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Natural Winter Wonders, Mass Audubon
Layer up and get outside for a series of winter walks with Mass Audubon. The conservation organization has 60 scenic sanctuaries, from the Berkshire Mountains to the Atlantic Coast, many of which offer year-round events for adults and families. Check the …
Issue: January-February 2022
“The Art, the Play, and the Rigor”
During her first week of teaching at Harvard, the flutist Claire Chase was arrested while blocking traffic on Massachusetts Avenue—part of a protest last September prompted by the Trump administration’s announcement that it would end the Deferred Action …
Issue: May-June 2018
Atticus Lish ’93 Wins PEN/Faulkner Award
Atticus Lish ’93 has been named the winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner award, which recognizes works of fiction by American authors. Preparation for the Next Life tells the love story of a Chinese Muslim immigrant and an Iraq war veteran, who meet at a food …
The Roman Empire’s Cosmopolitan Frontier
At its peak , the Roman Empire stretched from North Africa to northern Britain and was home to perhaps a quarter of the world’s population. The early Empire’s well-documented center in Rome, a vibrant hub of trade and communication, drew an ethnically …
Sunlight and Shadow
Harvard’s 372nd Commencement was perfect . But for a brief shower Wednesday evening, the sun shone throughout the week. Thursday morning, May 25, The Day, was cool enough to lend perfect comfort to the many thousands of people who found themselves clothed …
Issue: July-August 2023
Curricle, the Course Catalog Matrix
Harvard’s course offerings used to take the form of thick paper catalogs, filled with numbers and descriptions of the thousands of classes available in the curriculum each semester. In 1990, the University began offering its current online catalog …
Spirited Celebrations
Temperatures are dipping, snow is (almost) falling, and the holiday season is just around the corner. There are so many opportunities for exploring, toasting, and even giving back throughout the Cambridge area—whether you’re ready to raise a glass with a …
Issue: November-December 2022
Between Harvard and St. Louis
On the day of a summer 2019 car-wash fundraiser for the R.C. Striders, a junior track team based in St. Louis, almost everyone from the 20-person squad spent more than five hours in the sweltering sun. They’d qualified for the Junior Olympics and needed …
Issue: May-June 2021
A Victorious Vessel
Boston’s iconic USS Constitution, a 1790s warship that is the oldest active-duty boat in the world, is often taken for granted. But a recent stroll through the USS Constitution and its museum revealed a surprisingly fresh and interesting experience for …
Issue: September-October 2024
Bringing Minds and Money to Bear on Teaching
Six days before the public launch of The Harvard Campaign, in which the University will “foreground” pedagogy and learning , according to President Drew Faust, two news announcements underscored the scope of that initiative: Provost Alan M. Garber …
Major League Dreams
Among the children chasing foul balls, the firetrucks serving as a stadium gate, and the players devouring hot dogs 15 minutes before first pitch, Jay Driver ’24 treated his final game in the Cape Cod Baseball League just like any other. For that June 29 …
Earl Brown
On December 22, 2020, Earl Brown ’24 became Harvard’s latest major-league baseball player. That would be Earl Brown, class of 1924 , a star pitcher who went on to pitch for the New York Lincoln Giants of the Eastern Colored League. In December 2020, Major …
Issue: March-April 2022
First-Year International Students Won't Be Allowed on Campus This Fall
First-year international students will not be allowed to come to campus this year because of the federal visa restrictions announced earlier this month (over which Harvard and MIT sued the federal government), College dean Rakesh Khurana wrote in an email …
Humans on Horseback
Throughout much of Eurasia, a single pastoralist culture that thrived between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago left behind an indelible genetic imprint still detectable in modern populations from India to Russia to Western Europe. How could a band of animal …
Nieman Fellow Eliza Griswold Wins Pulitzer Prize
Eliza Griswold, a 2007 Nieman Fellow and 2016-17 Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction on Monday for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America . In the book, …