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“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.”
Winthrop House interim faculty deans Mary Herlihy-Gearan and Mark Gearan
Photograph by Kevin Colton
After a tumultuous semester, Mark and Mary Herlihy-Gearan take up the reins.
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.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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“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.”
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.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
Photograph by Barcin/iStock
A new study quantifies the global impact of declines in a single nutrient in a single crop, and hints at wider impacts.
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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.
Researchers with metaLAB (at) Harvard will test a new course exploration tool that presents the curriculum as a rich network of connections.
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Dani Rodrik
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Dani Rodrik’s views on trade, development, and democracy enter the mainstream.
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
As a performer, Lauderdale is often the center of attention. With Meow Meow, he embraces a supportive role.
Photograph by Autumn de Wilde
Pink Martini bandleader Thomas Lauderdale is at his best bringing people together.
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Community-focused jazz concerts in the Seaport
Photograph courtesy of the Boston Jazz Festival
The Boston Jazz Fest offers local and international artists.
Sashimi carpaccio
Photograph courtesy of Kamakura
Kamakura offers gem-like small plates in Boston.
Courtesy of Rebecca Tolkoff, @BeccasFitnessMind
Your guide to the best summertime activities
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An admissions scandal further damages the reputation of selective institutions of higher education.
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Prince Shōtoku at Age Two, a thirteenth-century Japanese icon made of wood with inlaid quartz eyesImage 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.
A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.
Alexander Rehding
Photograph by Stu RosnerThe Peabody professor of music, in brief
Dance theater company ANIKAYA’s The Conference of the Birds explores movement, self-knowledge, and human interdependence.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
Photograph by Jim Harrison
On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Photograph by Vladislav Sevostianov
Rock climbing in Greater Boston—and beyond
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A hen turkey and her seven poults have settled near the eastern end of Harvard Yard.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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July-August 2004
Letters
THE FLABBY POPULACEGreat article by Craig Lambert on "The Way We Eat Now" (May-June, page 50), the best I have read on the subject...
The College Pump
“Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by.” Scholars up to the tune of 6,000 and more received degrees at this...
Treasure
The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute possesses this plaster cast of two clasped hands, a woman's and a man's. The plaster bears...
In this Issue
This year, a group of international terrorists announced its intention to affect an election with the goal of replacing a government that...
Totally deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, world famous at seven for having learned to read, write, and communicate through the finger...
When impresario Serge Diaghilev launched his Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, he injected into the tired corpus of European ballet a massive...
Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the face staring back at you is literally not the same one you...
Letters
THE FLABBY POPULACEGreat article by Craig Lambert on "The Way We Eat Now" (May-June, page 50), the best I have read on the subject...
Right Now
The more you love a memory," Vladimir Nabokov once declared, "the stronger and stranger it is." Certainly we never forget the details of our...
The stories of Manhattan's outrageous apartment prices are legendary: residents routinely pay through the nose for a studio roughly the size of...
Last year, pop star Madonna went on the attack in the war over file sharing, the popular but illegal practice of downloading copyrighted music...
Like fire extinguishers and airline safety cards, lifeboats remind us of a reality we prefer to ignore; on a tropical cruise, we tune out the...
New England Regional
Resources for finding out more about long-term-care planning, options, cost, and insurance coverage...
Few people understand it. Nobody likes thinking about it. But at some point, it touches nearly all of us.
What follows is a summary of information about long-term-care insurance (frequently abbreviated as LTCi). For an inexpensive brochure on buying...
For most of its 202-year history, the cottage at 98 Winthrop Street has been a private residence. A year ago, Paul Overgaag, owner of the now...
John Harvard's Journal
To those who have seen many of them, this year's Commencement day seemed a sober affair, fit for the gray skies and gray times. The customary...
Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard's 353rd Commencement. Provost Steven E. Hyman introduced them to the Commencement...
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF (MORE BETTER)"Our records of the first Commencement, in 1642, show that all nine students received diplomas," President...
Read the 2004 Commencement address by United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan.
Harvard undergraduates would be much freer than they are now to shape a course of study if the recommendations of the "Report on the...
Scott V. EdwardsPhotograph by Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Hatched in Hawaii, fledged in the Bronx, and sighted above with some of...
When four faculty task forces finished their reports on Allston this May, the development scenario outlined in an October 2003 letter by...
Sponsored-research funds account for about one-fifth of Harvard's operating revenue — and for 50 to 70 percent of the revenue of the...
One of the world's most important private collections of eighteenth-century English literature — with the lexicographer, author, critic...
Two recent gifts and a change in graduate-student support, respectively, bolster Harvard's efforts to encourage public service; help students...
This April, the inaugural issue of La Vida Guide to Harvard highlighted the College's thriving Latino community. In the wake of the popular...
There's a spacious aerie called the "penthouse" atop the Littauer Building at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), and it was...
For three-quarters of a century, the Harvard rooms at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have hosted graduates of the New England university named for...
1919 Indignant alumni write the Bulletin protesting the unsportsmanlike conduct of Harvard spectators at the annual Harvard-Yale baseball game...
Vanishing VisasPost-9/11 delays in granting visas for foreign nationals intending to study in the United States have begun to inhibit the flow...
They're dancing on the Steinway piano. And on the parquet, the Persian rugs, and the oak tables. The room is reverberating to a song called...
Last November, when the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) produced the French Romantic play Lorenzaccio on the Loeb Drama Center's main...
On April 12, 1877, in a baseball game between Harvard students and the Live Oaks (a semipro team from Lynn, Massachusetts), James Alexander...
On June 18, 1903, on the occasion of Frederick Thayer's twenty-fifth reunion, his teammates presented him with the "first catcher's mask ever...
RowingThe men's heavyweight crew capped its second consecutive undefeated season by repeating as national champions at the Intercollegiate...
Alumni
Editor's note: With a contentious national election approaching, the U.S. Senate race in Illinois between two Harvard Law School graduates...
In his foreward to the anniversary report of the class of 1954, class secretary John T. Bethell made some upbeat observations about longevity...
Three alumni, each "represent[ing] the best of our broad community" according to the Board of Overseers and the HAA's Alumni Awards Committee...
The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and new directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced at the...
"A gift to Harvard is a gift to the world," declared Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, L.H.D. '03, the longtime chairman of the Committee on...
Frances Pass Addelson and Philip KeenePhotograph by Jane ReedThe oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on Commencement day, who led...
Luke Patrick Winston '03 traveled 7,500 miles — from Las Vegas, New Mexico, to Harvard, and now on to Santiago, Chile — to find his...
The College Pump
“Your wooden arm you hold outstretched to shake with passers-by.” Scholars up to the tune of 6,000 and more received degrees at this...
Treasure
The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute possesses this plaster cast of two clasped hands, a woman's and a man's. The plaster bears...