What they’re reading
A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge. Cherry A. Murray Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and John A. and Elizabeth S....
View ArticleColleagues recall Kagan’s years at Harvard
The U.S. Senate confirmed former Harvard Law School (HLS) dean Elena Kagan today (Aug. 5) as the fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. In a series of interviews, Kagan’s former Harvard...
View ArticleA look inside: Winthrop House
“Omar’s coming!” Winthrop House resident Lawrence Benjamin ’11 hollered across the Junior Common Room. Doing his best impression of the boys on the streets of Baltimore featured in HBO’s acclaimed...
View ArticleLady Gaga, Winfrey target bullying
She has the most renowned wardrobe on the planet, a legion of fans she calls “Little Monsters,” and multiple Grammy Awards. Now, she has collaborators at Harvard, too. Pop sensation Lady Gaga launched...
View ArticleWell, that’s debatable
Nancy Houfek, Head of Voice & Speech at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), is an expert on how to speak, move, and act onstage. She had the same reaction to the first presidential debate...
View ArticleConfronting the drug war
Students and fellows packed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Tuesday, just before the State of the Union address, for a screening of the award-winning documentary “The House I Live In.” Following the...
View ArticleAlan Dershowitz: ‘Never boring’
After five decades as one of the most visible and vocal presences at Harvard Law School (HLS), Alan M. Dershowitz is in his final semester of teaching and will relinquish his chair at the end of the...
View ArticleAfter Ferguson’s fury
Five weeks after a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed African-American teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo., ripples from the shooting and the ensuing days of angry public protests...
View ArticleFrom awareness to action
Anita Hill’s work isn’t done. In 1991, she started a national conversation about sexual harassment. Now, she says, it’s time for that conversation to move “beyond awareness to consequences” for...
View ArticleChallenges remain, but connections are key
It was described as a historic event as hundreds of black alumni from across generations gathered at Harvard University over the weekend, many representing its graduate Schools. “This is an...
View ArticleReflecting on Charles Hamilton Houston’s battle against Jim Crow
When the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools on May 17, 1954, in its ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, the accolades mostly went to Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP lawyer who...
View Article‘Breakfast Club’ started to make a new coach feel at home
Moving to a new city and starting at a new school or a new job can be an exciting experience. But it’s also a stressful one, at least early on, when you don’t know anyone or how to get around town or...
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