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Lester Named New Yorker Managing Editor
… Amelia Lester ’05 has been named managing editor of the New Yorker , the New York Observer reported yesterday. … Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine , Lester, a native of Sydney, Australia, wrote her first column for the …
Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Eric Cervini, of Round Rock, Texas, and Lowell House, a history … Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College; Miriam Farkas, of Ellicott City, Maryland, and Lowell House, a linguistics …
Issue: July-August 2014
Hunn Award Winners
… The Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Award … honorees represent, collectively, more than two centuries of labor. They are: Walter C. Klein '39, of Summit, New Jersey, whose contributions include acting as …
Harvard College Connection Launches This Fall
… A new initiative —The Harvard College Connection—will use social media, video, … at Harvard or at other selective institutions, University officials announced today. “To ensure that talented … we need to meet them where they are,” Harvard College dean of admissions and financial aid William R. Fitzsimmons said …
Yale Adds Second ROTC Chapter
… As the September 20 date for implementation of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 nears—prompting universities that prohibit …
Gut Renovation
… A gut renovation of the Sherman Fairchild building this fall will yield 62,000 square feet of space for 275 investigators dedicated to stem-cell …
Issue: November-December 2010
Diabetes Basics
… variants: type 1 and type 2. Both result from a defect in the body’s insulin-producing mechanism, but the way they … lodged beneath the stomach, is roughly the size and shape of a banana; in a healthy person, the all-important beta cells, taken together, have the volume of the first joint of a pinkie finger. Type 1 diabetes is an …
Issue: November-December 2008
Art Theft Redux
… The recent art theft in a Rotterdam museum triggered an … in The New York Times by Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, author of the 2011 book Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists. “Hot Canvases,” a piece from the …
Cambridge Scholars
… Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gregory Kristof , of Scarsdale, New York, and Kirkland House, a philosophy …
Issue: July-August 2015
Harvardian Plays in Oxbridge Rugby Showdown
… Will Johnson ’06, a six-foot-three-inch, 270-pound offensive lineman for the Harvard football team, played for Oxford in the annual … Varsity Match between Oxford and Cambridge, the culmination of the rugby season for Oxford’s Dark Blues and the Light …
Alvin Roth
… economics is to people and ideas from different fields. The Gund professor of economics and business administration began his academic …
Issue: September-October 2008
Vote Now
… five new Harvard Overseers and six new elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots, mailed out by … J.D.-M.B.A. ’04, Menlo Park, California. Partner, New Enterprise Associates. Shilla Kim-Parker ’04, M.B.A. ’09, New York …
Issue: May-June 2013
Nets 'n' Turf
… Beren Tennis Center Boasting 18 courts, the new Robert M. Beren Tennis Center (above) was dedicated in mid April. The gift of Robert M. Beren ’47, M.B.A, ’50, an avid tennis player … intercollegiate events like the NCAA regionals. The state-of-the-art facility provides a “cushioned” hard-court …
Faculty for Freshman Seminars
… new College students to faculty members and to a subject of their choice—an opportunity for real intellectual exploration. But the number of courses offered peaked at about five dozen in the late …
Issue: May-June 2007
John, Boxed
… touch his gleaming toe. It must be summer. This season saw the bronzed demigod enshrined in plywood and lit by a … University Hall," May-June 1999, page 71). Its litany of deficiencies will soon be corrected. Inside, the doors to the first-floor deans' offices were unbarred, unhinged, and stacked like lumber …