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Hiram Hunn Awards
… Carr-Stewart John S. Higgins Jr. Barbara Long Lidija Ortloff Maria Patterson Nicholas C. Taylor Seven alumni are to … Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards, presented by the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. … any of his candidates would be admitted, Bowie was surprised when his first one got in. From that moment, he “was …
Issue: September-October 2009
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
Alan Jenkins
… Harvard Law School professor of practice Alan Jenkins ’85, J.D. ’89, first mentions his … quickly moves on to his grandparents’. One pair moved to the United States from the Bahamas, the other from Georgia …
Issue: March-April 2020
Combatants
… On the morning of July 21, 1918, a German submarine surfaced three miles off Nauset Beach in Orleans, on Cape Cod, and attacked an unarmed tugboat towing four barges. Shells from the sub’s deck guns sank three of the barges and set the tug …
Issue: November-December 2014
Alumnus Robert B. Wilson and Paul Milgrom Share 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics
… Stanford doctoral student Paul R. Milgrom have been awarded the 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” Wilson is Adams Distinguished …
“My Name is Bono, and I Am A Rock Star”
… Graduating seniors chose U2 lead singer Bono to give their Class Day address. Born Paul Hewson, he allegedly … from Bono Vox, bad Latin for "good voice." He spoke of how he reached a new personal level of "unhip." Excerpts follow. Bono Photograph by Jim …
A Long Way from Longwood
… Joseph B. Martin, dean of Harvard Medical School (HMS) from 1997 to 2007 and now Lefler professor of neurobiology, has written a memoir of Crimson interest on several levels. The title, Alfalfa to Ivy, refers to Martin’s journey from …
Issue: March-April 2012
Urbane Yet Casual
… Audubon Circle , named for its location at the quiet end of Kenmore Square, is a comfortable mix: a … that is all the more inviting thanks to the friendly warmth of its staff. The kitchen is open all day, and prices range …
Issue: March-April 2012
Harvard Talking
… Divining that Yale students spend a lot of time taking tourists around their campus in New Haven, a group of Harvard young bloods headed south last fall to help out. …
Issue: July-August 2014
Staff Pick: Boston Book Festival
… This year, instead of drawing 30,000 people for a wild weekend of in-person literary immersion, the annual Boston Book Festival will spread mostly online …
Issue: September-October 2020
Justice for All
… How do leaders of countries emerging from civil war, political repression, … religious violence, or economic collapse come to terms with the past and create a viable future? Harvard's newest … solutions. Leaders can use these to prepare for--or avoid--crises." "Harvard's Project on Justice is trusted and …
What Crimson Means to Me
… would be easier to do so than listen to him badger me for the remainder of the year. I applied without visiting, and was surprised to receive a thick envelope the following spring. I …
Issue: July-August 2003
Harvard Commencement 2018
… Kappa Exercises, at 11, with poet Kevin Young ’92, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the … Neil Shubin, Ph.D. ’87, a paleontologist who is Bensley professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University …
Issue: May-June 2018
College, 9 to 5
… naive high-schooler, I foolishly believed my teachers when they described to me the wonders of college—a legendary paradise where intelligent … and out from under adult supervision, they mastered the art of cool. They read Tolstoy and Dumas. They wrote poetry …
Making Green a Primary Color
… Typically, cities face the challenge of squeezing more green space into their … spaces, and add roads and buildings later? That’s just one of the driving ideas behind the urbanism, landscape, and …