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Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2022-23 academic year. Jack Swanson, of Currier House, a government concentrator, will be the … de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College. Sorcha Ashe, of Kirkland House, an integrative biology concentrator, will …
Issue: July-August 2022
A Senior Makes It Back to Campus
… The first time I moved to Harvard, I stuffed my suitcases … knew I’d never need: glittery lanyards, quill pens, a pack of Big League Chew bubblegum I’d been gifted by a friend as part of a Boston-themed high-school graduation present. My mother …
Extracurriculars
… Special Events http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice 617-496-2222 March 10; March 24; and March 31, at 4 p.m. The 2014 Norton Lectures by Herbie Hancock. The series, “The …
Issue: March-April 2014
Doing His Work
… magna cum laude with a degree in history and literature. He then obtained a master's degree at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and published his first book in 1999, a memoir … from 1999 to 2002. The late Philippe Wamba Courtesy of the Wamba family His family, friends, and classmates have …
Issue: September-October 2004
Kevin Eggan
… Kevin Eggan Photograph by Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Last year Kevin Eggan was a Junior Fellow at Harvard. He met developmental biologist Douglas Melton, of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and the two decided to …
Issue: May-June 2006
Harvard COOP’s Major Makeover
… Taking advantage of the pandemic-induced reduction of activity in Harvard Square, the Harvard Coop has closed its main store to accomplish a …
Chapter & Verse
… seeks a citation for “All science, all religion began with the innovator, the nonconformist, the heretic.” She writes, “In the 1950s, it was on the front cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review with a photo of a sculpture of a hand reaching up.” Thomas Burrows hopes, …
Issue: November-December 2014
Harvard Football Great Performances: Charlie Brickley ’15
… This Saturday the Harvard football team was supposed to be visiting Easton, Pennsylvania, to play Lafayette of the Patriot League. Instead, we will have to fill the … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Cambridge 02138
… Photograph by Jim Harrison Your most recent report on the struggle for a living wage at Harvard ("Wage Wrangling," … us to treat these people as employees. This cuts them out of participation in employee benefits." This is an … [and hence her own] culpability in the exploitation of postdoc labor. Trainee status for postdocs must be …
Issue: September-October 2001
Harvard Medalists 2013
… Botyos Herschbach, Ph.D. ’69—were scheduled to receive the 2013 Harvard Medal for outstanding service to the … May 30th during the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Although illness prevented Coleman from … the first international alumnus to have served as president of the HAA (see “‘Pure Brit’ Finds Second Home at Harvard” …
Medical Educator
… education. Primm currently serves as vice-president of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists and is an associate professor at …
Issue: May-June 2002
Engaging with “Inclusion” at Harvard
… As Harvard and other educational institutions have honed their admissions … recently on “inclusion”: trying to ensure that all members of their more heterogeneous populations actually feel that … in Morning Prayers addresses (most recently, at the opening of this academic year ), among other occasions. Following …
Trimming Truancy
… a measurable impact on student absenteeism from school? The answer is yes. “Reports of the death of mail are greatly exaggerated,” quips Todd Rogers. A …
Issue: May-June 2018
University People
… National Academicians David Laibson Courtesy of David Laibson In a year in which 40 percent of its newly elected members were women, a new high, the National Academy of Sciences announced 100 new members, …
Issue: July-August 2019
Apollo 11, Up Close and Personal
… Fifty years after the first moon landing, it’s still hard to place the importance of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s initial lunar footsteps in the context of human history. There’s the feat itself, but also the …