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… Speakers of Note The speaker at the Commencement afternoon exercises, on May … directors of business development and of social enterprise, each carrying the University salary range of $72,900 …
Issue: May-June 2017
President Bacow’s Harvard Baccalaureate Remarks
… Good afternoon, members of the Class of 2021, soon-to-be alumni of Harvard College. The role of …
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 …
Commencement Confetti
… Class Honorand John P. “Jack” Reardon, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association since 1990 (and earlier, in a … to commission a formal portrait. When they sprang the surprise on Reardon at a formal class gathering on Monday …
Issue: July-August 2010
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
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
Celebrating Harvard Square’s Newest Performance Space
… performance venue, Arrow Street Arts (ASA), celebrates its official opening on April 1 with Boston Opera Collective's production of La Tragédie de Carmen (April 4-7). ASA is a combined black box theater and street-side studio that replaced the American …
Issue: March-April 2024
Fiction in Counterpoint
… In 2005, while waiting to pay in the Bob Slate stationery store in Harvard Square, Thomas P. … later, the doodling has evolved into Wolf’s first work of fiction, the recent novel Sound, published under the pen … on radios (especially hip-hop), play-by-play broadcasts of New York Yankees baseball games, and characters’ unspoken …
Issue: September-October 2012
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 …
Langdell Remodels, Tomes in Transit
… in Langdell Hall in preparation for a major remodeling of the building. "We had to decide whether to remodel piecemeal … or all at once," says Harry Martin, librarian and professor of law. "Piecemeal would have taken four years and …
Mentoring and Moral Experience
… On March 4 , Kolokotrones University Professor Paul Farmer, Ph.D.-M.D. ’90, and Jim Yong Kim, M.D. ’86, G ’91, president of Dartmouth College (where he is also professor of … dinner honoring Arthur Kleinman on his seventieth birthday. The many-hatted Kleinman—Rabb professor of anthropology, …
Issue: July-August 2011
More than Skin Deep
… Lockwood Heffernan ’02, Ph.D. ’07, lived out any new mother’s dream: she spent a few days at The Spa at Norwich Inn. There, in the depth of New England’s snowy January, she swam in a warm, … with a pedicure.” Meanwhile, her husband took advantage of the fitness center and reveled in a back massage. “There …
Issue: March-April 2014
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
Town-Hall Meetings Report on Harvard Library Reorganization
… The changing information landscape makes change at Harvard … preeminent academic research library—inevitable. As part of the Harvard Library’s ongoing transition to a new … on Thursday, January 19. (The Library has released an official transcript of the presentation .) In their …
First-Gen Orientation
… President Lawrence Bacow welcomed his first group of Harvard undergraduates, about 100 participants in the new First-Year Retreat and Experience (FYRE) , a … their own stories of success, failure, challenge, and surprise during college. One theme that resonated across all of …