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Honoris Causa
… Commencement. University provost Alan M. Garber introduced the honorands in the following order, and President Drew … . Wallace S. Broecker. Newbury professor of geology at Columbia, popularly credited with coining the …
Issue: July-August 2015
Online Evolution
… HarvardX and other institutions continue to create new massive open online … at harvardx.harvard.edu/modules-courses). But with hundreds of offerings available on edX, Coursera, and emerging … rather than earlier-stage learners. This is less a surprise (given the course requirements) than a useful reminder …
Issue: September-October 2014
New EPA Administrator Gives Inaugural Speech at Harvard Law School
… Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy affirmed the Obama administration’s commitment to fighting climate … at Harvard Law School, cited past EPA successes as part of a broader argument that measures to control climate change are a necessary part of a “sound economic and global agenda.” Climate change was …
Harvard Divinity School Receives Christian Studies Endowment
… James R. Swartz ’64, have donated $10 million to establish the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies, in support of new professorships, fellowships, and educational programs. The …
Existence as Resistance
… “Guess who was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century.” … African and African-American Studies, prepares for the surprise on my face. As it turns out, the answer is Frederick …
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
Seeing Further
… R esearch universities change the world by taking the long view. Consider recombinant DNA. Fifty years ago, the possibility of manipulating and editing the building blocks of life had just been realized in laboratories devoted to …
Issue: November-December 2021
University People
… Sisler Photograph by Stu Rosner William P. Sisler, director of Harvard University Press since 1990, will retire at the end of the academic year. His tenure saw the publication of …
Issue: March-April 2017
A Better Way to Amputate
… Today’s state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs are scientific marvels, designed … neural and muscular signals, to give users the possibility of greater function and control. But amputation techniques …
Issue: September-October 2017
Faust Issues Statement on Occupy Harvard
… , as access to Harvard Yard remained restricted due to the presence of the Occupy Harvard protest's tent city, President Drew … a Harvard ID from entering the Yard based on the behavior of demonstrators on November 9, when the protest began …
“Service Starts with Summer”
… history, he said, “Since Harvard’s founding in 1636, the people educated here have responded patriotically to the call to service.” In light of current, challenging circumstances—for society, and for the perception of universities’ role within it—he continued: We need to …
A Delicate Power
… India and raised in Paris, Shantala Shivalingappa is among the world’s best practitioners of Kuchipudi, a classical narrative dance from South India … rarely performed in Boston. “It is so complete,” she says of the form. “It has force and grace, strength and fluidity, …
Issue: January-February 2015
Harry R. Lewis Named Interim Engineering Dean [Updated]
… Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael D. Smith today announced that Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay professor of computer science and director of undergraduate … for computer science , will serve as interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), …
Aloian Memorial Scholars
… The Harvard Alumni Association has named Sofia Cigarroa Kennedy ’19, of Austin, Texas, and KeeHup Arie Yong ’19, of Vine Grove, …
Issue: September-October 2018
Studying a Gut Reaction
… our bodies for free. More than a trillion bacteria live in the human gut and chemically alter the molecules people … Koppel, Ph.D. ’18, and Vayu Rekdal, A.M ’17, reveal some of the beneficial and dangerous chemical reactions caused by … a Science review published today—“Chemical transformation of xenobiotics by the human gut microbiota.” Their research …