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Yale Honors Harvardians
… 311th Commencement, and four went to Harvard affiliates. The citations below were read aloud by Yale president Richard C. Levin. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian Robert Darnton ’60, G ’68, … the National Humanities Medal , is a foremost scholar of the history of the book—and a leading advocate of …
Space Architect
… to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center. “We were touring the site,” she remembers, “and a calm voice was explaining that one day, we would be going to Mars. Of course I sent in my résumé for a job opening.” A year … earning a master’s in architecture at Yale, and five years of designing buildings and city planning in Berlin and …
Issue: January-February 2011
Dividing Lines
… These books could not be more timely. In the fifth year of … justice-as-fairness implied by that commitment. Their enterprise is one of ideas, which they hope will influence broader …
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 …
Commencement Confetti
… Harvard: The Burden Addressing seniors on Class Day, Today cohost … show’s executive producer, and Jeff Zucker ’86, president of NBC Universal. Yet Lauer warned the alumni-to-be not to … to pursue "a course that enhances the value my enterprise can create for society over the long term." Rethinking …
Issue: July-August 2009
Getting High at Houghton
… hang out. “Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence in the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library” offers pornographic comics and French erotica, along with glimpses of psychoactive drug use by Thomas De Quincey and Samuel …
Issue: November-December 2017
Lizabeth Cohen Appointed Radcliffe Institute Dean
… Jones professor of American studies Lizabeth Cohen , interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) since last … founding dean before becoming Harvard president, made the announcement this morning. In the news release , Faust …
On Games and Goodwill
… In November , the Harvard men’s basketball team laced up their sneakers, … and played a hard-fought game against Stanford in front of a crowd of more than 7,000 people—and countless others who tuned in …
Issue: January-February 2017
Dining Hall Workers Move Toward Strike Next Week
… Harvard University dining hall workers are about to begin their first major strike in nearly a century, unless a … survive.” The prospective strike follows almost four months of deadlocked negotiations between the University and UNITE … 26, the union that represents 750 HUDS workers. Dozens of workers and students marched in front of Massachusetts …
Points and Shoots
… court,” says Melissa Johnson ’00 ('01). She would know. The former Harvard basketball captain and star recently … player. Her subject, Emily Tay ’08, fits a unique set of labels: basketball star, Burmese American, gay. But … a small group of people engaged in a really intense enterprise that perhaps the rest of the world doesn’t care about,” …
Issue: November-December 2011
Janet Browne
… University College London a year ago to become Aramont professor of the history of science, she first lived in Harvard …
Issue: November-December 2007
Money Can’t Buy Love, But Here’s What Can
… After the shopping buzz around the holiday season fizzles out, … for spoiling their loved ones. But as it turns out, no box of chocolates or bouquet of roses can outweigh the ultimate bliss of time spent …
Does Journalism Still Have a Future?
… Sanders Theatre was more than packed to the brim Tuesday afternoon. The line of students waiting to get into “The Future of News: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era,” sponsored by …
Lake Water
… in October. I am sitting on a wooden bench, looking out At the lake through a tall screen of evergreens, Or rather, looking out across the plane of the lake, Seeing the light shaking upon the water As if …
What Counts
… Two sets of figures: 179-20 and 130-90. The first was the February 4 Faculty of Arts and Sciences … to convey, or receive, a coherent picture of the enterprise. That’s unfortunate, given the inherent complexity of …
Issue: May-June 2020