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Stephanie Gil Helps Robots Work Better Together
Stephanie Gil’s first exposure to robot teams didn’t even happen on this planet. During her freshman year at Cornell, she interned with NASA and participated in the agency’s Mars Exploration Rover mission. NASA sent two robots named “Spirit” and …
Rethinking Libraries for a Digital Future
Harvard is rethinking libraries, librarians, and collection priorities, as described in this magazine’s May-June feature article Gutenberg 2.0. And it is actively digitizing its holdings to make them available to audiences within and beyond the Harvard …
Grinding Out Lawyers—by Grinding Down Students
Judge Learned Hand recalled that his Harvard Law School professors taught him the Spartan ethic which helped make him a legal giant. “In the universe of truth,” he said in 1958, during a public lecture, “they lived by the sword: they asked no quarter of …
Issue: January-February 2021
Klarman Hall Breaks Ground
Under a dazzling spring sky, with just a hint of cirrus on the horizon—temperatures in the 70s, shadbushes and weeping cherries in full bloom, and leaves bursting to unfurl from every bush and tree on campus—Harvard Business School (HBS) this afternoon …
Pudding Pots & Parody
Five years after the founding of the Hasty Pudding Club in 1795, in the dorm room of Nymphas Hatch, A.B. 1797, the then-secret society staged its first performance: a courtroom drama in which a club member was charged with “insolence.” This proved so …
Issue: January-February 2020
Football: Harvard 53, Brown 27
Memo to the Brown University football team: When it’s the third quarter, you’re facing a fourth down and 50 yards to go, and you snap the ball out of the end zone for a safety that raises your deficit to 39-0—it might not be your night. In a game that was …
"I can no longer support the president"
Conrad K. Harper resigned from Harvard’s senior governing board on July 14. In an interview following the official announcement two weeks later (“Harper concludes service on Harvard Corporation”), he said, “I have reached the judgment that I can no longer …
Issue: September-October 2005
An Auspicious View
The effect takes a moment to sink in: a double-sided folding fan, opulently painted in gold, silver, white, and azurite blue. On one side, the instantly recognizable profile of Mount Fuji, with its long, snow-covered slopes sweeping up toward the …
Issue: November-December 2020
A Net-Zero-Energy Victorian Home Makes History
Earth Day encourages all of us to reflect on how we can contribute to building a greener, cleaner environment. Cambridge is known worldwide as a center for innovation of all kinds, including net-zero-energy construction—the Harvard Graduate School of …
A Cultural Escape
Cape Cod summons the quintessential summer vacation—sun, sand, and seafood—but also offers historical and cultural attractions that can be especially savored during the less-crowded shoulder seasons. Among these is Highfield Hall, a restored 1878 mansion …
Issue: May-June 2021
The Upward Mobility Problem
“When I started, I couldn’t even drive a stick, and now I’m shifting a ten-speed,” says Gary Jones with the sort of smile you hear before you see it. From eight in the morning to about four in the afternoon, the 31-year-old Jones is on the road, training …
Issue: May-June 2022
Harvard Graduates Leave No One Behind
THROUGHOUT HIS TWO DEPLOYMENTS TO AFGHANISTAN as an Air Force officer, Phil Caruso, J.D.-M.B.A. ’19, worked closely with an Afghan informant who collected information on behalf of the United States, risking his life in the process. “He was the most …
Issue: May-June 2022
From Punk to the Silver Screen
As an editor at Mademoiselle magazine in New York, Carter Burwell’s mother used to chase down writers like Truman Capote and Dylan Thomas to get their overdue pages. She loved going to jazz clubs and staying till closing time. When the musicians went …
Issue: January-February 2022
Cambridge Scholars
Four seniors have won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships to study at Cambridge University during the 2014-2015 academic year. Eric Cervini, of Round Rock, Texas, and Lowell House, a history concentrator, will be the Lionel De Jersey Harvard Scholar at …
Issue: July-August 2014
Decanal Duo
Kathleen McCartney Photograph by Dina Konovalovia/A Dream Picture Kathleen McCartney , Lesser professor in early childhood development and since July 2005 acting dean of Harvard Graduate School of Education, was named to the deanship on May 16 by …
Issue: July-August 2006