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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 19th 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.
Prineha Narang (right), assistant professor of computational materials science, works with a student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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The Office of Technology Development hosts a Palo Alto venture-capital night for Harvard startups.
Prominent economist placed on leave for two years, then on probation.
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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 19th 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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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 19th 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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Bridget Terry Long
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New HGSE dean Bridget Terry Long seeks to “expand, double down, and deepen our impact.”
Dani Rodrik
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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.
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Choreographer Wendy Jehlen’s “dance diplomacy”
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Your guide to the best summertime activities
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(1 of 6) W.E.C. Eustis’s library, with its bay window overlooking the locust alléePhotograph by Eric Roth/Courtesy of Historic New England
Historic New England’s Eustis Estate
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Kay KennyPhotographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
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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.
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Kay KennyPhotographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night
Alexander Rehding
Photograph by Stu RosnerThe Peabody professor of music, in brief
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Frank Doyle, in full ref attire, is fluent in Newton’s laws of motion—and the laws of the game.
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On the weekends, SEAS dean Frank Doyle steps out of his office and onto the pitch.
Red Rocks Conservation Area, in Gloucester, Massachusetts
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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.
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Country dance, saving homework from a burning car, and Stephen Jay Gould on 9/11
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March-April 2009
Letters
Letters from our readers
The College Pump
A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley
Treasure
In this Issue
With a new interdisciplinary center, Harvard turns its focus to the earliest years of life.
The United States must refresh the marriage of excellence and opportunity that characterizes American higher education at its best, argue sociologists Theda Skocpol and Suzanne Mettler.
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
Letters
Letters from our readers
Right Now
Harvard Business School’s Peter Tufano says simplifying savings-bond purchases for small savers will benefit citizens and government alike.
History professor Daniel Lord Smail explores the role of psychotropic mechanisms in human evolution and history.
The Internet, by allowing like-minded individuals to self-segregate, has had a polarizing effect on democracy, suggests Harvard Law School’s Cass Sunstein..
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
New England Regional
Some comments on cohabitation
John Harvard's Journal
Harvard assesses the feasibility of completing capital projects now under way, and the timing of other parts of its institutional master plan.
Harvard and its schools are preparing for broad and potentially deep cost reductions.
An update on the University’s financial contribution
A University-wide task force recommends new degree programs, courses, and spaces for art production.
Africa Map, a project of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, brings GIS capabilities to research on the entire continent.
Happenings at Harvard in March and April of years past
Harvard marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A new interdisciplinary decision-science lab will host experiments from psychology, economics, and beyond.
Of archives, libraries, personal memories, and Sylvia Plath
Ice-hockey update
Montage
Harvard science labs and master chef Ferran Adrià confect a mutually beneficial partnership.
John Matteson, who left the law to pursue literature, won a Pulitzer Prize for <em>Eden’s Outcasts,</em> his double biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.
In this excerpt from his new book, <em>The Art and Politics of Science,</em> Nobel laureate Harold Varmus reflects on his switch from graduate work in English to medical school.
Paul M. Barrett reviews <em>The Invisible Constitution</em>, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.
Recent books with Harvard connections
A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Robert Burke’s nonprofit Ladder Up offers tax help and financial advice to the working poor.
This spring, alumni will choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board.
The HAA clubs committee awards were presented February 5
Comings and Goings; Return to Harvard Day; and a special notice regarding Harvard's Commencement Exercises
News from Shared Interest Groups
The College Pump
A vandalized pump, a fumbled swearing-in, and lessons about life from Professor John H. Finley