Tag: Alumni
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Campus & Community
A homecoming for Adams House alums
Tours, talks, tributes to history and community mark celebration of six-year project to refresh space
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Science & Tech
How an astronaut calculates risk
With blast-off date approaching, Anil Menon prepares for the ‘impossible’
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Science & Tech
Our viral vocabulary
Adam Aleksic — aka the ‘Etymology Nerd’ — discusses how social media algorithms are transforming language
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Nation & World
‘Now I have become death, the destroyer of the worlds’
Oral history offers kaleidoscopic view of angst and relief, hope and dread at test of atomic bomb 80 years ago
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Arts & Culture
Funny or failure? It’s a fine line.
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ writer on taking risks in comedy and why getting laughs is worth near-constant rejection
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Nation & World
Why was Pacific Northwest home to so many serial killers?
In ‘Murderland,’ alum explores lead-crime theory through lens of her own memories growing up there
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Arts & Culture
Is the secret to immortality in our DNA?
Alum’s campus novel offers cautionary tale to biotech culture
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Campus & Community
‘Who we are and what we stand for’
Amid Harvard Alumni Day celebration, speakers address challenges, share messages of strength and resolve
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Campus & Community
Overseers announce new president, vice chair
Sylvia Mathews Burwell ’87, former president of American University and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been elected president of the Harvard University Board…
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Campus & Community
Kannon Shanmugam to join Harvard Corporation
Alumnus of College and HLS elected to University’s senior governing board
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Campus & Community
Hey you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later.
A little advice for the graduates — or, at least, for one of them (you know who you are)
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Campus & Community
12 alumni elected to Harvard leadership boards
New Overseers and HAA directors to begin terms in May, July
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Science & Tech
How do extremists get that way? Probably quite naturally.
In new book, neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod traces connections between brain biology, political beliefs
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Campus & Community
When Jodie Foster found out acting wasn’t a dumb job
Celebrated performer, filmmaker — and now Radcliffe Medalist — discusses sometimes thorny complexities of six-decade career
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Campus & Community
Redefining what’s possible
President’s Innovation Challenge provides winners with support at the earliest stages of their ventures
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Campus & Community
Four awarded Harvard Medal for exceptional service
To be honored on June 6 marking Alumni Day
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Nation & World
Leveraging social capital to defend worthy causes, people in need of representation
Legal scholar and Law School grad returns for student panel
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Arts & Culture
‘Everybody feels like two people’
Alum who co-produces ‘Severance’ says show speaks to real-life mysteries
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Campus & Community
Rising econ star sheds light on power of exchange rates
Oleg Itskhoki, now a Clark Medalist, returns to Harvard
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Campus & Community
How to escape your silo (spoiler: friendship helps)
Co-authors of ‘What We Can’t Burn’ formed lasting bond even as they argued about best way to fight climate change
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Arts & Culture
Letting the portraits speak for themselves
New exhibit elevates overlooked voices as it explores hope, change, and how we see other
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Campus & Community
Atul Gawande named featured speaker for Harvard Alumni Day
Acclaimed surgeon, writer, and public health leader will take the stage at Harvard’s global alumni celebration on June 6
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Science & Tech
Why new qubit may give ultrafast quantum computing a boost
Microsoft discovery appears to be more stable, robust option
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Arts & Culture
Choice is a good thing. Right?
Historian explores how having options became synonymous with freedom — and why it doesn’t always feel that way
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Campus & Community
Ballot finalized for Overseer and HAA director elections
Candidates listed in official ballot order
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Campus & Community
Class of 2000 elects Dara Olmsted Silverstein as chief marshal of alumni
Food sustainability advocate to serve in longstanding alumni tradition
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Campus & Community
Alumni donations drive progress in Economics Department
Gifts support professorships, spaces in future Pritzker Hall
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Campus & Community
Alumni committee announces Harvard board candidates
Voting for Overseers and HAA elected directors starts April 1
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Arts & Culture
The 20th-century novel, from its corset to bomber jacket phase
In ‘Stranger Than Fiction,’ Edwin Frank chose 32 books to represent the period. He has some regrets.
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Nation & World
‘Because Larry has shown up for us’
Friends, colleagues gather for 70th birthday conference honoring economic scholar, former Treasury Secretary and University President Lawrence Summers