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A Laboratory for Mixing Art and Science
To David Edwards , McKay professor of the practice of biomedical engineering, the intersection of art and science represents a gold mine of creativity. Edwards has written a book about the potential for transformation and innovation inherent in this …
Collaboration on Climate Change
Continuing a busy visit to the People’s Republic of China—following an alumni and Harvard Campaign event on Sunday and a meeting with President Xi Jinping on Monday—President Drew Faust gave a Tuesday morning address on the role of universities in …
Making the Public Record Public
Generally, librarians are tasked with protecting books. But over the past decade, Harvard Law School (HLS) librarians have sent tens of thousands of books to the literary guillotine, severing their spines and running their pages through scanners. In …
Kerry Washington Named Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year
Kerry Washington has been chosen to receive the 2016 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award, honoring a “talented and socially engaged film, TV, and stage actress who keeps breaking barriers in Hollywood,” the Harvard student group announced on January 6 . …
Harvard Law Weighs In
As legal education and the profession face substantial change—with law graduates’ careers developing in increasingly varied, often global, contexts—Harvard Law School (HLS) kicked off its “Campaign for the Third Century” on October 23, becoming the last …
Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2016
A Call for Precision
On January 21 , 2017, millions of people gathered across the country for the Women’s March—at that point, the largest single-day protest in American history. Amid disputes about the number of participants, Jeremy Pressman, a professor at the University of …
Negatively Curved Crystals
In Norman Juster’s children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth , the land of infinity can be reached by following a line drawn on the ground for all eternity, then taking a left at the end. Fortunately, for viewers in a hurry, an exhibition now on display on …
Harvard Headlines: Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on Healthcare, and More
The New Yorker in recent weeks has been full of items with Crimson connections. Last week's issue (dated February 1) had two: Architecture critic Paul Goldberger's glowing review of the work of Jeanne Gang , M.Arch. ’93, including the new Aqua apartment …
Extracurriculars
Seasonal The Farmers’ Market at Harvard www.dining.harvard.edu/flp/ag_market.html These outdoor markets emphasizing fresh, local foods and regional purveyors run through October 25. In Cambridge: Tuesdays, noon-6 p.m. Corner of Oxford and Kirkland …
Issue: September-October 2011
A Thumb on the Scale
In February 2004 , when Harvard allotted an additional $2 million per year in scholarship funds for undergraduates from families with incomes of $60,000 or less, the College estimated that 73.9 percent of matriculants came from the highest socioeconomic …
Issue: May-June 2005
Thomas Starr King: Protector of the Union, and Yosemite
He was the eldest son of a shoemaker turned Universalist preacher. When he was 15, his father died, but his father’s message, “the gospel of inclusion”—that God loves us all, asking us to do the same for others—became his life mission. He became the sole …
Issue: July-August 2021
Precedent-Setting Presidential Search
The search for a successor to President Lawrence H. Summers will involve expanded outreach to the Harvard community. In a March 30 news release, the University announced that, consistent with past practice, the Corporation had formed a search committee …
Issue: May-June 2006
Betting on Lookout Farm
As a serial entrepreneur, who had founded some 30 businesses, Steven Belkin, M.B.A. ’71, was primed to find out if his Lookout Farm in Natick, Massachusetts, could succeed not in spite of the pandemic, but because of it. “‘Open an outdoor restaurant?’” he …
Issue: September-October 2021
News Briefs
Toward a Fossil-Fuel-Free Future President Drew Faust announced on February 6 that Harvard would “seek to become fossil fuel free” by 2050—meeting energy needs sustainably and setting goals for purchased services that “rely as little as possible on fossil …
John S. Rosenberg , Marina N. Bolotnikova
Issue: May-June 2018
Chris Pratt Is Man of the Year
After announcing last week that Amy Poehler will be Woman of the Year , yet another Parks and Recreation actor—comedian Chris Pratt—will take center stage in Farkas Hall as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year, the group announced today. “We vehemently deny …