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Going Once…Going Twice…Sold!
… Courtesy of Thomaston Auction House A miniature Russian kvosh which … House this summer It’s a summer evening, and a crowd has gathered at the Sandwich Auction House for the weekly Wednesday sale. The windows and doors of the shed building are open wide to catch whatever fresh …
Issue: September-October 2008
A Mystical Poet and An American Novelist
… Donald Revell will be the poet, and Andrea Barrett the orator, at the Phi Beta … (PBK) Literary Exercises—the first formal community event of Commencement week and, in many respects, the intellectual core of the festivities for College seniors and their families. …
Brevia
… Science Center Schematic Harvard planners have introduced the design for the science and engineering complex in Allston , encompassing 586,000 square feet of new construction and repurposed space at 114 Western … proceeds to clean the site and plan for its future “enterprise research campus” along Western Avenue and the Charles …
Issue: November-December 2015
Poet Laura Kasischke and Orator Allen Counter To Speak at Literary Exercises
… The director of The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, professor of neurology S. Allen Counter, and Laura Kasischke, …
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” …
Summer/Steiner Fellowship
… THE SUMMER FELLOWSHIP The Summer Fellowship provides summer … also receiving an introduction to the business aspects of magazine operations. Current Harvard College freshmen, … for publication online and in print. Stories are a mix of assigned subjects and ideas proposed by the fellow and …
Durba Mitra
… vintage Bollywood posters brighten Durba Mitra’s basement office in Boylston Hall, each representing an archetype of the Indian woman: Mughal-e-Azam, a classic film about a …
Issue: September-October 2018
What Counts
… Two sets of figures: 179-20 and 130-90. The first was the February 4 Faculty of Arts and Sciences … to convey, or receive, a coherent picture of the enterprise. That’s unfortunate, given the inherent complexity of …
Issue: May-June 2020
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 …
Old Quincy, Renewed
… chairs, and a brand-new kitchen have transformed the basement, once used for storage, into a community room … during clement weather. Down the corridor there is a state-of-the art videoconferencing classroom with smart boards; on … the first undergraduate residence completely redone. It comprises 165,000 square feet, and is scheduled to close for …
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
Stealthy Attitudes
… ourselves about our prejudices, stereotypes, racial profiles, and ingrained biases. Mahzarin Banaji, Cabot professor of social ethics in the department of psychology and Pforzheimer professor at …
Issue: July-August 2002
Football 2022: Holy Cross 30-Harvard 21
… non-league game against a superior team. That, at least, is the theory. But that does not necessarily lessen the sting of Harvard’s 30-21 defeat to Holy Cross of the Patriot League Saturday at the Stadium. The loss, …
Why I Opted for English
… to study psychology. I had worked in a neuroscience lab for the three previous summers, so applying what I had learned … as a child, and I had always enjoyed the relative peace of an essay compared to the time crunch of an exam. Still, pursuing a concentration where these …
Honor Roll
… Prized Professors From left to right: Stephen Rosen, William Todd … Jeremy Bloxham, and Marc Hauser Kris Snibbe / Harvard News Office The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has recognized four of its …
Issue: July-August 2002