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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 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
Urban Adventure Quest, Boston
Exercise body and mind this winter through team-based scavenger hunts in Boston. One covers landmarks along the Freedom Trail, and the other Boston Harbor; both pose puzzling clues and questions. Inspired by The Amazing Race television series (minus the …
Issue: November-December 2020
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
“The Ingenuity of an Architect”
At 11 years old, growing up in Detroit, Kimberly Dowdell had an epiphany. She remembers walking downtown one day in the early 1990s amid abandoned buildings, graffiti, and broken windows. “People were living on the streets, people suffering in one way or …
Issue: July-August 2024
Historic Basketball Victory
In the biggest basketball game Harvard has ever played, the Crimson men made history with a convincing win over Princeton, 79-67. The Tigers came to Cambridge with only one Ivy loss, to Brown, while Harvard had sustained two league losses on the road …
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, …
Cryptic Puzzle: “#2”
Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution "#2" solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically.) Itai Pines – Portland, OR Stephen Throop – Grover, NC Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY …
Returning to Celebrate, and Eat
Though Commencement Week has been postponed, there will come a time when alumni can once again gather on campus for past-due celebrations. It’s nice, then, that Boston and Cambridge are home to many restaurants that make great places to gather and eat—all …
Issue: May-June 2020
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
Academia’s Absence from Homelessness
Harvard ’s Initiative on Health and Homelessness (IHH) is a rarity in the academic world—the first of its kind based at a school of public health, and one of only a handful of similar research centers at universities around the country. Almost all of them …