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“Our Planet in Microcosm”
US. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Nicholas Burns addressed the 659 members of the Harvard Kennedy School’s class of 2024 at their Class Day on May 22, bearing a message of hope. Amid a litany of challenges facing this generation of …
History Minted
The loss of the coins focused attention on their real value to Harvard. "Made of silver and bronze as well as gold, some of them rank as miniature masterpieces of classical art," Professor David Gordon Mitten had said on the day of the robbery. On the …
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EVs " Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle? ” (September-October, page 9) certainly took a glass-half-empty approach. To suggest that some people are better off burning gasoline if they care about the environment is dangerously short-sighted. How are …
Issue: November-December 2022
Stephen Blyth Resigns from Harvard Management Company
The University announced that Stephen Blyth, president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) since the beginning of 2015, has resigned. He went on medical leave in late May , as reported. The personnel transition comes at a critical time: the …
David Miliband to Address Kennedy School Commencement
David Miliband , former U.K. foreign secretary and now president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC)—an organization that provides aid to victims of conflict and disaster—will deliver the Graduation Address to the Harvard Kennedy School …
A Gift of Munch Artworks
A bequest from Philip A. Straus ’37 and his wife Lynn G. Straus of 62 prints and two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) has made the Harvard Art Museums’ collection of that artist’s work “one of the largest and most significant” in the …
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
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, …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Fresh Takes on the Caribbean
The multimedia exhibition “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today,” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, through February 25, opens with a bold tapestry. From across the room, Suchitra Mattai’s 2022 An Ocean Cradle could be a …
Issue: January-February 2024