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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 …
HAA Clubs and SIGs Awards
… These honors , awarded at the HAA board of directors’ winter … that have organized exceptional programs. Larry Kahn ’83, of Orlando. An active member of the Harvard Club of Central …
Issue: March-April 2017
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 …
Post-Season’s End
… Sunday afternoon, with a little over three minutes left in their matchup with St. John’s University in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT), the … in Harvard’s opening-round victory at the University of New Hampshire , the freshman floor general had set the …
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
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
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 …
Preparing for a Profession
… especially ambitious students enrolling for a Harvard professional education could have begun work simultaneously on their M.B.A., J.D., and Ed.M. degrees while the University … and valuation—the basic language for understanding an enterprise’s performance and status. By one estimate, serious …
Issue: January-February 2020
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
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
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
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
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 …
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 …
Football 2021: Dartmouth 20, Harvard 17
… Halloween weekend was an appropriate time for the Harvard football team to continue its two-season Danse Macabre of close and excruciating defeat. This time, at least, the … Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens. “When you get into the meat of our schedule, it’s the thinnest of margins,” said Murphy …