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Endowment Indicators
… What might the University expect when Harvard Management Company (HMC) … Jane L. Mendillo, HMC’s president and chief executive officer, earlier revealed that she will step down at the end of 2014 , and Paul J. Finnegan recently became Harvard’s …
Audience Response
… 47 when he had an epiphany: No critical comment from a professor could possibly be as instructive to an infant dramatist as the experience of staging a play and hearing, reading, rejoicing in, or …
Issue: November-December 2006
From Borneo to Rodeo
… D erring-do. Peter Ashton, a pioneer in the study of Asian tropical forests—particularly of the towering dipterocarps that dominated the canopy he …
Issue: January-February 2020
A Giant's Gift
… G ’37, LL.D. ’69, has made a $100-million gift to Harvard, the largest by an alumnus in University history. Reflecting the convergence of his own lifelong interests and current Harvard … arts—particularly engagement with visual arts, in the form of the Harvard Art Museum’s new study centers that will be …
Issue: July-August 2008
An Obligation to Dignity
… fluttering.” That’s how Reginald Dwayne Betts, speaking at the Graduate School of Design on Tuesday evening, described the underground … the concrete floor. A poet, lawyer, and educator—and, as of last week, a 2021 MacArthur Fellow—Betts delivered this …
Brevia
… From Dean to Doctor Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of Harvard Medical School since 2007, announced in November—a year after launching the school’s $750-million capital campaign—that he would … that will face a reconfigured public open space; less of the outdoor Forbes Plaza will be enclosed than under …
Issue: January-February 2016
Harvard Researchers Seek to Create Specialized Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
… Scientists at Harvard and the affiliated Children's Hospital Boston today announced … stem-cell lines for research. For more, see the news releases from the Harvard University Gazette and Children's Hospital . … …
New Direction
… year." Kelly, a tall woman dressed that day in an outfit of flaming coral, is, arguably, the furthest thing from that long-standing Harvard … woman to head the HAA, and her pointed comments reflect one of her top priorities: to reach out to minority--and …
Issue: September-October 2001
Reform School
… The decades before and after the turn of the twentieth century have been called the Gilded Age, the Age of Innocence, the Age of Excess, the Progressive Era, and …
Issue: September-October 2012
Hiram S. Hunn Awards
… Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for their volunteer efforts …
Issue: November-December 2017
Should Convicted Felons Serve on Juries?
… be allowed to serve on juries, sitting in judgment on their fellow citizens? On June 2, Premal Dharia, inaugural director of Harvard Law School’s Institute to End Mass Incarceration, … goes back to slavery, it goes back to when juries were comprised of all white men in order to convict black men.” …
Cambridge 02138
… SEGREGATION, NOW AND THEN I enjoyed Drew Gilpin Faust's delightful " Living … that anywhere teachers in classes with a high proportion of black and Hispanic students are as qualified and … experienced as teachers in classes with high proportions of white and Asian students in the same school district. In …
Issue: July-August 2003
New Complaints Filed against “Baby Apps”
… The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), … marketed as educational by toymaker Fisher-Price and software developer Open Solutions, according to yesterday’s … “as an activist response to the rapidly escalating problem of commercialism encroaching on the lives of children.” …
Football: Harvard 31, Georgetown 17
… “The game was not as close as the score might indicate.” The most extreme case of this often jocular athletics adage occurred this past Friday …
Joanna Aizenberg
… When Joanna Aizenberg looks at the skeleton of a sea sponge lying on her desk, she sees … 1,000 times smaller.” Aizenberg, who is Gordon McKay professor of materials science and Susan S. and Kenneth L. …
Issue: July-August 2008