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...academic. Chu received a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed him for his cabinet post in January. He has served as head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley. Harvard College will award 1,562 degrees today: 1,549 Bachelor of Arts degrees and 13 Bachelor of Science degrees. 794 men and 768 women make up the graduating class. Seventy undergraduates, representing about 4 percent of the class, earned summa cum laude degrees—the highest degree awarded by the College?...
...opted for Boston and Cambridge’s legendary bluegrass scene.By the time Brown enrolled at Harvard as a freshman, she had already recorded an album, toured the nation with fiddler Stuart Duncan, and won the Canadian National Banjo Championship.Brown has traveled a unique path to become a Grammy Award-winning artist and co-founder of a record label, Compass Records.But though she first picked up the instrument when she was ten, it was not until 1987 that she was able to make it her profession.PRODIGAL ROOTSBrown’s first year roommates found the combination of her California background...
...Constructing Reality: Photography as Fact and Fiction” consistently attracts around 250 students. According to the Q Guide, among Literature and Arts B courses, only “Designing the American City” had a higher enrollment in 2007-2008. In 2006, Kelsey received the Roslyn Abramson Award, which annually honors two assistant or associate professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for excellence in undergraduate teaching. In addition to the history of photography, Kelsey’s research focuses on landscape and American Art. His first book, “Archive Style: Photographs and Illustrations...
...Harvard theater was thriving when the Loeb took the stage. “There was theater all over the place and it was pretty damn good,” said Arthur L. Kopit ’59, a playwright and Tony Award winner. Fourty-five plays had been performed in 1957 alone, productions ranging from student-written work to Shakespeare. Professional critics frequently visited from Boston to comment on current productions...
...naming her a Commander of the British Empire, two levels below knighthood. Mary C. Swope ’59, a classmate and friend of Vaizey’s, said she thought Vaizey was “very pleased” about being honored, but their conversation about the award focused more on what Vaizey would wear to the palace. Swope described her friend—who she first met at Brearly—as a “unique personality” and a “good communicator.” “She was always very observant...