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Women’s Rugby Becomes Harvard’s 42nd Varsity Sport
… sport —will become a varsity sports program, beginning in the 2013-2014 academic year. According to the University announcement, that will increase the number of Harvard varsity sports for women to 21 and the total number of varsity programs to 42—in both cases, the largest number …
Twice, with Alacrity
… I am,” she says. “So people think I’m five-one.” Whatever the reason, it’s a mistake to underestimate her stature, … fall, the Ivy League unanimously named Baskind its Player of the Year in women’s soccer after a season in which the … Baskind is a full-blooded athlete. Her Quincy House suite of 12 roommates includes nine varsity players plus an …
Issue: March-April 2012
Christine Lagarde to Speak at Kennedy School
… The first woman to lead the International Monetary Fund … "It is not a crisis that will be resolved by one group of countries taking action. It is going to be hopefully … resolved by all countries, all regions, all categories of countries actually taking some action." A noted antitrust …
Harvard and Life Sciences Partners to Build a Center for Biological Therapies
… A Harvard-led consortium of Boston-area healthcare, biotech, and biopharma … institutions will open a $50-million nonprofit facility for the development of cell- and gene-based therapies, the … to open it by the end of 2021. One side of it will comprise cleanrooms for manufacturing therapies for clinical …
Harvard Medical School Dean Flier to Step Down
… Jeffrey S. Flier , dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 2007 , today announced … on July 31. Flier, an endocrinologist who specialized in the causes of obesity and diabetes, wrote a brief note to his …
Going Global, Gradually
… The mid October announcement of Harvard Global Institute … itself as the world’s largest commercial real-estate enterprise (among other lines of business). (See the company … research program, or region; cross-disciplinary work arises only by chance. For the most complex problems that …
Six Harvard Students Win Rhodes Scholarships
… The Rhodes Trust announced on November 23 that six … Broad Labs, as well as at the Center for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa. She plans to earn a master’s of science in applied statistics. Concentrating in …
Disrupting Harvard?
… Could the new learning technologies , combined with new higher … on the other hand, fits squarely into a description of a luxury service whose value is derived from the fact that it only serves a limited few. But the process of disruptive innovation has spelled the decline of many …
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Issue: July-August 2011
Chapter and Verse
… are you to tell me I am wrong? I am not wrong.” He was told the author was D.H. Lawrence, but has not been able to … 2009). James Finkelstein sent an earlier statement of the principle, from William Harvey’s Letter to John … her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there …
Issue: May-June 2010
About Harvard Magazine
… and is published today by a separately incorporated nonprofit affiliate of Harvard University. As an independent … with readers’ interests foremost in mind. That is to say, the magazine is not published with the aim of promoting … , like its ancestral Bulletin , is a nonprofit enterprise incorporated under Massachusetts law and directed by …
Set to Search
… The Harvard Corporation has begun the search for the … L. Rudenstine. In mid July, it announced the membership of the search committee and outlined initial steps the committee would take to solicit both nominees and views of the University's future. Under Harvard's charter, the …
New Harvard Overseers and HAA Directors
… The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and of the new elected directors … Angeles. Bedrosian chair in governance and the public enterprise; director, Bedrosian Center on Governance, Price School …
Some Classical Profanity
… A glance at the 50 most popular volumes in the Loeb Classical Library--the venerable series of facing-page English translations of Greek and Latin classics now published by Harvard …
“No Pressure or Anything, but We’re Counting on You”
… Designers have the answers to “the most important question we all face,” … TED curator Chris Anderson told imminent Graduate School of Design graduates on Wednesday. “Can the coming world of 10 billion people survive and flourish without consuming …
Nixon in China Creators Re-create
… The three Harvard College alumni behind the acclaimed 1987 … Theater on November 15 to discuss the opera as part of Harvard’s yearlong 375 th anniversary celebration , which kicked off with a party in the Yard on October 14. President Drew …