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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.
Prineha Narang (right), assistant professor of computational materials science, works with a student at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Photograph by Eliza Grinnell, SEAS
The Office of Technology Development hosts a Palo Alto venture-capital night for Harvard startups.
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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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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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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.
Photograph by Gary Alpert
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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Pink Cactus
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.
Stuart Schreiber sits “where I go to talk to my mother,” by the memorial paver that he had installed for her at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway.
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A scientist discovers his own family’s secrets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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November-December 2015
Letters
A letter from the editor
Readers respond to articles on impact investing, “Cowboy” doctors, Gen Ed, and more.
A letter from President Faust
The College Pump
Henry D. Rogers performing as Grandfather with Annie Gaybis in 2009
Photograph by Mike Erdelyi Photography
Nutcracker notes, and a memorable blackout
Treasure
Cuban expatriate volunteers shown wading ashore during the U.S. assault. Those in their own clothes are unretouched—but peers wearing U.S. calvary tops have been rendered as whites.
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University
When Americans occupied Cuba, 1898-1902
In this Issue
Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Harvard’s greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere
Max Beckmann, Self-Portrait in Tuxedo, 1927. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund, BR41.37. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
Forensic pioneer Joseph T. Walker (at left) collects blood and scraps of flesh from the bathtub drain of a 1936 murder victim.
Photograph by Leslie Jones/Courtesy of the Boston Public Library
Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952
Daniel Aaron
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
Letters
A letter from the editor
Readers respond to articles on impact investing, “Cowboy” doctors, Gen Ed, and more.
A letter from President Faust
Right Now
In vibrant Times Square, Broadway plays and musicals compete to become the next megahit.
Photograph by Christian Baitg Schreiweis/iStock
Derek Miller hopes data will shake up the field of theater history.
Thermal maps (right) superimposed on this termite mound show contrasting temperature profiles for night (left half) and day (right half).
Photographs courtesy of Hunter King and Sam Ocko
Physicists look into the function of towering termite mounds.
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Measuring the economic growth of nations is not enough, says Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.
Harvard Squared
Brad Shur performing in his new show, Cardboard Explosion!
Photograph courtesy of the Puppet Showplace Theater
Contemporary takes on puppetry in Brookline, Massachusetts
Lorraine O’Grady
Photograph by Elia Alba
Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers at the Carpenter Center
Photograph courtesy of the Arnold Arboretum
Things to do and see when it's cold out
Stan Munro’s "toothpicked" version of St. Basil’s Cathedral, in Moscow
Photograph by Toni M. Horrace
Stan Munro’s toothpick designs are on display at the Fuller Craft Museum.
John Harvard's Journal
Photograph by Stu Rosner
Josep Lluís Sert’s International Style icon gets a half-century exterior toning and face lift.
For Harvard, the results point in particular to a problem in the College.
Jon Hanson
Photograph by Stu Rosner
A law professor plumbs social problems.
An update on the Harvard Campaign
Illustration by Mark Steele
From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine
As a 5.8 percent return boosts the endowment to $37.6 billion, changes aim to address persistent underperformance.
Freshman Convocation
Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Public Affairs and Communications
Morning Prayers and Freshman Convocation themes, economists’ exodus, health benefits round two, and reengineering admissions
Rendering by Behnisch Architekten
University news briefs: retaining recruits, online learning, appointments, awards, and more
Illustration by David Wheeler
The Undergraduate contemplates books in a digital age.
Having picked off a Brown pass, defensive back Asante Gibson—wearing his team’s new, Nike-designed home uniform—heads goalward during the Crimson’s second-quarter onslaught.
Harvard Athletic Communications
Formidable early-season football
Shilpa Tummala
Photograph by Jim Harrison
Post-surgery, a top athlete reestablishes herself.
Montage
Hulsey in her studio, with book presses behind her
Portrait by Stu Rosner
A printmaker plays with the systems and structures of language.
Benjamin Scheuer playing one of the six instruments he uses in the course of his one-man musical, The Lion
Photograph by Matthew Murphy/Courtesy of Benjamin Scheuer
In his poignant one-man musical, Benjamin Scheuer finds his roar.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker
American higher education and its discontents
1870s Japan: a hand-tinted albumen print by Raimund von Stillfried showing two women posing
Photograph from the book
Recent books with Harvard connections
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Alumni
Adam Freudenheim
Photograph courtesy of Pushkin Publishing
A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.
Jordan Weiers ’16 and Gabriela D.M. "Gaby" Ruiz-Colón ’16
Photograph by Juliette Lynch
Harvard seniors honored for improving House life
Top from left: Thomas E. Blamey, Peter A. Carfagna, and Robert P. Fox Jr. Bottom row from left: Joan Keenan, Robert M. Kraft, and Nancy Sinsabaugh
The 2015 Harvard Alumni Association Award winners
Top row from left: William L. Eisenhart, Tanya Ryk Friedman, and Anita Warren Fritze. Bottom row from left: Marsha Hirano-Nakanishi, Meg Streeter Lauck, Garrett Scott Olmsted, and David F. Pinto
Harvard alumni honored for volunteer admissions interviewing
The College Pump
Henry D. Rogers performing as Grandfather with Annie Gaybis in 2009
Photograph by Mike Erdelyi Photography
Nutcracker notes, and a memorable blackout
Treasure
Cuban expatriate volunteers shown wading ashore during the U.S. assault. Those in their own clothes are unretouched—but peers wearing U.S. calvary tops have been rendered as whites.
Photograph courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University
When Americans occupied Cuba, 1898-1902