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Passover Story
… ’46, J.D. ’48. One day in 1996, as he was sorting his father’s papers in the attic of the family summer home, a pamphlet fell to the floor at … a text for the Passover Seder, but it bore the insignia of the U.S. Third Army and had an unusual place and date on …
Faust and Khurana Condemn DACA Elimination
… In a message to the University community today, President Drew Faust condemned the announced elimination of Deferral for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama-era … least a few dozen Harvard students. “Today’s announcement of the elimination, in six months, of [DACA] represents a …
Cornucopias in Paint
… It’s the most unlikely of galleries—a concrete retaining wall in the shadow of Interstate 93, just outside Boston. But David Fichter ’73 …
Issue: September-October 2011
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 …
Science and Harvard: Collaborations and Transformations
… In May , I had the pleasure of announcing that Hansjörg Wyss had followed … for Biologically Inspired Engineering with a second gift of $125 million to launch the next phase of its growth. In …
Issue: July-August 2013
Messy Questions, Messy Answers
… Some questions reveal more in the asking than in the answering. As I ranted about the impracticalities of unpaid internships, a friend interrupted, “Can you be on … Services for more than 13 years, she looked equally surprised: “No one has ever asked me that before.” Even my …
Issue: July-August 2011
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
New Curator Named for Nieman Foundation
… announced today that Ann Marie Lipinski will become curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism , succeeding Bob Giles, … plans to retire last fall . Lipinski, who served as editor of the Chicago Tribune for more than seven years, shared a …
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
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
Relational Lens
… For Geoffrey Biddle ’72, photography has been a way of earning a living, practicing an art, and understanding his family. Or rather, families: Biddle has had two marriages and fathered …
Issue: July-August 2014
A New Plant to Enhance Memory
… A plant that grows in higher-altitude regions of the Northern Hemisphere has memory-enhancing effects across … to findings published today in Science Advances. A group of 23 researchers report that root material from Rhodiola …
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
Humor, Too
… Commencement oratory and the conferring of degrees are not all spinach. Phoebe Lakin … ’18, the Latin Salutatorian, had the wit to draw upon one of the great Harvard graduation moments: J.K. Rowling’s …
Issue: July-August 2018
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 …