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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
Embodying Access
… After spending more than two decades in the financial-services industry, Cynthia A. Torres ’80, … improving access to college through educating a clientele of mostly middle-class families about admissions and … and grew up in urban Los Angeles,” says the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). “My Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2014
Humanities Medals to Higginbotham, Fly
… Thomas professor of history and of African and African American studies … and preservationist Everett L. Fly , who in 1977 became the first African American to earn a master of landscape architecture degree from the Graduate School of Design (GSD), are among the 10 …
Jill Abramson to Teach at Harvard
… ’76 will come to Harvard as a visiting lecturer for the 2014-2015 academic year, teaching undergraduate courses on narrative nonfiction in the Department of English. “I'm honored and excited to be teaching at … academic year,” said Abramson, in Harvard’s announcement of her appointment. “Narrative nonfiction journalism is more …
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
Mosaic for Now
… U nspoken , 10.22.10 - 07.07.11 forgoes the traditional mosaic materials of stone and glass. Instead, “It’s a very personal piece speaking of my [verbal] isolation” following a move from New York …
Issue: January-February 2013
Cambridge 02138
… Unequal Universities I appreciated the useful selections from Charles T. Clotfelder’s extensive … unequal,” November-December 2017, page 50). I was surprised, nonetheless, to find only passing reference to the … support from the states that took the federal grants of land, first authorized by the Morrill Act of 1862, “to …
Issue: January-February 2018
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.” …
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
Task Force Seeks to Enhance Cambridge Campus
… to explore improvements in Harvard’s Cambridge campus, with the aim of making better use of existing spaces to foster faculty-student interaction, …
Title IX at 45
… students once got ready to play basketball or field hockey, they put on uniforms of knee-length skirts or shorts, with tights underneath. … Study in April, coinciding with the forty-fifth anniversary of Title IX’s passage. The exhibit uses Title IX as a lens …
Improvisational Prodigy
… The epiphany came early. Until middle school, Malcolm … jazz today,” Campbell says. In fact, he’s playing a lot of jazz today, and playing it rather well. The Malcolm … day--and those hours fall inside the curriculum. He is part of the third class to enroll in a five-year, joint …
Issue: July-August 2009
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 …
Harvard Treasurer Succession
… The University announced today that Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82 , a member of the Harvard Corporation since 2012, will succeed James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70 , a member of the Corporation since 2004, as treasurer on July 1. …
Are Graduate Students Employees?
… members have access to child-care subsidies worth thousands of dollars per year, while graduate-student parents get … employees enjoy dental care generously subsidized by the University, but grad students must pay the full cost of their own. These are some of the concerns that graduate …