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Visiting Professors Adjust to Harvard
Every year dozens of professors come to Harvard from institutions as close as MIT and as far as Australia to
Professors Make Headlines in a Year of Discovery
Harvard professors juggle myriad activities. When they are not in class or at their office hours, they are often conducting
Publications Range From Beethoven to Zoroastrian Texts
MORAL PHILOSOPHY GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Professor Emeritus Stanley Cavell recently published the book Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a
Finding Home at the Movies
It seems fitting that Mira Nair, the renowned film director and producer who achieved international acclaim with her hit film
Ferguson Readies for Harvard
One of the world’s foremost scholars of American and British imperial history is about to join Harvard’s empire on the
Review To Suggest Core’s Replacement
For 25 years, the Core curriculum has served as the cornerstone of a Harvard College education. For nearly as long,
Feminist Theorist Dies at 57
Renowned feminist political theorist Susan M. Okin died last Wednesday, March 3, in her Lincoln, Mass., home. She was 57.
Popular Psychology Professor To Leave
A social psychologist voted one of Harvard students’ “Favorite Professors” for the past two years plans to leave Cambridge at
College Preps for Holiday Stragglers
Daniel U. Perez ’06 may not get to eat his favorite, pecan pie, this Thanksgiving. The expense and the distance
48 Seniors Elected To Honor Society
Forty-eight seniors were elected to the Harvard College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on Nov. 14 in the second of
Former Dean, Labor Secretary Dies
John T. Dunlop, a preeminent labor economist who served as U.S. secretary of Labor under President Gerald Ford and as
African Languages Program Debuts
In reaction to student demand, Harvard has created a new program enabling students to study an impressive array of African
Bush Appeals Court Nominee Estrada Concedes Defeat After Fillibuster
Miguel A. Estrada, the 1986 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate whose confirmation to the federal bench was impeded by a
In Memoriam
Robert R. Barker Robert R. Barker ’36, a Wall Street executive who served two terms as president of the Board
Blessing and Burden
As thousands of Radcliffe alums return to Cambridge this week to reconnect with classmates and revisit the site of their
