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Finding Harlem
Vera Ingrid Grant , director of Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African-American Art , notes that the name “Harlem” evokes many different visions. Some people recall the landmarks central to the Harlem Renaissance, like the Apollo Theater …
Going Global, Gradually
The mid October announcement of Harvard Global Institute (HGI) and a “University-wide effort…to create a globalization strategy” elicited both a sense of promise and some puzzlement, perhaps in equal measure. The University news release observed that …
Victor Clay
On Victor Clay’ s twenty-first birthday, in 1984, came a knock at the door. “You want to be a deputy sheriff? Be downtown in two hours.” The Olympics were coming to Los Angeles, his future wife had taken a corporate job, and this was how Clay, who’d been …
Issue: September-October 2022
Strokes of Genius
Traditionally, Harvard has not been known as a golf power. The school’s most significant figure in the sport (if you don’t count Bobby Jones ’24 , who didn’t tee it up for the Crimson) arguably is Edward S. Stimpson II ’27, two-time captain of the golf …
Issue: September-October 2016
Underpinning Public Service
The University today announced a $15-million gift, from Eric M. Mindich ’88 and Stacey Mindich, to support public-service-oriented experiential learning in undergraduate courses and a fellowship program for College students interested in public service. …
Commencement Confetti
Where They’ll Work The Crimson ’s senior survey regularly shows the preponderance of graduates who join the workforce opting for jobs in finance, the tech industry, and consulting, no matter the exhortations to public service, teaching, and so on. This …
Issue: July-August 2024
At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum
This is the fourth installment in Harvard Magazine ’s new series, “At Home with Harvard,” a guide to what to read, watch, and listen to while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and spring …
The Man in the Top Hat
One of my favorite parts of Commencement is the tall man in the top hat. For many who attend Harvard’s graduation, the Commencement afternoon speaker is the main attraction. Audience members know that, if they brave the heat of the Cambridge spring and …
Creative Ventures
If any place exemplifies the pleasures of shopping locally, it’s Ouimille. The stores, in Cambridge and Boston, feel like a creative fête, a 24/7 kaleidoscopic fashion week array of audacious clothing and accessories. It’s a creative environment that …
Issue: November-December 2024
A Far Cry Nominated for Grammy Award
The debut album from Crier Records, the record label of the chamber orchestra A Far Cry ( profiled in our January/February issue ), has been nominated for a Grammy Award. Dreams and Prayers is the only member of its category, Best Chamber Music/Small …
“This Entire Campus Belongs to You”
Sade Abraham’s timing could not have been better. When she arrived at the Graduate School of Education for a one-year master’s program in 2017, she began inquiring about what Harvard does to support first-generation and low-income students. The first in …
Is the Law a Creature of Corporations?
How have corporations influenced the way law is taught, practiced, and discussed, as well as the very legal system itself? At a January 27-28 Harvard Law School conference, critics of contemporary law—students, attorneys, legal commentators, and public …
Radcliffe Institute Dean Appointed
President Drew Faust on April 28 appointed Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz, a Harvard faculty member since 1986, to the deanship of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS). Grosz has been serving as interim dean since July …
Doctoral Director
Allan M. Brandt became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), on January 1. A historian of science, Brandt holds a joint appointment as Kass professor of the history of medicine at Harvard …
Issue: March-April 2008
Workers and Wages
At a time of national concern about stagnating incomes, rising inequality, and middle-class malaise, the University confronted contentious issues with its lowest-paid workers throughout the autumn, yielding the first strike in more than three decades; a …
Marina N. Bolotnikova , John S. Rosenberg
Issue: January-February 2017