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Beasts of the Big Screen
“We wanted to see dinosaurs in places we’ve never seen them before.” It’s not the sort of mission statement you hear every day, especially since the creatures in question have been extinct for millions of years. But Emily Carmichael ’04 is talking about …
Issue: July-August 2022
Rolling Along
Before the Harvard football team kicked off the school’s 142nd gridiron season, coach Tim Murphy’s toughest foe was a familiar one: his 2014 squad, one of the greatest in Crimson history. This year, after all, could not end any better than last year’s …
Issue: November-December 2015
Harvard’s Sexual-Assault Problem
On September 21 , Harvard released the results of a sexual-conduct survey conducted among its undergraduate, graduate, and professional-school students during the spring of 2015. The results—echoing those from the 26 other private and public Association …
Issue: November-December 2015
Off the Shelf
Why We Vote, by Owen M. Fiss, LL.B. ’64 (Oxford, $27.95). Yale’s Sterling Professor of Law emeritus argues that the commitment to democracy is embedded within the Constitution—and secured by citizens’ right to vote, have those votes counted equally, and …
Issue: May-June 2024
Yo-Yo Ma Is Kennedy Center Honorand
Yo-Yo Ma ’76, D.Mus. ’91, the internationally acclaimed cellist, will receive a 2011 Kennedy Center Honor on December 4, along with singer Barbara Cook, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and actress Meryl Streep , Ar.D. ’10. Ma, …
Reviving Black Classical Music
In the mid-1850s, a blind, enslaved boy sat down at his owner’s piano in Columbus, Georgia. After mimicking the pieces he’d heard others play, “Blind Tom” Wiggins started composing classical music. A few years later, when Wiggins was eight, his owner …
Issue: November-December 2023
Making Allston Housing (More) Affordable
A January 22 public hearing to discuss the construction of affordable homes at a Harvard-donated site between Seattle and Windom streets in Allston opened with stark numbers. “There are about 9,144 total housing units in Allston” began Roxanna Zahedi of …
Harvard and MIT Sue to Overturn Order Banning International Students from Online Learning in Residence
Harvard and MIT this morning filed suit to prevent the federal government from enforcing a policy announced on July 6 that would prohibit international students from studying in the United States if their institutions offer only online instruction as …
Looking for the Real Stan Lee
Sometime in the mid-1980s, comics, a centuries-old art form, became legitimate. Prompted by a sudden influx of adult-themed and thematically heavy works like Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen , critics, seemingly with one …
Issue: March-April 2022
Harvard Management Company Leader Takes Medical Leave
The University announced this morning that Stephen Blyth, president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company—which invests the endowment assets—is taking a temporary medical leave of absence, effective immediately. Blyth assumed his …
Football 2019: Yale 50, Harvard 43
For Yale , this one makes up for ’68. Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game at the Yale Bowl was an instant classic, so spectacular and epic from start to finish that it even overshadowed—arguably—an onfield halftime protest that delayed the action for the better …
A Melting World
Photographs by David Arnold and H. Bradford Washburn The breathtaking aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers shot by H. Bradford Washburn Jr. ’33, A.M. ’60, L.H.D. ’75, during a lifetime of exploratory cartography captured a frozen wilderness that …
Issue: May-June 2006
Former Overseer Diana Nelson ’84 Named to the Harvard Corporation
Diana L. Nelson ’84 will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced on Monday. Her term of office begins officially on July 1. Nelson has previously co-chaired the College Fund, served on the Radcliffe Institute’s dean’s …
Harvard Capital Campaign Crosses $7-Billion Mark
The University announced today that The Harvard Campaign— launched publicly three Septembers ago with $2.8 billion given or pledged toward a $6.5-billion goal—had secured gifts or commitments totaling “more than $7 billion” as of this past June 30, the …
Presidential Portrait
On the chill, blustery afternoon of May 1, a piece of Harvard’s living history lit up the Faculty Room in University Hall. The occasion was the unveiling of the portrait of Neil L. Rudenstine, who served as the University’s twenty-sixth president from …
Issue: July-August 2006