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Plans for a Faculty Senate Move Forward

And annual awards for excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, and scholarship.

by Jonathan Shaw

Mark Saltveit displays for the first (and last?) time the World Palindrome Championship trophy.

The College Pump | July-August 2012

Wow. Huh?

A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner

Priscilla and Brett Donham live happily in a smaller, leaner domicile.

New England Regional | July-August 2012

Omnia Mea Mecum Porto

Downsizing gains popularity.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Getting them while they’re young: tiny cigarette packs, meant for children to incorporate into their play with dolls or toy soldiers

Montage | July-August 2012

Thinking Outside the Pack

Robert Proctor’s Golden Holocaust urges abolition of cigarettes, the leading preventable cause of death.

Paul J. Finnegan

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2012

Corporation Expansion

Paul Finnegan joins the Harvard Corporation, expanding its ranks to 11.

<b>The Blue Classes:</b> The Class of 2012 has revived the "class color" tradition (see "<a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/harvard-class-colors-and-trademark-clothing">Curious Colors</a>"); theirs is blue. On Class Day, members of the class of 1955 displayed their class banner (also blue) to honor the graduating seniors and guest speaker Barney Frank, whose College class (1961) is blue, too.

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2012

Commencement Confetti

Commencement moments and people—pleasing, surprising, and funny

Fareed Zakaria

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2012

At the Mic

An oratorical omnium gatherum, from Donald Berwick and Derek Bok to Margaret Marshall and Fareed Zakaria

John Adams and Walter Kohn

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2012

Honoris Causa

The University confers honorary degrees on six men and two women.

Doctoral delight: new Ph.D.s Sung Hoon Kang, Kedron Thomas, and Rheana Juno Parrenas.

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2012

Commencement 2012: Past, Present, Future

Moments for reflection and projection during the 361st Commencement, in Harvard's 375th anniversary year

For 15 years, William Francis Gibbs greeted the SS <i>United States</i> every time the liner he had designed arrived in New York City.

Features | July-August 2012

Vita: William Francis Gibbs

Brief life of America’s greatest naval architect: 1886-1967

by Steven Ujifusa

Top row from left: Stephen W. Baird , Deborah Kaufman Goldfine, and Stacie J. Kerrigan. Bottom row from left: Ralph A. Mariani, Daniel A. Medina, Paul E. Thornton, and Stephen C. Trivers

Alumni | September-October 2012

Hiram Hunn Awards

The College’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid honors seven alumni.

by Nell Porter-Brown