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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: …
News Briefs
… Faculty-Dean Denouement During the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on May 7, … where student protesters had loudly sought the ouster of their faculty deans, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. (who had …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Issue: July-August 2019
Mystery Solved
… The architectural views above are displayed in the fourth-floor bedroom corridor at the Harvard Club of New York City. They have been there since 1915, and for … might be. Its architect was Louis Christian Mullgardt, officially a member of the class of 1893, although he took …
Issue: July-August 2015
Wood into Art
… A music stand of East Indian rosewood, with maple laminated veneers curved … clef, stands rooted in a solid base so that it leans toward the musician with assurance. It expresses the remarkable integration of art and utility in the one-of-a-kind pieces by furniture …
Issue: January-February 2015
Brevia
… and searches for senior University appointees, among other responsibilities. Rosovsky (above) returns to Harvard from the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts, where she has been executive … she was previously involved in development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and then in senior …
Issue: January-February 2013
Brevia
… Journalism’s Decline What befell the print news media during the digital transition? John Huey, former editor in chief of Time Inc.; Martin Nisenholtz, former senior vice president of digital operations at The New York Times Company; and …
Issue: November-December 2013
Staff Pick: A.R.T.’s WILD: A Musical Becoming
… Planning for a season of live performances, American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) has taken on the Anthropocene. WILD: A … January 2) is a fable centered on a struggling single mom offered a deal to lease land on her family farm to energy …
Issue: November-December 2021
FAS Dean Michael D. Smith to Step Down
… Michael D. Smith will step down from his post as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) after 11 years in the role, he …
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
… Stephanopoulos was a second-year law student at Yale when the Supreme Court ruled—unsatisfactorily, he believed—on the … Congressional districts and left unresolved the question of whether the courts should have a say in political … gerrymandering. For Stephanopoulos, now Kirkland & Ellis professor of law, the case was a game-changer: election law, …
Issue: September-October 2021
Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street
… If research is essential to fiction, then the new thriller Top Producer by Norb Vonnegut ’80, … adviser to wealthy clients. “I didn’t start with the idea of writing a mystery,” he says. “I just tried to tell the … Ocean Tank filled with live sea creatures. At the height of the festivities, Charlie momentarily disappears, and is …
Issue: November-December 2009
Brevia
… Nobel Duo Harvard scholars received the highest accolades this October, when Farber professor of medicine William Kaelin was announced as … seeking to create the first, 14-acre phase of the Enterprise Research Campus on Western Avenue from nine to three, …
Issue: January-February 2020
Harvard Human-Behavior Initiative Funded
… The University announced today that the Pershing Square … by Bill (William A.) Ackman ’88, M.B.A.’92, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, and Karen Ackman, … Square Foundation has supported social investment enterprises aiming to alleviate rural poverty in Latin America and …
Statistics, No Lies
… Commander John R. H. Callaway of the United States Navy, M.P.A. ’07, has sent Primus the … conversations when someone questioned the veracity of a particular assertion of his. It always seemed an odd …
Issue: March-April 2013
University People
… Interim Ed Dean Thompson professor of education and society Richard J. Murnane has been … School of Education’s acting dean, effective July 1. He is the interim successor to Kathleen McCartney, who departs to … of worry and vulnerability for the school’s research enterprise. So it was heartening that six of 27 investigator …
Issue: July-August 2013
Crimson Ties
… decided it was time to go to sleep—having been up since the day before. Although I have pulled my fair share of all-nighters to finish assignments, this time I had stayed up talking with one of my roommates. My roommates and I have shared many late …
Issue: July-August 2010