Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship
Gender Studies Appoints Robert Reid-Pharr to Professorship Brandon J. Dixon robert reid-pharr wgsNext month, Robert Reid-Pharr, renowned scholar of African-American and African diasporic gender and...
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Harvard President Bacow Welcome MessageJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard President Bacow Welcome MessageThe formal transition from President Drew Faust to President Lawrence S. Bacow took effect yesterday;...
View ArticleHarvardians May Make Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Shortlist
Harvardians May Make Donald Trump’s Supreme Court ShortlistBrandon J. Dixon Harvardians May Make Donald Trump’s Supreme Court ShortlistAll justices on the current Supreme Court have attended law school...
View ArticleGraduate Student Union Considers Agenda
Graduate Student Union Considers Agenda Brandon J. Dixon hgsu bargaining agendaFor most unions, getting ready for any round of negotiations with an employer requires research and a complicated juggling...
View ArticleClaudine Gay Named Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Bacow Appoints Claudine Gay dean of FASJohn S. Rosenberg new fas dean claudine gayPresident Lawrence S. Bacow announced this morning that Claudine Gay—Cowett professor of government and of African and...
View ArticleSilver, Screens
A printer's archive and Nam June Paik's video art, at the Harvard Art MuseumsSophia Nguyen paik and photography at harvardAn analog photograph isn’t just taken—composed, framed, and then snipped out of...
View ArticleLives Glimpsed through Passports
Lives Glimpsed through PassportsBrandon J. Dixon Lives Glimpsed through PassportsTiny, colorful toddlers’ shoes; a worn copy of Cuentos de Magon, a staple of Costa Rican literature; snapshots of a...
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Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map Collection
Visualizing the World at the Harvard Map CollectionMarina N. Bolotnikova map collection at 200 A map is not merely an image of the earth, precisely plotted and filed as a scientific record. It also...
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The Pragmatist
Profile of Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s 29th presidentLawrence S. Bacow, a career educator, is schooled in making decisions.John S. RosenbergSeptember-October 2018 lawrence-bacow-harvardAt Tufts...
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The Political Solicitor General
The Supreme Court and a politicized U.S. Solicitor GeneralThe “Tenth Justice” and the polarization of the Supreme CourtLincoln CaplanSeptember-October 2018 the-political-solicitor-generalThe most...
View ArticleDay One
Harvard’s twenty-ninth president gets to workSeptember-October 2018 lawrence-bacow-first-day-in-officeMonday, July 2, Lawrence S. Bacow’s first business day as Harvard’s twenty-ninth president, found...
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HMS real-estate deal and a busy post-presidencyJohn S. RosenbergSeptember-October 2018 news-briefsMending the Medical SchoolHarvard Medical School (HMS) has sold a 99-year leasehold in eight of the 11...
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Brevia
New FAS dean, biomedical momentum, and more University newsSeptember-October 2018 breviaArts and Sciences LeaderClaudine Gay (above) became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) on August 15,...
View ArticleLitigating Admissions
Harvard defends race-conscious admissions policies against lawsuitBrandon J. DixonSeptember-October 2018 harvard-admissions-lawsuitIn the course of a lawsuit initiated in 2014 alleging that Harvard...
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Thinking about Space
Undergraduate courses at the Graduate School of DesignLily ScherlisSeptember-October 2018 harvard-curriculum-expansionIn a seminar room on the fifth floor of the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall,...
View ArticleFirst-Gen Orientation
First-Gen OrientationMarina N. Bolotnikova fyre first gen orientationLast Thursday, University President Lawrence Bacow welcomed his first group of Harvard undergraduates, about 100 participants in the...
View Article21,000 Hours
21,000 HoursMarina N. Bolotnikova freshman convocation 2018Harvard College began holding a Freshman Convocation ceremony in 2009—a formal public greeting of new freshmen by the president and deans, and...
View ArticleThe Eighth Day of the Week
Harvard President Lawrence Bacow Delivers First Address at Morning PrayersJonathan Shaw morning prayers 2018President Lawrence S. Bacow opened the fall term on September 4 with a Morning Prayers...
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Harvard in the Heartland
Harvard President Lawrence Bacow promotes Michigan initiativesJohn S. Rosenberg Harvard President Bacow Michigan poverty, opioidsLawrence S. Bacow, the son of refugees, grew up in Pontiac: marinated in...
View ArticleThe Applied Wisdom of the Heartland
Harvard partners with the University of MichiganJohn S. Rosenberg harvard-umichigan partnershipHarvard in the HeartlandIn their very origins, public institutions like the University of Michigan (UM),...
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