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Jim Yong Kim Named Dartmouth President
… Jim Yong Kim, director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has accepted the presidency …
Remembering Max Hall
… Max Hall died in Cambridge on January 12 at 100 years of age. He was a writer, teacher of writing, journalist, editor of scholarly books, and for … this magazine. Each of his numerous articles was a model of the ABCs of good journalism: accuracy, brevity, and clarity. …
Issue: March-April 2011
Centennial Medalists
… The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who …
Issue: July-August 2014
Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, Elected to Harvard Corporation
… The University announced today that Paul J. Finnegan ’75, M.B.A. ’82, a current member of the Board of Overseers , has been elected a member of the Harvard …
Harvard Calendar
… Karr, and Maxine Kumin, and panel discussions involving other poets and scholars at Poetry at Radcliffe: Celebrating Four Decades of Fellowship, on April 12. Sponsored by the Radcliffe … for the annual ArtsFirst 2003 festival, showcasing dozens of student performances, plays, and concerts in and around …
Issue: March-April 2003
Comings and Goings
… Harvard clubs offer a variety of social and intellectual events around the country. For information on future programs, contact …
Issue: May-June 2012
Honeybee House Hunting
… The more scientists study the social insects, they more they are amazed. Thomas D. Seeley, Ph.D. ’78, professor and chair of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell, combines vocation …
Issue: May-June 2011
Unusual Triptych
… Three art installations now on view at Harvard under the collective title "The Divine Comedy" are attracting … 3 and whose whereabouts are currently unknown. It comprises nine large piles of children's backpacks—5,335 in all—each pack representing …
Anti-obesity Drugs within Reach?
… Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have identified two drugs … brown fat, which burns energy through the release of heat. Such drugs have the potential to become a powerful tool in the fight against obesity. One of the drugs (tofacitinib) is already FDA-approved and on …
Saxophonically Speaking
… arrived for jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman ’91 on one of the first nights he ever shared a stage with his … I could create a narrative line in my solos, and bring surprise and playfulness in, too. But playing next to my dad, I …
Issue: September-October 2013
Father and Son, and E.E. Cummings
… In the early twentieth century, life was hard for Jews in … their small Romanian town. Avrom was challenged by an official: “Are you a foreigner?” “I have lived here all my … Tecuci and came to America. They were among the millions of Jews from central Europe who arrived at that time. Many …
Artful Campus
… enriched with a significant, thought-provoking, collection of contemporary art (see “Rethinking the Walls,” January-February 2013). Now the grounds are … and lush landscaping, but with a temporary installation of four sculptures on loan from contemporary artists. On the …
Issue: November-December 2016
Fahrenthold, Whitehead, and Desmond Win Pulitzer Prizes
… transparent journalism in political campaign coverage,” The Washington Post’ s David Fahrenthold ’00 has been … Railroad , and Matthew Desmond, Loeb associate professor of the social sciences, received the award in nonfiction …
Staff Testimonials
… students, faculty, and alumni are engaged in every facet of this enormous social transformation: advising on clean … development (a 2010 dispatch). Until an alumnus attuned to the global University provided the means for international … are so important to the University community—and the world—of today and tomorrow. Now, thanks to his support, we can …
Chapter & Verse
… Richard Kennelly seeks a poem he saw in the late ’70s, perhaps in The Atlantic Monthly, in which an … that causes him to recall his own past and the wild rush of riding horses. Kennelly remembers the phrases “The … (or “son”), “A bum in boots they call him,” and “The smell of horse sweat.” Mark Saltveit submits two palindromes— …
Issue: July-August 2019