Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 | SUBSCRIBE

Articles
- News
  
  more News
  
  The Movement to Open Up Syllabi
  
  “It’s kind of like when you go to the library to check out one book, but it’s actually the book next to the book you were looking for that was the important one. A syllabus sets up that opportunity.”
  
  7.23.19
  
  Winthrop House interim faculty deans Mary Herlihy-Gearan and Mark Gearan
  Photograph by Kevin Colton
  
  Harvard Appoints Interim Winthrop House Leaders
  
  After a tumultuous semester, Mark and Mary Herlihy-Gearan take up the reins.
  
  7.19.19
  
  A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
  
  Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix
  
  Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
  
  7.17.19
- Research
  
  more Research
  
  The Movement to Open Up Syllabi
  
  “It’s kind of like when you go to the library to check out one book, but it’s actually the book next to the book you were looking for that was the important one. A syllabus sets up that opportunity.”
  
  7.23.19
  
  A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
  
  Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix
  
  Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
  
  7.17.19
  
  Photograph by Barcin/iStock
  
  As Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises, Nutrient Content of Rice Falls
  
  A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
  
  7.9.19
- Students
  
  more Students
  
  A screenshot from Curricle, a new tool for exploring the curriculum. The word “curricle” refers to light, open, two-wheeled horse-pulled carriages popular during the nineteenth century. Schnapp chose the name because the word “curricle”—like the English word “curriculum”—derives from the Latin “curriculum,” meaning “race,” “running,” or “chariot.” “Curricle” as a platform name thus invokes the metaphor of the curriculum as an academic vehicle and journey.
  
  Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix
  
  Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
  
  7.17.19
  
  Illustration by Matt Chinworth
  
  Documentary Styles
  
  The Undergraduate takes a chance with film.
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Sofie Fella
  Photograph by Jim Harrison
  
  Try, Try Again
  
  Rugby’s freshman scorer Sofie Fella
  
  July-August 2019
- Alumni
  
  more Alumni
  
  Bridget Terry Long
  Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
  
  Educating Educators
  
  New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Dani Rodrik
  Photograph by Stu Rosner
  
  The Trilemma
  
  Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
  Photograph by Gary Alpert
  
  Dance in Translation
  
  Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
  
  July-August 2019
- Harvard Squared
  
  more Harvard Squared
  
  Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
  Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
  
  Live Jazz in the Seaport
  
  The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Sashimi carpaccio
  Photograph courtesy of Kamakura
  
  Japanese Elegance
  
  Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Courtesy of Rebecca Tolkoff, @BeccasFitnessMind
  
  Outdoor Adventures
  
  Your guide to the best summertime activities
  
  July-August 2019
- Opinion
  
  more Opinion
  
  Cambridge 02138
  
  Letters on Justice Holmes, another shoeless feat, athletic admissions, and more
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Thinner Ice
  
  An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Illustration by Matt Chinworth
  
  Documentary Styles
  
  The Undergraduate takes a chance with film.
  
  July-August 2019
- Arts
  
  more Arts
  
  Click on arrow at right to see full statue and additional images
  Prince Shōtoku at Age Two, a thirteenth-century Japanese icon made of wood with inlaid quartz eyes
  Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial and promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr., 2019.122.
  
  Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Secrets
  
  A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.
  
  6.17.19
  
  Chinese refugees stream through the wrecked streets of Chongqing, heavily bombed by the Japanese from 1938 to 1943 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  Photograph from Central Press/Getty Images
  
  A Fragile Relationship
  
  The parallel, perilous, histories of China and Japan
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Click on arrow at right to view full image gallery
  (1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust allée
  Photograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
  
  A Bridge to the Past
  
  Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
  
  July-August 2019
- Sports
  
  more Sports
  
  Sofie Fella
  Photograph by Jim Harrison
  
  Try, Try Again
  
  Rugby’s freshman scorer Sofie Fella
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
  Photograph by Jim Harrison
  
  Science Dean, Soccer Judge
  
  On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
  Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
  
  Peak Experiences
  
  Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
  
  May-June 2019
- Harvardiana
  
  more Harvardiana
  
  Photograph by Allison Kern/Harvard Magazine
  
  It’s Baby Turkey Season in Cambridge
  
  A hen turkey and her seven poults have settled near the eastern end of Harvard Yard.
  
  6.11.19
  
  Illustration by Mark Steele
  
  Yesterday’s News
  
  Headlines from Harvard’s history
  
  July-August 2019
  
  Stephen Jay Gould
  Photograph by Richard Howard/The LIFE Images Collection
  
  The “Great Asymmetry”
  
  Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
  
  July-August 2019
- Puzzles
  
  Remaking the Grid
  
  March-April 2019
  
  A Harvard Magazine Tradition Ends
  
  1.12.17
  
  Cryptic Puzzle: “Regatta”
  
  8.17.16
  
  Cryptic Puzzle: “Soccer Club”
  
  6.14.16
  
  Cryptic Puzzle: “Gift”
  
  4.18.16
  
  Cryptic Puzzle: “Diversifying”
  
  2.17.16
  
  Harvard Puzzles by John de Cuevas
  
  more Puzzles
Current Issue

Read the current issue
July-August 2019

Ellen N. La Motte as a young woman
Courtesy of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Ellen Newbold La Motte

Brief life of a bold activist: 1873-1961
Archives

From the archives

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

The Watchers

Assaults on privacy and security in America threaten democracy itself.

January-February 2017

May-June 2019

March-April 2019

January-February 2019

more Back Issues
Class Notes

To access Class Notes or Obituaries, please log in using your Harvard Magazine account and verify your alumni status.

Don't have a Harvard Magazine account? Register Here
Or submit a class note or obituary
Classifieds
Vacation Rentals & Travel

Real Estate

Personals

Products & Services

Place an Ad

Special Sections
Donate

Show your Support for
Harvard Magazine

Your donation today ensures that Harvard Magazine can continue to provide high-quality content and remain an editorially independent source of news about the Harvard community.

Why Support Harvard Magazine? | Financial Update | Donor Services

Donate

John Harvard's Journal

The Senior Marshals

May-June 2004

The senior marshals, looking ahead to Commencement 2004, are: (clockwise from top left) Liz Drummond of Quincy House and Winchester, Massachusetts; Shira Sivan Simon of Leverett House and West Des Moines, Iowa; John Paul M. Fox of Mather House and Needham, Massachusetts; Zachary A. Corker of Mather House and Holualoa, Hawaii; Katie Zacarian of Dunster House and Amherst, Massachusetts; First Marshal Shaka Joaquin Doyle Bahadu of Dunster House and Detroit; Benita Liao of Cabot House and Douglaston, New York; and Jessica Tang of Adams House and Pearland, Texas.

Photograph by Stu Rosner

Search form

The Senior Marshals

On Readers’ Radar