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Life After Harvard: The Pains and Pleasures of Alumni Reunions
… Reunions are practically invented for storytellers. “There’s this amazing dramatic structure built into our lives … becomes this built-in ritual, as time passes, to take stock of who we once were, and who we are now. That’s not always … telling details the melancholy-tinged reflections that can arise as classmates depart the reunion: The tent had …
Off the Shelf
… (Mariner, $36.99). With customary brio, Hochschild relates the politically hellish time, even by today’s standards, … vigilantism, and hysterical reactions to the possibility of a domestic Communist revolution strained the system of law as never before. The subtitle, about “democracy’s …
Issue: January-February 2023
Engineering Life
… S ynthetic biology, or the application of engineering principles … even create hybrid systems by linking them to non-living machines. Propelling the science forward are scores of …
Issue: January-February 2020
Here Comes the Sun
… The sun is shining, temps are rising, and normalcy seems … miles away from stress when you’re riding waves courtesy of Cinnamon Rainbows Surf Company, which offers group surf lessons and rentals ( …
Issue: July-August 2021
No Sweat
… ’Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions, like getting into … progress with 3D and video renderings to give you a sense of your dream gym’s form and function, including a full suite of products, from state-of-the-art cardio equipment to barre …
Issue: January-February 2024
The Morning Exercises, Virtual Again
… and a national reckoning with continuing racial injustices, the Harvard community carried on through a unique academic year, closing with a week of online class days, degree conferrals, and more. Two of … and in a nod to the scholarship at the heart of the enterprise, the annual PBK teaching awards—based on nominations …
John S. Rosenberg , Jacob Sweet
The Week’s Events
… and orator Joyce Carol Oates. Baccalaureate Service for the Class of 2011 at 2, Memorial Church, followed by class picture, … School Commencement Address by Kolokotrones University Professor Paul Farmer, M.D. ’88, Ph.D. ’90, followed by a …
Issue: May-June 2011
The Endowment Ebbs
… The University’s endowment was valued at $35.7 billion last June 30, the end of fiscal year 2016—a decrease of $1.9 billion (5.1 percent) … the 5.4 percentage-point margin in fiscal 2016, the gap rises to nearly $2 billion: closing in on $100 million of …
Issue: November-December 2016
Saluting the 2022 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 …
Differences of Opinion on Online Courses
… build and launch massive open online courses (MOOCs)—and other would-be contenders approach the field—evidence and … about how best to use such courses, the experience of learning this way, and possible applications of the … are a great unequalizer when it comes to teachers,” giving rise to a list of online celebrity professors who come to …
Untangling the Brain
… Modern neuroscience rests on the assumption that our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and … a conversation, or recall a moment in childhood, a pattern of activity in our neurons makes such feats possible. It's a … neuroscience, the next question is how that activity gives rise to thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and responses to the …
Issue: May-June 2009
Climbing the Hill
… In the fall of 2001, students supporting a "living wage" for Harvard's janitors and other low-paid employees held rallies to keep the pressure on … Inman Square, Cambridge, neighborhood. Photograph courtesy of Jarret Barrios The young politician was Jarrett Barrios …
Issue: May-June 2003
Faust on Higher Education: Knowledge and “The Living of a Life”
… Harvard President Drew Faust, speaking at Robsham Theater at Boston College and receiving that institution’s … Sesquicentennial Medal, used the occasion to make some of her most expansive remarks on the role and potential of … and engineering, and for technologically enabled new enterprises—witness the fledgling iLab and the president's …
Opening Exercises, Class of 2011
… President Drew Gilpin Faust welcomed first-year students at the College in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Sunday, … a ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Sunday, September 9. Audio of the remarks by Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and by President Faust, …
“Outside the Harvard Bubble”
… Julie Yen ’14 wasn’t keen on skipping a semester’s worth of classes at Harvard to study abroad. Turns out, she didn’t need to. Yen was one of 20 undergraduates in the inaugural class of the Harvard College Europe Program …