’87, M.D.-Ph.D. ’96, associate chief of pathology for research at Massachusetts General Hospital …
A Life's Study
… is a lifelong process. Whatever our past experience of formal schooling, many of us have learned how useful--and how revitalizing--further education can be. In the form of mid-career programs, …
Space Matters
… Academic staff members across the University who plan and design teaching spaces gathered for a week of discussion and site visits to exchange ideas on how to … Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT), included tours of innovative learning spaces across campus, including a …
Undergraduate Architectural Studies Track Begins in Fall
… this fall, for the first time, undergraduates inspired by I.M. Pei , … will have a chance to study at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), and possibly start earning graduate credit as early as their senior year. Harvard’s department of history of art and architecture and the GSD have …
Chapter & Verse
… is to painting as water is to wine? ~Who protested, “They have taken away all our liberties—now they have given … wording for military advice allegedly given by the Duke of Wellington to a young subaltern: “Eat, sleep, and … “mediocre” (March-April). Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations (see “ Harvard in Epigram ,” …
Issue: May-June 2007
Harvard College Investigates Student Academic Misconduct
… it is formally investigating allegations that “nearly half the students” in a spring 2012 course “may have … freshmen settle in on campus and just before the beginning of fall classes on September 4—is being treated as a very serious violation, on an unprecedented scale, of the institution’s norms of academic integrity: …