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Thirty-two Students Removed from Harvard Housing during Fall Semester
… The Harvard Community Council announced today that during … on-campus housing. The council, a non-disciplinary body of College students, staff, and faculty members, received reports of 251 potential violations, with some students cited for …
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 …
Jonathan Service: “Pivoting Perspectives”
… In addition to giving the graduate English address, Jonathan Service received a … me ha namida This was the poem Basho wrote for the occasion of his departure from his home near Edo, the metropolis that … as he sought "to leave behind the cosmopolitan comforts of the city in order to discover the wilds of the north. The …
Health Benefits to Cost 3.8 Percent More
… After several years of significant increases in employee healthcare spending, … (down from last year’s 7 percent increase, and 7.3 percent the previous year). Employees’ monthly premiums will … selecting a popular individual plan would see an increase of 3.8 percent, from $79 to $82 per month; in the highest …
Painting across Cultures
… without skill gives us modern art." If Stoppard is right, then Julia Chen Davidson '05 presents a problem. Her works … in ways that place Davidson at a far remove from trends of the current art world. "I'm not on the cutting edge of what people are doing today," she says. "People are …
Issue: March-April 2005
Medical Pioneer Mary Ellen Avery Has Died
… Mary Ellen Avery, S.D. ’05, Rotch professor of pediatrics emerita, an innovative medical researcher and … each glass ceiling she encountered,” according to the Boston Globe , died on December 4 at the age of 84. In …
Coaches in Classrooms
… more than two dozen varsity coaches attended classes with their athletes from February 4 to February 15, in the inaugural version of Back to School weeks. The brainchild of Andrew Rueb ’95, M.T.S. ’04, assistant coach of men’s …
Harvard Football Great Performances: Barry Wood ’32
… in November —a day which will live in infamy, to employ the phrase made immortal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A.B. … we would pick up the Crimson football story with the kickoff of the 147th season this Saturday against Georgetown. … without games, football correspondent Dick Friedman reprises past Crimson glories: epic plays, players, and …
Stolen Censer Returns to Harvard Art Museums
… played out “like a movie,” according to Homeland Security officials, an eighteenth-century Chinese jadeite tripod … Fogg Art Museum in 1979 has been formally returned to the University. At a ceremony at Hoffman Laboratories today, representatives from U.S. …
New Ancient Sculpture
… From the windows in his studio, sculptor James Dinerstein ’69 can … and heft. Beckoning (2008), for example, near the back of the room, gestures dramatically in three or four … its pale, ghostly form composed almost entirely of concrete. An older piece, Solitary Figure (1995), cast in …
Issue: May-June 2010
Many Lasers from One
… laser is supposed to emit a tight monochromatic beam of coherent light. That’s the common view. But Wallace professor of applied physics Federico Capasso and postdoctoral …
Issue: March-April 2010
An Honorand’s Passing
… Harvard’s Gleason professor of fine arts emeritus and Cabot founding director of the Harvard University Art Museums emeritus Seymour Slive …
Stubborn Theorems
… find a bustling television crew chatting with a prominent mathematics scholar. The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI), a … novelty, though board members say it's the only institute of its kind. Rather, the attention stems from an intriguing contest: CMI has offered $1 million rewards for the solutions to seven …
Unmarried, Together
… Growing up, Brian Newmark ’72 looked at his parents and their married friends and thought “something was missing.” … serious, long-term adult relationships and the raising of his now 22-year-old daughter. He and his current partner, … but still have no plans to tie the knot. “One of the nice things about getting old is that it is very …
Issue: March-April 2009
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 …