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Higher ed leaders back Harvard-MIT fight against ICE rules
Harvard and MIT file suit against a federal order requiring international students to attend classes in person this fall or risk deportation, visa denial.
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Paul Mead Doty
At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 7, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Paul Mead Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Doty played a leading role in establishing the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard. He…
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‘Ulysses’ unlocked
A new book by Harvard lecturer in history and literature Kevin Birmingham tracks the challenge of bringing “Ulysses,” the masterwork by James Joyce, to the page and to the public.
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Delaney-Smith breaks Ivy League record
Harvard women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith earned career win No. 515 on Friday to become the all-time winning Ivy League head coach with a 69-65 victory over Yale at Lavietes Pavilion.
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New voice at Memorial Church
Lucy Forster-Smith joins Harvard as the Sedgwick Chaplain to the University and senior minister to the Memorial Church.
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Harvard kicks off football season
“We are off to a solid start at 2-0, but we have a great deal of room for improvement …,” said a cautious head football coach Tim Murphy after the win over Brown University on Sept. 28. Harvard goes up against Holy Cross on Oct. 5. It won’t have another home game until Oct. 19.
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Diane Paulus, on her big night
In a question-and-answer session on Monday, A.R.T. director Diane Paulus discussed her revival of the musical “Pippin,” which won four top honors at the Tony Awards.
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Crimson move into first place in Ivy League
Harvard men’s basketball moved into sole possession of first place in the Ivy League after beating Princeton 69-57 on Saturday, following a Friday night win over Penn, 73-54.
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Freedom’s just another word
The poor often have too many basic choices, which can sap their resources and energy, economist says.
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The Last Supper as Passover
A leading cultural and intellectual historian of Renaissance Europe, Princeton Professor Anthony Grafton suggests that the diligent work of 16th-century scholar Joseph Scaliger, in particular, led to the theory that the Last Supper may well have been in fact a Passover Seder.
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Drive, they said
After winning a share of the Ivy League championship last season and setting a program record for wins, Harvard’s men’s basketball team looks to build on its success when the season starts Nov. 11 against M.I.T.
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Looking ahead
He’s an economist, a researcher, and a physician, and he’s about to become provost. On the day (April 15) that President Drew Faust announced that he would be Harvard’s next provost, Alan M. Garber ’76 sat down with the Gazette to talk about his career, his new role, and facilitating connections across traditional academic boundaries…
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No quit in Crimson
The season will continue for the Harvard men’s basketball team, despite a heartbreaking loss to Princeton on Saturday (March 12) that cost the squad a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson will square off against Oklahoma State on March 15 in the National Invitational Tournament.
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Harvard men drive on to ‘destiny’
Last year, the Harvard men’s basketball team won the most games in its history. This year, despite graduation of their best player and significant injuries, the Crimson are in a position to finish even better.
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Clues in clay
Research by physicists from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton, and Brandeis shows that clay vesicles provide an ideal container for the compartmentalization of complex organic molecules. The discovery opens the possibility that primitive cells may have formed inside inorganic clay microcompartments.
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Harvard Library joins Borrow Direct
The Harvard Library has joined the Borrow Direct Partnership, which will enable faculty, staff, and students to search a combined catalog of more than 50 million volumes at nine institutions and request circulating items.
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A new vice president
Harvard names Mark R. Johnson as the University’s vice president for capital planning and project management.
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What makes a life significant?
A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.
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Bringing men’s lax back
Third-year head coach John Tillman helps Harvard lacrosse return to national prominence.
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Princeton douses Crimson hopes
Women’s basketball team falls to first-place Princeton for first home loss in more than a year.
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Harvard vs. Princeton – Men’s Soccer
Harvard falls to Princeton in a tough, mid-Fall battle.
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Allston-Brighton has its day
Harvard has hosted its Allston and Brighton neighbors to an early reception and a football game for the past 20 years. It is a bookend to Cambridge Football Day, which was held earlier this month.
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Crimson stay unbeaten in Ivies
Homecoming was all about highs and lows in Harvard’s 37-3 blowout of the Princeton Tigers on Saturday (Oct. 24).
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Crimson fall in OT to Princeton
Andre Akpan ’10 moved two steps closer to becoming the all-time leading scorer for men’s soccer at Harvard after scoring his ninth and 10th goals of the season on Oct. 20 and Oct. 24.
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Crimson win 3 in walk-off fashion
In dramatic fashion, the Harvard men’s baseball team took three-of-four from Cornell and Princeton this past weekend (April 4-5), with the help of three key walk-off hits, two from Tom Stack-Babich ’09 and one from Taylor Meehan ’09.
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Crimson power back to tame Tigers
In basketball, embarrassment can be excruciating, but it can also serve as a powerful motivator. It took an embarrassing first half against Princeton (Feb. 20), in which the Crimson trailed 6-28 at one point, for Harvard to muster a bit of motivation.
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Princeton edges Harvard in women’s squash final
The No. 2 Harvard women’s squash team fell just shy of their 12th College Squash Association (CSA) national championship on Sunday (Feb. 15), falling to No. 1 Princeton, 5-4.
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Softball: Two and out versus Princeton in Ivy championship
The Princeton softball team picked up two-straight wins against the visiting Crimson this past Saturday (May 3) to capture the Ivy League’s best-of-three championship series and the subsequent NCAA bid.
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Racquet men blast Quakers, Tigers
In the middle of last Friday’s (April 11) men’s tennis doubles match versus visiting Penn, the electronic scoreboard keeping track of court three stopped working. As the action went on undisrupted, the (temporarily nonfunctioning) scoreboard was hardly missed, or necessary.
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Sports in brief
CRIMSON SWIMMERS COMPETE AT NATIONALS IN WASHINGTON, TIGERS TRIP UP POSTSEASON RUN FOR MEN’S HOCKEY, FRESHMAN SAILORS PACE CRIMSON AT CENTRAL SERIES TWO, CWPA SELECTS 12 HARVARDIANS TO ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM