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"Secrecy": Screening This Wednesday
Secrecy , a documentary directed by Pellegrino University Professor Peter Galison and Arnheim lecturer on filmmaking Robb Moss, screens on Wednesday evening, February 18, at Austin Hall, Harvard Law School (HLS)—complete with free popcorn and soda, …
A Shift in the Created Order
Adapted by the author from the Convocation Address she delivered to the Divinity School community on September 19, 2005, at the opening of the academic year, half a century after the first female students matriculated there. The admission of women to …
Issue: May-June 2006
Tall Tales
In her first book , Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow—offered fix-it tips for "the repair-impaired." Cohen's second book— The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, with a December 2008 release date—promises "a …
A Potter’s Practice
In a quiet corner of Harvard’s ceramics lab in Allston, buzzing with activity on a Friday afternoon, artist Ashton Keen is in her studio, examining a clay teacup she’s recently made. A potter’s wheel sits at her elbow, and several large buckets of clay, …
A Robust Decade at the Business School
Kim B. Clark’s move from Allston to Idaho—he became president of Brigham Young University-Idaho on August 1, in response to a call from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—concluded his nearly 10-year deanship at Harvard Business …
Issue: September-October 2005
Report to Readers
January 2023 In challenging times —pandemic and inflation, polarized politics, the horrors of war in Europe— Harvard’s work matters more than ever . Discovering the biological mechanisms that lead to novel vaccines. Exploring the histories and cultures …
Issue: January-February 2023
Brevia
Nobel Honorands Furer professor of economics Oliver Hart shared the prize in economic sciences with MIT’s Bengt Holmström for their work on contract theory. Hart’s insight was on incomplete contracts: a contract cannot possibly predict every scenario that …
Issue: January-February 2017
Jens Meierhenrich
A very long bookshelf in Jens Meierhenrich’s Harvard office holds a complete transcript of the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals, in 42 volumes. “I had to break the bank to buy them,” he says. But these are essential references for the German-born, …
Issue: July-August 2006
More Housing in Allston
At a public meeting on November 30, representatives from developer Samuels & Associates and Elkus Manfredi Architects presented revised plans for a 274-unit residential apartment building at 180 Western Avenue in Allston. The site lies at the intersection …
The College within the University
D. Ronald Daniel : There’s a very special governance issue at Harvard. That is the role of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] in the whole University. Henry obviously can speak to this, but there was a time in Neil’s era, for example—and Neil had …
Issue: May-June 2006
Military Recruiting Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that the federal government can cut off funding to universities that limit or ban military recruiting on their campuses. The 8-0 opinion (Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. did not participate) upheld the Solomon …
Issue: May-June 2006
Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter
August Kleinzahler will be the poet, and Linda Greenhouse the orator, at the Phi Beta Kappa Literary (PBK) Exercises—the first formal community event of Commencement week, and in many respects the intellectual core of the festivities for College seniors …
Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves
Leslie Jamison ’04 spent the summer after her freshman year at home in Los Angeles with her jaw wired shut. A 20-foot fall from a vine in Costa Rica broke her joint hinge; as she healed after surgery, the wire held her bones in place. For two months, she …
Issue: March-April 2025
Keep Africa on Agenda, Rice Advises
Although the U.S. government has momentous and urgent problems to confront—the reverberating shock waves of a global financial crisis; continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—it should not let relations with Africa slip from its list of priorities, …
A Living Treasure in Boston
With 281 acres of thriving trees, flowers, and bushes from around the globe, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum is so much more than a walk in the park. The historic oasis was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace, and today still …
Issue: July-August 2020