Tag: Red Sox

  • Nation & World

    Walking with my baby; an eclectic ‘MixTape’; and taking people back to the ballgame

    Stories from Harvard faculty, students, and staff about work and life in the pandemic.

    8 minutes
    Leo Ingraham taking first steps.
  • Nation & World

    The Sox beyond Fenway

    As the Boston Red Sox look to build on their strong start this season, the team’s work off the field, including its efforts to support inner city children and to confront racism, took center stage at a panel discussion at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sox title strikes right note

    An organist of 11 years for the Red Sox, Harvard library assistant Josh Kantor serenaded fans deep into the night after the team’s World Series win.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Excelling together

    To gain some understanding of why the Boston Red Sox succeeded so well, the Gazette spoke to Jeffrey T. Polzer, the Harvard Business School UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management, about aspects of team chemistry that separate champions from cellar dwellers in sports and business.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard staffers, faculty raise $11,700

    Red Sox-themed fundraiser nets $11,700 for the Jimmy Fund.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    100 years and counting

    Harvard’s baseball team took batting practice at Fenway Park to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first game played there, which Harvard lost to the forbears of the Red Sox, 2-0.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    All things baseball

    Harvard Professor Jill Lepore led off a murderers’ row lineup of six Harvard professors for “GenEd at Bat: A Discussion of America’s Favorite Pastime with the Faculty of Gen Ed” at Science Center A on Tuesday.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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…

    12 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard rallies against cancer

    Now through April 8, team up with other Harvard faculty and staff members to shut out cancer through Harvard Community Gifts.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    The politics of ballparks

    From Camden Yards to Fenway Park, Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino has helped to push the idea of the American ballpark as a civic focal point since the 1980s. On Tuesday (Dec. 7), he shared his thoughts on “Ballparks, Politics, and Public Policy” at the Harvard Kennedy School.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    It’s all about the numbers

    Alexander Ahmed ’10 shows a passion for statistics both on the diamond and in the classroom.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Baseball-themed picnic a ‘hit’ with Cambridge seniors

    Sponsored by the Office of the Mayor for Cambridge and the Office of the President of Harvard University, the annual Harvard Yard Picnic draws hundreds of senior members from the local community to Harvard Yard to enjoy food, friends, and music.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Emerald walks, Sox tickets up for bid at auction

    A walking tour of Dublin and a pair of Red Sox tickets are just two of the items up for bid at the annual Summer Internship Fund auction scheduled for today (Dec. 6) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The silent auction, featuring dozens of items, will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by a…

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