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Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2022-23 academic year. Jack Swanson, of Currier House, a government concentrator, will be the … de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College. Sorcha Ashe, of Kirkland House, an integrative biology concentrator, will …
Issue: July-August 2022
First-Gen Orientation
… President Lawrence Bacow welcomed his first group of Harvard undergraduates, about 100 participants in the new First-Year Retreat and Experience (FYRE) , a … their own stories of success, failure, challenge, and surprise during college. One theme that resonated across all of …
Help Wanted
… When undergraduates heard that Dean of the College Harry Lewis '68 was forming a student-faculty … system, a common reaction was, "It's about time." Many of us have complained grumpily-to each other in conversation …
Brevia
… Speakers of Note The speaker at the Commencement afternoon exercises, on May … directors of business development and of social enterprise, each carrying the University salary range of $72,900 …
Issue: May-June 2017
"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 …
No Such Thing as Just a Janitor
… It was Richard Montañez’s many jokes, and the audience’s appreciative, rolling laughter, that made the … Sanders Theatre stage—came deeper, quieter acknowledgements of pain and fear and vulnerability that sharpened the air … Cheetos, the spicy, startlingly red, cult-favorite version of the classic cheesy snack. He is now the executive in …
A Warm Spot
… It’s not immediately clear why Catalyst is so named. The word denotes a strong force effecting root-level, … very good, is not transforming the epicurean landscape of the neighborhood, itself an epicenter of global technology. Chef/owner William Kovel, a New …
Issue: November-December 2013
Al Fresco
… Imagine this: someone other than yourself laboring to prepare fresh Italian food, and serving it with a real smile? The joys of dining out after months of pandemic isolation have never been so welcome: “How do …
Issue: May-June 2021
GSAS Celebrates Harvard Horizons Scholars
… Eight rapid-fire, TED-style talks of five minutes each by Harvard Ph.D. students kicked off the inaugural Harvard Horizons symposium on May 6 in Sanders …
Women in Science, and at Harvard
… from science majors to non-science majors at a rate of...54 percent compared to...39 percent for men. This … school and postdoctoral work. " ~ National Symposium on the Advancement of Women in Science Against this backdrop, the undergraduate …
Extracurriculars
… Seasonal Exhibitions Dance Nature and Science Film Music Theater Seasonal The Farmers Market at Harvard … markets, organized by Harvard University Dining Services, offer fresh produce, herbs, baked goods, and other delights, … 12:30-6 p.m. Outside the Science Center, at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets. In Allston: Wednesdays, 3-7 …
Issue: September-October 2008
Brevia
… House Renewal: Old Leverett Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith announced in … renovation of Old Quincy (scheduled to begin this June), the College’s next pilot project for renewal of all … and veterinary care.” Encouraging Innovation New Enterprise Associates (NEA), a venture-capital fund, is backing …
Issue: March-April 2012
Mentoring and Moral Experience
… On March 4 , Kolokotrones University Professor Paul Farmer, Ph.D.-M.D. ’90, and Jim Yong Kim, M.D. ’86, G ’91, president of Dartmouth College (where he is also professor of … dinner honoring Arthur Kleinman on his seventieth birthday. The many-hatted Kleinman—Rabb professor of anthropology, …
Issue: July-August 2011
Are Graduate Students Employees?
… members have access to child-care subsidies worth thousands of dollars per year, while graduate-student parents get … employees enjoy dental care generously subsidized by the University, but grad students must pay the full cost of their own. These are some of the concerns that graduate …
Football 2022: Holy Cross 30-Harvard 21
… non-league game against a superior team. That, at least, is the theory. But that does not necessarily lessen the sting of Harvard’s 30-21 defeat to Holy Cross of the Patriot League Saturday at the Stadium. The loss, …